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 connections you may see has a contact that should be a part of your network.

Open your network.

Click the Connections link in the expanded left navigation menu under Contacts.

Click the name of a first-degree connection.

(Alternatively, you can search for the name from the search box on the home page and then, on the search results page, click the name you want).

When you have the person’s profile, look for the Connections link below the name and professional headline. If you don’t see a tab marked Connections, you can’t proceed with this process because that person has chosen to make their connection list private. If that’s the case, you need to select another of your first-degree connections.

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Click the Connections link.

Look through the list to see whether you’d like to send an Invitation to anyone.

Here you see a connection list.

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Click a person’s name.

This pulls up his or her profile.

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Click the Add Person’s Name to Your Network link.

The Invitation page appears.

Select the option that best describes your connection to this person.

It’s a good idea to enter some text in the box under Include a Personal Note. This text customizes your Invitation and you can use it to remind the person of you and why you’d like to connect.