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“But really: Why LinkedIn?”

Short term benefits

• professional connections

• career-related stories/news

• Research grad schools

• Research employers

• Internship & job postings!

• Exposure: The world of work

Long term benefits

• Keep your connections up to date about YOU

• Keep up to date about your connections

• Build impressive online profile

• Your long list of professional connections

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Easy as 1-2-3

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• Short/highlights

• First Handshake Resume

• No limits

• professionalLinkedIn

• personalized

• creativePortfolio

Setting up your LinkedIn profile

different for everyone…

• Photo – Nice clothes

– Plain background

– Smile

• Headline– Current status (and)

– “student at…” “aspiring…”

• Summary– What motivates you?

– What are you good at?

– What’s next for you?

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Tips 1 + 2: First Impressions

Your Name

• Use everyday nickname

• No middle name or initial

• Example: Bill Morgan

Your Headline

• Informative

• Interesting

• Professional

• “the one thing you want a recruiter to know about you”

• Examples:– Student excited to be at

Michigan State University

– Spartan studying to be an excellent accountant

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Tip 3: Profile Photo

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Tip 4: Your profile = long resume

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Tip 5: People you know!

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Searching for connections( connect to me! billmorgan231 )

• Email contact lists (import)

• Family & Friends & Faculty (the easy ones!)

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Tip 6: Search for MSU alum

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Alumni at Work

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Alumni filtered

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Start search with Location

Add Schools MSU Add Industries

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employer job info

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Tip 10: Research: Grad Schools

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Bonus Tip: Career Fair Follow-up

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