LinkedIn Tags meets your personal contacts

Avanade – Paul Lovallo

Building a targeted pipeline of LI Profiles

5 Key Reasons to Build a Talent Pipeline

1. Identify the right talent early.

2. Reduce time to fill. (Ongoing conversations with candidates gives us the option to accelerate the discussion when the time is right)

3. Prevent great candidates from slipping away.

4. Minimize the business disruption caused by sudden resignation, or attrition making you a “valued partner” to the business.

5. Strengthen the Avanade Brand, as well as awareness by being continually ‘out there’ engaging prospective candidates.

What is a Tag?

Noun-1. A label attached to someone or something for identification or other information.

Why Tag profiles?1. Brings organization to LinkedIn2. Track who you made contact with and profiles you have

engaged with-

Tag Profiles to stay organized

• Use customizable tags to highlight key attributes, Job title, employer, skills or experience of individuals that are important to the business so you can quickly find them in the future.

• Set Reminders to help you stay on top of next steps.

Creating New Tags

Creating New Tags

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2. 3.

Create up to 200 Custom Tags

Create up to 200 Custom tags that are meaningful; i.e. by job title, skill set, vertical or by relationship.

Add notes and reminders to Tagged profiles

Add notes and reminders to Tagged profiles

Add contact information to LI ProfilesBefore sending out an inmail try searching in Taleo (40%), Pipl (25%) orBeenVerified (25%)

Pipl.com

Taleo

Beenverified.com

Add contact information to profiles

LinkedIn Contacts.

• A smarter way to stay in touch.• LinkedIn acquired Connected

LinkedIn Contacts

• LinkedIn Contacts brings together all your address books, emails, and calendars, and keeps them up to date in one place.

• From these sources LI automatically pulls in the details of your past conversations and meetings, and bring these details directly onto your contact’s profile.

Adding and Synching Contacts

Sync Your Contacts

Importing contact

Why Sync Your Contacts?• When you sync other services with LinkedIn, you import contact information,

meetings, emails, and more for easy access in one place.

• LinkedIn Contacts keeps your contacts and their information up to date by regularly checking for any changes.

• LinkedIn Contacts creates an index of your email messages so you can quickly access your message history, right from where it's already stored. We don't store your full message history.

• LinkedIn Contacts respects your privacy. They never share our personal information with anyone.

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LinkedIn Contacts

• To learn more about LinkedIn Contacts and join visit http://contacts.linkedin.com