Get LinkedIn!

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CREATING YOUR PROFESSIONAL STORY WITH LINKEDIN Laura Neidert, University Career Services

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Page 1: Get LinkedIn!

CREATING YOUR

PROFESSIONAL STORY

WITH LINKEDIN

Laura Neidert, University Career Services

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Why should I join?

What does LinkedIn say?

What does UCS say?

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Latin America

3%

Other

0%

North America

61%

Europe

24%

Asia

8%

Africa

1%

Middle East

1%

Oceania

2%

Who Uses LinkedIn?

• 175 million+ professionals

• Over 150 industries

• Executives from all

Fortune 500 firms

• May 2012: over 20 million students and recent grads on LinkedIn (The FASTEST growing group!)

• 37,000 college and university alumni groups

• People are joining LinkedIn at a rate faster than 2 new members per second!

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1st stop: LinkedIn Learning Center

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Start with this…

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End Up with This!

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How to take a good profile photo

Fun, but the sock monkey is

bigger than she is…

Same person,

improved, still room to

tweak. A clearly professional photo

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Building quality connections

LinkedIn Alumni

Email importing

Search strategies

As a follow up strategy

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Getting IN the right professional groups

Which groups to join?

How to find more groups?

Benefits of group membership

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Staying on top of it

Devoting time to cultivate your network

Making it easy to manage via your phone or tablet

Making it a regular habit during your job search

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Making your presence even stronger

Using additional sections to tell your story

Managing group interactions

Displaying samples of your work

Research potential opportunities

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Add Sections to Enhance Your Profile

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Skills, Skills, Skills

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Keeping an eye on the competition

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Becoming a networking pro

Managing group interactions effectively

Exhibit professional etiquette

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Show off professionally

In-site applications: share presentations, written, and

creative work, as well as your intellectual interests.

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Linking to Your Future

Research companies

Research people

Apply to jobs focused on students

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www.linkedin.com/studentjobs

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Becoming known

Create a custom URL for personal branding

Share it far and wide!

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Questions and Discussion Time

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Next steps

If you have a LinkedIn profile, review and update it.

If you don’t have a profile, start one.

Visit the UCS Library for further resources

Consult our handouts online!