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But for those on a budget, is a LinkedIn Premium account worth the money? The answer depends on how you use LinkedIn, which has more than 160 million members. For recruiters or those in cold-call sales, LinkedIn Premium's access to potential clients is a boon. But many job seekers may want to save their cash for printing resumes. "It is worth it for me, because people look at my information online," says Teresa Haenn, a business development manager at Profiles, a Washington, D.C. employment agency for online marketing, Internet and IT professionals. "When you cold-call to companies, people will go onto LinkedIn and see if you're worth talking to. It gives you some validation." Some LinkedIn users find the premium service "intrusive," however - they don't like the amount of information that is shared on the network. Others say they can find job seekers who use the free LinkedIn site without paying the extra cash. "If I'm a casual user or a job seeker, it doesn't appear that the value is there, at least at this time," says Sharlyn Lauby, who writes HR Bartender, a human resources blog. "But if I were tasked with doing some heavy-duty recruiting, I'd give a LinkedIn premium account a whirl." SKIPPING THE MIDDLEMAN The price of a premium account varies depending on the services. Haenn pays about $20 per month for a Premium Business account that allows her to send three InMails a month. An InMail gives Premium clients access to LinkedIn members, even if they aren't already personally linked, and offers a seven-day response guarantee. This guarantee, in theory, means there's less of a chance the recipient will ignore your missive. The next tier up, Business Plus, offers 10 InMails monthly at about $42 a month. A subscription to Premium also allows the user to see more results per search - 300 for Premium Business, 500 for Business Plus, compared with 100 for free LinkedIn users. Typically, Premium memberships are for people who need to find people outside their initial network, says LinkedIn spokeswoman Julie Inouye. "Reporters who need access to folks they need to talk to, recruiters or just people looking to expand their network with a more powerful search," are the prime users of this service, Inouye says. InMail is helpful for users who want to skip the middleman, says Matt Kerr, director of executive search and talent at BPI group, a global management and HR consulting firm in Chicago. "Instead of waiting for one of your connections to pass along your information to their contact, you can proactively introduce yourself by sending an InMail," he says. One of LinkedIn's early adopters, Kevin L. Nichols, started using the service in 2006. He switched to Premium about three years ago to develop his sales consultancy "more rapidly, effectively, and efficiently." Has it worked? Nichols, who is based in the San Francisco Bay area, says yes. "The time saved is well worth the $900 investment on the front end," he says. "Moreover, one deal made via one of these InMails will pay for its cost tenfold in my profession." Elissa Barnes, one of Haenn's colleagues at Profiles, says LinkedIn Premium "has completely changed our way of searching for talent, especially in a field that's white-collar and very, very technical. We've been so successful with LinkedIn that we've stopped using Monster and CareerBuilder. It is absolutely the strongest tool I've ever seen for recruiting in the past six years." LinkedIn banks on recruiters. When members - both free and Premium - post their resumes and reveal their connections to business colleagues, they create a valuable network. In turn, LinkedIn makes money by charging high-end recruiters premium prices for deep access to member profiles. 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