LinkedIn and Your Career

I was talking to one of my colleagues today about the need to be on LinkedIn.  I compared it to "googling" a retail establishment prior to making a visit decision.  If an organization does not have a website, it is almost as if they don't exist.  To LinkedIn's credit, it seems as if this has become true for people too.
  
Susan Adams writes for Forbes:

Now that LinkedIn is 12 years old and has more than 300 million members, most professionals have figured out how to set up a profile and build connections. But with ever-increasing numbers of hiring managers and recruiters using the site to hunt for job candidates and potential employers routinely checking LinkedIn before they make hiring decisions…

She goes on to describe Seven Ways to Make LinkedIn Help You Find a Job.