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Question: How do you get genuine, personalised recommendations on LinkedIn?
Answer: Here are 4 tips to follow:
1. Make personal requests for a recommendation via phone or face to face before sending the LinkedIn request for recommendation
2. Request results and benefits driven recommendations
3. Ask people to include comments on what they feel makes you different or unique
4. Get into the habit of giving your contacts personalised recommendations (without wanting anything back)
Have you any more tips or suggestions…? Feel free to add them in the comments box below.
Ask that the recommendation include how the person knows you - as a former colleague, professional association peer, supervisor, mentor, customer, etc. That contributes to the CONTEXT of the comments about your unique value and your accomplishments in the recommendation.
Sital - this is a wonderfully concise and informative thread!
Posted by: Susan Guarneri | February 27, 2010 at 03:24 PM
Susan, great point, yes the 'context' is very key. thanks for the addition!
Posted by: Sital | February 27, 2010 at 08:50 PM
Most of the time people will respond positively to you invitation (if written as mentioned above), once they read your profile at LinkedIn. Particularly if you are networking within your own industry. Therefore make sure to professionally complete your profile before sending "cold call" invitations. So the other person can see value in connecting with you.
Posted by: Imran M. Ismail | March 03, 2010 at 01:24 PM