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Greendale Jobs Club
Creating a LinkedIn profilewww.linkedin.com
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Content Overview
Sign up Confirm your account via email Accessing your email contacts Selecting email contacts to connect with Advertising your profile on Facebook and Twitter Choosing an account type Your profile page
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Sign up
Type www.linkedin.com into the address bar at the top of your internet browser. The page below will be displayed
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Sign up
Type in your first and last name. This will be the name appearing on your profile. Then add your current email address and choose a password longer than 6 characters
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Sign up
Type in your postal code, if you are currently a job seeker, student or employed, your latest job title, most recent company and enter the time period for your latest job. This information will be added to your profile
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Sign up
LinkedIn allows you to use your email contacts to automatically notify them that you are have a new LinkedIn profile page
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Confirm your account
You now need to confirm to LinkedIn that you own the email account you registered with. You can let LinkedIn log into your account via the ‘Confirm my Windows Live Hotmail Account’ button on the bottom left
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Confirm your account
A pop up window will appear where you can log into your email account. In this case I am using hotmail.com
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Accessing your email contacts
LinkedIn will ask permission to use your email contacts. You need to accept this if you would like LinkedIn to automatically email your contacts, notifying them of your new LinkedIn profile
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Selecting email contacts
Once LinkedIn has access to your email contacts it will show you a list of people you can connect with. Select the people you would like to connect with and press the ‘Add Connections’ button on the bottom left of the screen
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Posting to Facebook and Twitter
You can share your new LinkedIn profile on Facebook and Twitter
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Choosing an account type
The basic account will get you up and running for free to get you started with LinkedIn.
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Profile pageYou have created your profile page for LinkedIn but you aren’t quite finished. You now need to update your profile which we will be covering in our next series of ‘How to’ on LinkedIn
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Link in with us
Each week we will be updating our series of ‘How to’ guides to using LinkedIn. Please follow us at the following sites:
www.facebook.com/GreendaleJobsClubwww.linkedin.com/in/GreendaleJobsClubwww.greendalejobsclub.wordpress.comwww.twitter.com/GreendaleJC
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