How to View Your LinkedIn Connections

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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:

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Log in to LinkedIn. From the left navigation menu, click the plus button next to the Contacts link and then click the Connections link.

This brings up a list of your current Connections on the Contacts page. You can scroll through the list or click the letter of the alphabet (located along the left side) to go straight to that section of your Connections list.

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Click the Advanced Options link to filter your list of connections by location or industry.

For example, if you click the Advanced Options button, you bring up the two filter drop-down lists (as shown here): the Filter by Location and Filter by Industry drop-down lists. With these filters, you can display a list of your connections that live in a greater metropolitan area of a certain city or work in a particular industry.

The drop-down lists only contain options for people who are your first-level direct contacts. Suppose you're looking for Internet professionals in the Austin, Texas, area. LinkedIn can show you who in your network matches that request! If you don’t see Austin, TX, in the list, none of your first-level connections resides in Austin.

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Click the Network Statistics tab to see the overall summary of your network.

Not only does this page have the current count of your Connections, but it also shows how many people are considered your second-degree connections (a friend of one of your connections) or third-degree connections (a friend of a friend of your friend) that you can search or reach through an Introduction.

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Scroll down this page to the Regional Access and Industry Access sections to see a breakdown of where the folks in your network are located and what they do.

LinkedIn shows you the percentage breakdown of which regions are the most popular in your network and which industries are represented in your extended network of first-, second-, and third-degree connections.

If you click any of the top five regions or industries on this page, LinkedIn automatically performs a search of your network with those criteria. So, if you want to see your network contacts that live in the greater New York City area, click the Greater New York City Area link in the Regional Access list.