Your Career Magazine Issue 2

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Alex Pirouz:

LinkedIn to Business Success W

hen talking about social media and networking for business, most of us immediately think of Facebook and Instagram, but how many of us are utilising LinkedIn as well? For many years, LinkedIn has been seen, for the most part, as a recruitment platform. You could set up a profile, upload your resume and hope to get noticed. However, just as the business world is evolving at a rapid rate of knots, as is LinkedIn. There is massive potential in this underused platform to excel your career – and Alex Pirouz is here to show you how.

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Alex has been an entrepreneur since the age of 13, having tried his hand (and unfortunately losing out on) four businesses by the age of 26. However, in true entrepreneurial spirit, Alex did not give up and was able to successfully scale and then sell his next two businesses. His passion for helping people evolved into his next venture, an advisory firm, where he learned the power of clever networking and relationship building through LinkedIn after a mentor suggested he take a closer look at the platform.


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