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In this article primarily we will discuss in detail on the following topics:

1. What is LinkedIn?

2. Why is LinkedIn important even for college students

3. Tips and tricks to crack placements

4. How to build a good resume ?

5. How to crack interviews?

So, let's get started!!

1. What is LinkedIn? Why is it important?

LinkedIn is an online network for business professionals (that includes students, too! It's different than other social networking sites because it's designed specifically for professional networking -- finding a job, discovering sales leads, connecting with potential business partners.
93% of recruiters are using LinkedIn to find their future employees Almost 100% use to initially screen applicants

2. Why should college students be “on” LinkedIn?

First and foremost: To get a job/internship! And it’s your job is to make it easy for your recruiter to hire you, and to do that, you need to tell them how you can do the work they need you to do, and that you have the characteristics of their ideal employee.

Second: You’ll also grow your professional network and maintain a positive online presence that may help you in your future work or job search.

Now that you are already aware of the importance of LinkedIn, let's take a look at what are the priorities and important components of a good LinkedIn profile!!

Top fold Ensure your headline describes exactly who you are, including your specialties, and that you have a professional photo

Summary The first line should tell your reader who you are, what you want, and how they can contact you. After that, make sure your summary is more of a story that answers, “Tell me about yourself?” “Why do you do what you do?” and “Why do you love it?” Tell about your “Wow!” moment. Remember to describe the accomplishments you are most proud of.

Experience Make this functional - not chronological. Include relevant work and projects that describe your hands-on experience and makes them know you can do the work.

So, LinkedIn provides us different career opportunities to get placed in good companies.

Here are some of the qualities that companies look for in candidates while hiring them!!

Now that we know the qualities of candidates , this takes us to the next part of the article and that is about preparation for placements.

3. Tips and tricks to crack placements.

Here are some of the tips that can help you in your placement preparation:

1. Prepare Well for the Online Test

2. Improve your Quantitative Abilities and Maintain the Speed vs Accuracy Ratio.

3. Improve your Logical Reasoning skills

4. Good Command of the English language.

5. Practice Coding Questions Regularly.

6. Maintain an Updated LinkedIn Profile.

7. Prepare your Resume Well

Now , we know how should we apply to jobs and how to crack placements, but for cracking interviews and getting shortlisted for the tests, you will need a very good and ATS friendly resume.

4. How to build a good resume

Here are some of the tips that can help you build a very good and ATS friendly resume:

1. Look for keywords in the job postings and add appropriate keywords in your resume.

2. Review resume examples for your industry.

3. Make Your Resume Classic and Professional. It should be ideally of one page only.

4. Include only the most relevant information and put the most important information first.

5. Use active language.

6. Call attention to important achievements.

7. Proofread and edit

8. Decide whether you need unique resume for different jobs.

Now that you have a good resume and you are prepared for placement this brings us to the next segment and that is

5. How to crack Interviews?

1. Prepare your Introduction Well

2. Have a Good Knowledge of the Core Fundamental Subjects

3. Prepare your resume well for the interview.

4. Communicate what you think and know clearly and confidently to the interviewer without having any hesitation. Remember, confidence is one of the most important parameters checked in an interview.

5. Ask Relevant Questions to the Interviewer

6. Most important tip – Don’t be afraid of rejections

Here are some of the important Resources and links that will help you to build a good resume and in your interview preparation are:

a] https://www.careercup.com/resume b] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/commonly-asked-c-interview-questions-set-1/amp/?ref=rp c] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/category/interview-experiences/ d] https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/faangpath-simple-template/npsfpdqnxmbc e] https://www.overleaf.com/articles/yash-nagres-resume/bqqfshyxjgsh

Thanks for reading! Hope you find it helpful !!