Greendale Jobs Club - Creating a LinkedIn profile

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Creating a LinkedIn profilewww.linkedin.com

LinkedInCreating a LinkedIn profile

http://www.linkedin.com/


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



Sign up

Type www.linkedin.com into the address bar at the top of your internet browser. The page below will be displayed





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



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



Sign up

LinkedIn allows you to use your email contacts to automatically notify them that you are have a new LinkedIn profile page



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



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



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



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



Posting to Facebook and Twitter

You can share your new LinkedIn profile on Facebook and Twitter



Choosing an account type

The basic account will get you up and running for free to get you started with LinkedIn.



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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Greendale Jobs Club - Creating a LinkedIn profile