{"id":3634,"date":"2014-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2014\/05\/06\/linkedin-introduction-requests-what-not-to-do\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T00:00:00","slug":"linkedin-introduction-requests-what-not-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2014\/05\/06\/linkedin-introduction-requests-what-not-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn introduction requests: what NOT to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">LinkedIn is a very powerful tool in your professional toolbox. One of LinkedIn&#8217;s most valuable features is that it helps you visualize who you know that knows someone you want to know. (Got that?) Let&#8217;s say you applied for a job with XYZ company, and LinkedIn shows you that one of your 1st degree connections knows a manager at XYZ company (your 2nd degree connection). With this knowledge in hand, LinkedIn allows you to ask your 1st degree connection to introduce you to the XYZ manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">But should you ask for this introduction? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">This is the topic of a recent <em>Muse<\/em> article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/the-linkedin-message-that-seriously-annoys-your-contacts\">The LinkedIn Message That (Seriously) Annoys Your Contacts<\/a>. Check it out for advice on navigating this murky situation with grace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn is a very powerful tool in your professional toolbox. One of LinkedIn&#8217;s most valuable features is that it helps you visualize who you know that knows someone you want to know. (Got that?) Let&#8217;s say you applied for a job with XYZ company, and LinkedIn shows you that one of your 1st degree connections&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30,75,78,41,63],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-path-to-career-resources","tag-etiquette","tag-linkedin","tag-networking","tag-social-media"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/Slide1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}