Posting work on LinkedIn and his website helped Dhyey Mavani land an engineering job at LinkedIn. Sharing projects and personal stories online expanded his professional network and visibility. Mavani ...

Sending LinkedIn DMs—the digital version of cold-calling—can come across as pushy and is becoming a much-less-effective strategy for job seekers. Luckily, there is so much more that LinkedIn is ...

This is what LinkedIn was built for. Few things in life are more fulfilling than the opportunity to celebrate whichever corporate fiend you’ve signed your soul away to. Whether you’re working for ...

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dhyey Mavani, a 21-year-old software engineer at LinkedIn, based in Sunnyvale, CA. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I moved ...