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 for newly added colleagues (and add them to your network, if you choose), just follow these steps.

Click the green Add Connections button.

The Add Connections window opens.

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Click the Colleagues tab.

The Colleagues window appears.

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Pick an employer (current or past).

If you’ve previously looked over the list of colleagues for an employer, two buttons are available: Find New and View All. To check for just the latest additions, you want to click the yellow Find New button. If you have never checked an employer’s list, only one button is available for you to click. Clicking the View All link brings up the new colleagues list for Waterside Productions as shown here.

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Choose people to connect with.

If you think you recognize the name of someone you’d like to connect with, click his or her name to see the person’s profile for more information. If you see someone you want to invite to your network, select the check box next to the person’s name, and it should appear in the right window, as shown here.

Selecting the Add a Personal Note to Your Invitation? check box and adding some text helps the contact remember who you are.

Click the blue Send Invitations button.

Each person on your list will receive an Invitation to join your network. If you don’t know or want to invite anyone on the list, click the gray I Don’t Know Anyone Here button to cancel the entire process. You’ll see up to 50 names; if you don’t see any company names on this page, it’s because you didn’t add any companies to your profile.

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 at the bottom of the page 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.