Signing Up To LinkedIn

Signing Up To LinkedIn

•www.linkedin.com

• Signup

Optimise Your Profile

Photo

• Professional Headshot

• Not too much body (want to be able to see your face)

Summary

• Short summary about who you are etc

• 2000 character word count

• Keep it to 1 paragraph per point

Custom URL

• Customise your own personal URL (suggested using the name people will use to search for you)

• First come, first served

• http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/87/~/customizing-your-public-profile-url

Background

• Add all previous jobs

• Try to link each job to a company profile already on LinkedIn

Education

• Include any formal education you have. E.g.University degree

• Try to link to school / university profile

• Professional qualifications? Put that in here

Certification

• Any other certificates go here.

Skills & Endorsements

• Only lists top 10

• We suggest you have max 10 written down that are relevant to your work or desired area of expertise.

• When you are first suggested for a skill, you can accept or reject it

• Easy to gain more endorsements

Basic Information

Put whatever level of detail you feel comfortable with.

• Interests

• Personal Details

• Advice For Contacting – really useful filter

• Languages

Projects

• Any major projects undertaken can go here

• Use to showcase your experience

Right Side Menu – Recommended For You

• Honors and Awards

• Test Scores

• Courses

• Patents

• Add whatever is relevant here

View Your Profile

• Click Done Editing

• Check Profile Strength For “All-Star” rating

• Click customised URL for public profile

Privacy & Settings

Profile

• Set Privacy

• Most Important here is how you want to be seen when viewing other people’s profiles

• Easiest Place To Make/Ask for Recommendations

Communications

• Set email frequencies

• The types of emails you want to receive

Account

• Change Emails/Passwords

• Most Important: Add all emails so you can be found easily

• Change security, change language and privacy of photos (who can see yours, whose you can see)

Connections

Add Connections

• Import contacts through email address/pst file

• Use mobile app to see any contacts you have on your phone who you may be missing from email file.

• Under >>Home on the right sidebar click “People You May Know” to get a grid of people to invite to connect.

• One you’ve got a base level of LinkedIn contacts smart phone app is a pretty good way of flicking through potential connections

• NEVER SAY NEVER!

• Business card scanner apps http://appcrawlr.com/app/related/264113

Using LinkedIn

Home

• Your Newsfeed – Similar to Facebook

Private Messaging

• Use private messaging to find out more about someone without having to share it with your network.

Adding Companies/Groups

• Your Firm – Search For It

• LinkedIn will suggest groups/companies to join –join whatever is of interest.

• You can also set individual (non-global) settings for each group – if there’s one group you want to receive daily emails from but nothing else you can set up there.

Who’s Viewed Your Profile

• See who’s viewed your profile

• How You Rank (for the competitors)

Worried about updating?

Slideshare / Social Sharing

• LinkedIn has bought Slideshare – allows you to upload slides straight to LinkedIn.

IFTTT

• Autopost anything from your news blog to your LinkedIn page.

• Cool “recipes” to have a look.

Questions?

• Please connect with me

• http://nz.linkedin.com/in/rebeccacaroe/