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'Pantsuit aficionado': Hillary Clinton joins professional social network LinkedIn
Hillary Clinton has joined professional social networking site LinkedIn. After all, running for president is the toughest job interview in the world (probably)
This might just be the toughest job application in the world.
So it’s perhaps no surprise that Hillary Clinton has just joined LinkedIn, the social network for professionals.
The 2016 candidate describes herself as a: ‘wife, mother, grandmother, women and kids advocate, FLOTUS, FLOAR, Senator, Secretary of State, dog person, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, 2016 presidential candidate’.
Hillary Clinton has joined LinkedIn (LinkedIn.com)
The profile appears to be real – listing Clinton’s CV to date (including ‘First Lady 1993-2000) and featuring a number of her campaign videos.
The 67-year-old announced her arrival on the site with a blog post, entitled ‘Four ways to jump-start small business’.
She writes: When I was growing up, my father owned a small business. And when I say small, I mean small: It was my father and an occasional day labourer.
Hillary Clinton is a big fan of pantsuits
“We were an all-hands-on-deck operation, guided by my father’s belief that if you worked hard and did what you were supposed to do, opportunities would be there for you.”
She also employs the tactic missing from Britain’s recent general election campaigning, and speaks about a ‘real person’ - a young entrepreneur called Brad, who managed to fight his way out of the recession to open ‘Goldie's Ice Cream Shoppe’ in Iowa.
Clinton's background as written on her LinkedIn profile
Clinton concludes: “That’s the spirit that got Americans through the Great Recession. And as we come back from the crisis, potential new business owners and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Des Moines to Brooklyn are ready to seize the moment. All they need are policies that help them get ahead instead of holding them back.
That’s why I want to be a small business president.”
So far, the post has had 600 views and 88 ‘likes’. Clinton herself has picked-up 493 followers since joining this morning.
LinkedIn, which launched in 2003, has 115 million active professionals in the US and more than 15 million in the UK.
American politicians have engaged with LinkedIn before – President Obama has a profile, although he appears not to have posted anything since 2013.
David Cameron has 1.7m followers on LinkedIn
In the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron has a profile, which begins with the less-than-scintillating bio:
“I became Prime Minister after the General Election in May 2010. I led a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government from 2010 - 2015 and in May 2015 I was elected to lead a Conservative government.”
On May 11, Cameron posted a blog called: ‘My message following general election 2015’. He has 1.7 million followers.
Nick Clegg is yet to update his profile on LinkedIn.com
Less up-to-date is Nick Clegg’s bio, which still lists him as ‘Deputy Prime Minister & Leader of the Liberal Democrats at Liberal Democrats’.