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3 ways to use LinkedIn to grow your own start-up

A surprising number of college students don’t use the professional-social network. Here’s why that’s a mistake — especially for young entrepreneurs.

As if making the transition from student life to the working world wasn’t hard enough.

In March, the unemployment rate among 18- to 29-year-olds was 11.7 percent, more than four percentage points higher than the national average of 7.6 percent, according to the millennial-advocacy group Generation Opportunity.

But here’s an interesting twist: Nearly half of the college students surveyed in a new report on millennials out today aren’t using the professional-networking site, LinkedIn. That survey called “The Student Employment Study,” which was produced in by Gen-Y research firm Millennial Branding and AfterCollege, an online career network for college students and recent grads, found that 46 percent of students don’t use LinkedIn.

…to read this article in full, visit leading US entrepreneurial resource entrepreneur.com

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