6 social networks to promote the personal brand and search for business contacts

Social networking can ruin careers (hello, photo in her underwear on the background of the carpet) and can improve, if properly manage their profiles and be able to find the right people.

Ulyana Tikhova

The former model, the current boom. Writes about startups, technology and fashion.

In this article, I collected site with the greatest concentration of useful business contacts. Deliberately not included in the list of LinkedIn: First, the network is blocked in Russia, and secondly, it does not need an introduction.

1. Viadeo

Lecture hall: 59 million registered usersWorld map of top professional networks.

Geography: North and South America, Europe, India and China.

Audience: there is no data.

Capabilities:

• Register may be experts, companies, HR-managers. Registration is free and available to all users.
• Get a profile with a beautiful visualization of the timeline.

• Send private messages, create public posts.
• Subscribe to companies and individuals.
• Receive an analyst on the profile, how many people a day watching who.
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• See ads for courses, educational programs, conferences, forums.
• Search for jobs.
• Connect the paid subscriptions: "Premium" - for 8.95 euros, "Freelance" - for 19.90 euros. Premium subscription enables you to view all visitor profiles, send messages to any users and raises the profile in search. Tariff "Freelance" allows you to promote their services and communicate with customers.
• Use applications for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry.

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Viadeo offres d'emplois & avis sur les entreprises

Developer: figaro Classifieds

Price: Free

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Viadeo

Developer: Viadeo

Price: Free

To be useful:

• Those who taught French or Chinese.
• Companies and HR-professionals who are looking for employees abroad.
• Professionals who want to work abroad, especially in France and China.
• Tariff "Freelance" helps users who want to provide services to foreign companies.

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2. "Professionaly.ru"

Lecture hall: 6,641,829 professionals 624 985 companies Professionaly.ru - business social network # 1 in Russia and CIS . But statistics can be inaccurate, one of the first page in Google for "Professionaly.ru" is called "Dead Souls social network" Professionaly.ru. ' "

Geography: there is no data. But the site has only Russian-language version, so it is assumed that the majority of users live in Russia.

Audience: 166 professionals from industries which are prevalent - is unknown. But the portal itself indicates what visitors use the resource:

• 23% - the acquisition of knowledge and learning;
• 17% - the development of communication;
• 16% - find a job;
• 14% - business communication;
• 13% - the promotion of finding customers.

Capabilities:

• Register can be professionals and companies. Registration is free and available to all users.
• Exchange private messages.
• Refer to the 46,032 communities in which you can find answers to business issues.
• Ask a question under the heading "Question - Answer".
• Maintain personal blogs in the user profile.
• Search for jobs and import them hh.ru. Be careful with the import of contacts: users complain that adding contacts leads to mass distribution with an invitation to the network. Perhaps, this bug has been fixed, but I am afraid to check.
• Use commercial services: advertise, buy courses. There are premium services to job seekers, businesses and recruiters.

To be useful:

• Specialists in different fields: the platform is no limit on the professions.
• For those who want to conduct business blog. Such a function is added to the profile, and the community is quite active.

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3. XING

Lecture hall: 5,230,000 Registered UsersXING demographics.

Geography: mainly Germany, Austria, Switzerland.

Audience: 23% - representatives of the service sector, 13% - industry, 9% - media, to 7% from IT, consulting, trade.

Capabilities:

• Register may be specialists of the company. Registration is free and available to all users.
• Subscribe to news of the company, people, events.
• Send private messages, create public posts.
• Search jobs with individual recommendations.

• Use paid features. Premium subscription allows you to see who was looking through your account, send messages to users not in the contact list, improved search.
• Use apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

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XING

Developer: New Work SE

Price: Free

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XING - Your jobs and careers network

Developer: New Work SE

Price: Free

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XING

Developer: developer

Price: Free

To be useful:

• To those who know German and looking for a job in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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4. E-xecutive.ru

Lecture hall: 310,000 registered usersE-xecutive.ru.

Geography: 79% of users from Russia, 21% - from Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, GermanyExecutive 2015: Project audience.

Audience: top managers and middle managers.

Capabilities:

• Register may be experts. Registration is free and available to all users, but each application runs moderation. Upon registration you subscribe to a mailing list of three. Without the consent of the newsletter you will not be registered. To register a company, publish the vacancy or information about the event, you need to contact representatives E-executive.ru.
• Get profile-rated.
• Send private messages, create public posts.
• Have access to good content from the community: interviews, case studies, articles.
• Search for jobs.
• Use a calendar of business events.
• Ask the expert in the section "Questions and Answers".
• Use commercial services, such as advertise.

To be useful:

• Managers.
• Those who are willing to share their experience with the community: their articles and book reviews can be added to the profile.
• Professionals who are seeking managerial positions.

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5. "My Circle"

Lecture hall: 66,362 specialist 30,912 companiesDistribution of monthly audience.

Geography: 84% of users from Russia, 5% - from Ukraine, 5% - from Belarus.

Audience: More than 50% of people working in sectors "of IT, Internet, telecommunications," "Marketing, Advertising, of PR", "Education" and "Finances, banks, investment."

Capabilities:

• Register can be professionals and employers. Registration is free and available to all users.
• Get the profile to which you can add letters of recommendation.
• Exchange private messages.
• Search for jobs.
• Use commercial services to employers (placement and promotion of jobs, help in selection of employees, access to the resume).

To be useful:

• Professionals, whose activities are connected with the IT-industry.
• Those who want to work in IT. Most vacancies for developers: 300 - for the back-end-of developers, 180 - for the front-end-of developers, 150 - for software developers.
• Companies and recruiters who are looking for specialists in the IT-industry.

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6. MYCO

Lecture hall: no data on experts and companies. More than 4000 professional events.

Geography: 29% - Ukraine, 19% - Russian, 15% - US 37% - other countries (Belarus, Germany, India, Canada, Turkey).

Composition: Experts from 29 industries and 56 sectors, who are interested in professional events. More accurate data are not available.

Capabilities:

• Register may be experts, companies and individual events: conferences, exhibitions, forums, congresses. Registration is free and available to all users. Profiles are structured according to the location. Most of the interface takes a card.

• Exchange private messages with members of the network, create group chats.
• Subscribe to company events and by industries and sectors.
• Conferences to use a special bracelet that works with MYCO and lets you share your contact details with a handshake.
• Use paid features for registered events: promotions in the search bracelets MYCO Band.
• Use apps for Android and iOS.

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MYCO

Developer: MYCO NETWORK

Price: Free

To be useful:

• Professionals from any industry. List wider than on other sites.
• Those who promote the company through professional activities.
• Event-managers, event-agencies.
• recently appeared network, and you have a chance to become one of the first users.

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Register at any of these networks free of charge, will take the strength of 5 minutes and increase the chances of finding a job and business contacts. Why not try?