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How to Add a Position to Your LinkedIn Profile
One of the most important aspects of your LinkedIn profile is the list of positions you’ve held over the years, including your current job. Keeping your employment information up to date is especially [more…]
How to Report Education on Your LinkedIn Profile
Your LinkedIn Education section says a lot about you, especially to potential employers and to former schoolmates who are looking to reconnect with you. When you signed up with LinkedIn, you might have [more…]
Your LinkedIn Profile: How to Include Additional Information
LinkedIn offers an Additional Information section that enables allows you to provide lots of information about yourself. You can include things like information about websites you maintain, your Twitter [more…]
How to Set Your LinkedIn Profile for Public Viewing
After you fully update your LinkedIn profile, your next goal is to share it with the entire world, not just your LinkedIn network. The best way to accomplish this is to set up your profile so that your [more…]
How to View Your LinkedIn Connections
Before you start searching throughout your LinkedIn network, it’s helpful to understand the reach of your own immediate network and how your first-degree connections’ networks add up to keep you connected [more…]
How to Search LinkedIn by Keyword
With LinkedIn’s search capabilities, search the network by keyword to find experts in a given field. When you search by keyword, LinkedIn analyzes everyone else’s profiles to find that matching word. You [more…]
How to Search LinkedIn by Name
When you want to find a specific person on LinkedIn, you can search by name. LinkedIn has developed special First and Last Name Search fields to help you find that person. When you search by name, you [more…]
How to Search LinkedIn by Company
Sometimes, you might need to search LinkedIn by company. Maybe you’re thinking of applying to a company, and you want to see who you know (or, rather, who is in your extended network) who works for that [more…]
How to Search LinkedIn by Job Title
LinkedIn gives you the ability to search by job title instead of person because sometimes you might need to look for someone in a specific position rather than for a specific person. This is a huge LinkedIn [more…]
How to Use LinkedIn’s Expanded Contacts Mapping
In the past, LinkedIn gave you no way to view other people’s social networks. LinkedIn’s new Contact Management and Networking toolkit changes all of that. Now, when folks put their social networks on [more…]
LinkedIn: Benefits of Using
With LinkedIn, you can build your brand and profile to share with others, search for work, get valuable information about searching for work, and expand your network. All of these things are aimed at putting [more…]
LinkedIn Costs and Benefits
Signing up for LinkedIn is free, and many of its functions are open to all account holders, so you can take advantage of most of the opportunities that LinkedIn can create. You don’t have to pay a setup [more…]
How to Navigate Around LinkedIn
Navigating around LinkedIn is easy. After you log on to your LinkedIn account, you see your personal LinkedIn home page. The top navigation bar is an important navigational feature of your LinkedIn pages [more…]
How to Join LinkedIn with an Invitation
One way to join LinkedIn is with an Invitation. When a friend or colleague invites you to join, you receive an e-mail invitation. The e-mail clearly identifies the sender and usually has “Invitation to [more…]
How to Join LinkedIn without an Invitation
If you haven’t gotten an invitation to join LinkedIn, don’t let that turn you into a wallflower. You can join LinkedIn directly, without an invitation from an existing user. Open your Web browser and make [more…]
Your LinkedIn Profile: How to Choose Contact Settings for Your LinkedIn Profile
Before you dive right in and start updating your LinkedIn profile, stop and think about what kind of profile you want to construct and show to the world. Specifically, think about how you want to use LinkedIn [more…]
How to Add Your Summary to LinkedIn
Your LinkedIn profile Summary section, which appears in the top third of your profile, should give any reader a quick idea of who you are, what you’ve accomplished, and most importantly, what you’re looking [more…]
How to Update Your LinkedIn Profile Summary and Basic Information
When you have an idea of what you want to put in your LinkedIn profile’s Summary and Basic Information sections, it’s time to go into LinkedIn and plug that data into the correct fields. [more…]
How to Start Building Your LinkedIn Network
After you sign up for your LinkedIn account, you’re ready to look at how to build your network, with tools and forms provided by LinkedIn. Your first step is to decide who you want to invite to connect [more…]
How to Set Up a LinkedIn Introduction
LinkedIn lets you introduce colleagues or people with whom you have done business. On LinkedIn, you should do your best to make sure the Introduction process goes smoothly, but don’t worry, there’s not [more…]
How to Send a LinkedIn InMail
If you’re looking to connect with someone on LinkedIn right away and you don’t have an immediate or secondary connection with that person, you can use LinkedIn's InMail feature to send a message directly [more…]
How to Accept and Forward LinkedIn Introduction Requests
If someone in your LinkedIn network is looking for your help to meet someone in your network, you can facilitate the Introduction requests between your LinkedIn first-degree connections. Now that your [more…]
How to Decline a LinkedIn Introduction Request
As a member of LinkedIn, you might receive an Introduction request that you just don’t feel comfortable sending to the recipient. There are any number of reasons why you might want to decline a LinkedIn [more…]
How to Find Newly Added Colleagues on LinkedIn
LinkedIn provides a few tools that help you quickly scan the system to see whether a recently joined member is a past colleague or classmate of yours. When you want to search for colleagues [more…]
How to Perform a Reference Search on LinkedIn
One of the benefits of LinkedIn is that you can search for someone who might have worked with someone you’re researching. It's commonly referred to as a reference search. LinkedIn has created the reference [more…]
