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 search to see what classmates of yours have recently joined LinkedIn.

For you to find them, your former classmates have to properly list their education dates.

To search for newly added classmates, follow these steps.

Click the green Add Connections button.

The Add Connections window opens.

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Click the Classmates tab.

The Classmates window appears. If it is blank, that is because you have not yet added any education entries to your profile.

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Click the name of the school you attended.

Clicking the list brings up a list of potential classmates.

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Click people to add them to your network.

You can view this list by graduation year only (which means you see only people who graduated the same year as you) or you can switch the view to all the years you attended the school by clicking that radio button. When you find someone, click the Invite link that’s on the same line as the person’s name (and appears in the Send Invitation column) to bring up an Invitation for that person.

Before you invite people, click their name to read their profiles and see what they’ve been doing. Why ask them what they’ve been doing when you can read it for yourself? By doing your homework first, your Invitation will sound more natural and be more likely to be accepted.

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Write a personal invitation and click the blue Send Invitation button.

Your Invitation is sent and a page appears like the one shown here. If you want to invite more classmates, simply click the yellow Find Classmates button and send them an invitation.

There’s another way to keep on top of newly added colleagues and classmates. When you go to your LinkedIn home page, you can find a section entitled Just Joined LinkedIn. This section tells you how many new colleagues and classmates have joined LinkedIn since the last time you logged on to the site. You can click the link to view the names of these people.