Call us greedy, call us Oliver Twists, but over here, we believe whatever’s worth doing is worth doing well. LinkedIn might be a great career platform to access jobs and journal your achievements for the world to see, but we need them to pull on their big boy pants and realise it’s also the perfect dating app in the making.
Who really needs to know their potential partner’s height, beliefs and drug habits when with LinkedIn, you can find out if they’re a team player, great at communication or a top earner in their field. Here’s how to find the love of your life on the most professional app in existence.
Send a cold DM
As soon as you’ve scoured the app and found upward moving people to connect and lock lips with, slide right into their DMs like you would on Twitter.
Be the clown you are
Nothing’s funny right now, but how do you expect to find the love of your life on an app as serious as LinkedIn if you can’t even dangle the promise of bringing joy and laughter into their lives?
Spin tales
We know you’ve seen the tales by office lamp people tell on LinkedIn. The people spinning those tales don’t have two heads. Give yours a romantic twist and you’re all set.
Be in the comments
Believe it or not, you’re interviewing for the role of their Biggest Cheerleader, and they’ll need to know you’re a serious applicant. The only way to do this is to get your digital finger foam and reply all their tales with “Deep”, “Insightful”, “Such a pioneer” and more.
Work on your elevator pitch
Or as we like to call it in dating, flirting. You’ve sent cold DMs, and you’ve tarried in the comments. Don’t let all your effort go to waste simply because there’s nothing sweet about “You’re the sugar in my tea”.
Go through their recommendations
You can tell a lot about a person from the way their coworker (from that one internship they did in uni) speaks of them. Do they work like tomorrow will never come? Are they cultist aspirants who like their coffee black?
Take it to the streets
This just might be the most important of all. The connection you have online might be great, but what happens when you meet and they don’t look at you like the moon and stars shine out your eyeballs? What then?
If LinkedIn isn’t for you, that’s fine, we also know: How to Get Into a Relationship From the Comfort of Your Home
