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How to Find Newly Added Classmates in LinkedIn

Through LinkedIn, you can reconnect with old classmates and maintain relationships, no matter where anyone moves on to. And, just as with the search for former colleagues, it’s important to do an occasional [more…]

How to Join LinkedIn

Many people join LinkedIn because a friend or colleague invited them. You can join without receiving an invitation to the professional networking Web site, though. Everyone joins LinkedIn at the basic [more…]

How to Select Your LinkedIn Contact Settings

You can adjust your LinkedIn Contact Settings to allow only the kinds of communications — requests, offers, messages, or inquiries — you want to receive via the professional networking Web Site. [more…]

How to Add a Position to Your LinkedIn Profile

One key aspect of your LinkedIn profile is the list of positions you’ve held over the years, including your current job. This list is especially important if you’re using LinkedIn to find a new or different [more…]

How to Include Your Education on Your LinkedIn Profile

When you signed up with LinkedIn, you were asked to provide your basic education information. If you didn't create a full list of the schools you attended when you registered, you can update your profile [more…]

How to Share Your LinkedIn Profile in Public View

You can set your LinkedIn profile for sharing with the entire world, not just your LinkedIn network. The best way to share your information is by setting up your profile for full public viewing. [more…]

How to Check Your LinkedIn Profile Settings

You want to make sure that you’ve selected the correct contact settings for your LinkedIn profile. For example, if you’re looking for a new job, you want to make sure that the option for Career Opportunities [more…]

How to View Your LinkedIn Connections

To view the connections (otherwise known as "people") within your LinkedIn network of professionals (along with some nifty statistics about your network), just follow these steps: [more…]

How to Search the LinkedIn Network

The LinkedIn search engine enables you to scan the millions of LinkedIn members based on keywords you provide. Currently, you have two main ways to search the network: a basic search and the Advanced Search [more…]

How to Sort Your LinkedIn Advanced Search Results

Whenever you do an advanced search, LinkedIn defaults to sorting your search results by the keywords you provided in your search. By using a specific sort method, you can narrow the list down to view what [more…]

How to Search by Keyword in LinkedIn

When you search by keyword, LinkedIn analyzes everyone else’s profiles to find that matching word. You can put any sort of skill, buzzword, interest, or other keyword that would be present in someone’s [more…]

How to Search by Company on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is an excellent place for searching detailed corporate profiles of specific companies. Maybe you’re thinking of applying to a company, and you want to see who you know that works for that company [more…]

How to Search by Job Title on LinkedIn

Sometimes you might need to look for someone in a specific position rather than for a specific person. LinkedIn gives you the ability to search by job title instead of person. When you’re ready to search [more…]

How to Perform a Reference Search in LinkedIn

LinkedIn allows you to search for someone who has worked with someone you’re researching. LinkedIn has created the Reference search to give you more information about a person or company. [more…]

How to Send an Introduction in LinkedIn

Introductions let you contact users in your network through the people you know. If you want to contact a user who is two or three degrees away from you, you can request an introduction through one of [more…]

How to Send an InMail with LinkedIn

The LinkedIn InMail feature lets you send a message directly to another LinkedIn member without anyone else getting involved. InMail is basically a private e-mail message that enables you to reach other [more…]

How to Accept LinkedIn Requests and Forward an Introduction

After you join LinkedIn, you may get requests from friends to be connected with other friends. You can accept or decline the request. If you’re ready to accept your friend’s request and forward her Introduction [more…]

How to Decline LinkedIn Requests for Introduction

You may receive an LinkedIn Introduction request that you don’t feel comfortable sending to the recipient. Perhaps you don’t know enough about the person, or are unclear about his motivation. You can gracefully [more…]

How to Track Sent Invitations in LinkedIn

LinkedIn keeps a running list of all the Invitations you sent out with the current status (Accepted, Doesn’t Know, Expired, or Sent) of each Invitation on that page as well. The last thing you want to [more…]

How to Track Invitations Received in LinkedIn

When growing your LinkedIn network, you should be responsive to others who want to add you to their LinkedIn connections lists. LinkedIn makes tracking the invitations you receive easy. [more…]

How to Find Newly Added Colleagues in LinkedIn

LinkedIn lets you search for colleagues any time. People change jobs and move around, and it’s easy to lose touch. Performing an occasional search can help you stay connected. When you want to do a search [more…]

How to Browse Your LinkedIn Connections’ Networks

Although it’s helpful for LinkedIn to help you search the network, sometimes nothing gives as good results as some good old-fashioned investigation. If you browse the network of one of your first-degree [more…]