{"id":3149,"date":"2012-04-23T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2012\/04\/23\/procurement-linkedin\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:47:08","slug":"procurement-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/procurement-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement &amp; LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201c<span style=\"font-size: small\">How Procurement Pros Should Use LinkedIn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Though many of my PurchTips articles are written in bullet form for easy digestion, I opted to write this one in paragraph form.\u00a0 However, I thought that I could use this blog to communicate \u2013 and even expand \u2013 on the theme of the article using bullet points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">So, here are some \u201cbulletized\u201d ideas\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Why use LinkedIn?\u00a0 To accomplish the typical \u201c<\/span>end goals of social networking\u201d as related to procurement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To get a job;<\/li>\n<li>To learn from others; 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