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Your LinkedIn Profile: How to Optimize it for Career and Business Success - Careers news from Channel Insider

LinkedIn is the go-to social networking community for business. Sure, there’s Facebook and Twitter to stay connected with business contacts, but LinkedIn is the most professional of the big three social networking sites.

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