2. Francesco Costanzo
Customer Success Consultant
LinkedIn
Personal Branding according to
LinkedIn
Leonardo Intriago
Customer Success Senior Consultant
LinkedIn
3. Today’s Agenda
What is LinkedIn?
What LinkedIn offers
How to build a great profile
What’s in it for you?
8. A platform, a purpose
Who am I as a
person
Ways of sharing life
experiences and
belonging to a tribe
Friends based
activities
Social Professional
Broadcast
Who I am as a
professional
Highlighting my
experiences and
career aspirations
Professional activities
This is what I am
thinking
My voice to the world
Without any context
other than what I
choose
12. LinkedIn: A global pool of talent
4M+
INDONESIA
3M+
PHILIPPINES
2M+
MALAYSIA
1M+
SINGAPORE
1M+
SAUDI ARABIA
22M+
BRAZIL
118M+
UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
11M+
CANADA
31M+
INDIA
7M+
AUSTRALIA
1M+
NEW ZEALAND
4M+
SOUTH AFRICA
1M+
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
19M+
UNITED KINGDOM
10M+
FRANCE
8M+
ITALY
2M+
BELGIUM
1M+
DENMARK
4M+
TURKEY
5M+
NETHERLANDS
2M+
SWEDEN
7M+
SPAIN
10M+
CHINA
380M+
Members
worldwide +2 New members per second
13. For our members
The professional
profile of record
Connect all of the
world's professionals
Identity Networks Knowledge
The definitive professional
publishing platform
48. Helping you grow and engage your network
48
Sharing updates vs. publishing posts
Posts
Deeply explore topics that
matter to you, then watch
the comments to see your
impact
Updates
Share links, articles,
images, quotes or anything
else your followers might be
interested in
57. Review of the contents
What is LinkedIn?
What LinkedIn offers
How to build a great profile
What’s in it for you?
https://it.linkedin.com/in/francescocostanzo @France5Costanzo
https://it.linkedin.com/in/leonardointriago @leointriago
Give a glimpse into who you are and get people excited to learn more
Progression is way we use the web to and example of how we ingest content
- In th 90’s – SHOULD you have a presence online?
Our mission: Connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful.
Five years ago, when we drafted this mission, LinkedIn had just over 30M members (among an addressable audience of 600M knowledge workers.) We closed 2013 with nearly 10x that figure, 277M, and are growing at the fastest absolute rate of growth in our history.
Our immediate to intermediate term focus (one to three years) will be to continue to invest in the same value propositions that got us to where we are today
With regard to our members, we'll continue focusing on helping them build their:
1. Professional identity (who they are)
2. Networks (who they know)
3. Knowledge (what they know)
The professional profile of record: enabling our members to connect, find and be found
Connecting all of the world’s professionals, all 600 million knowledge workers and increasingly students or pre-professionals
With regard to our customers, we’re changing the way companies:
1. Hire
2. Market
3. Sell
4. All built on a scalable sub/payments platform
Our vision: Create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce – all 3 billion
We think about economic opportunities in three distinct ways.
For those who are unemployed, it's about finding work.
For those who are gainfully employed, but uninspired by what they're doing, it’s about realizing your dream job
For those who are already in their dream job, it’s about being great at that work and once you achieve greatness, it’s about giving back and sharing your insights and your perspective with others who aspire to be great as well.
This result has been achieved in large part due to our continue focus on placeing our memeber first and on our core value proposition «Connect talent with opportunity at massive scale»
Our dream is to help people more easily navigate this increasingly challenging 21st century global economy by developing the world's first economic graph, i.e. we want to digitally map the global economy and in doing so, create economic opportunity for every one of the 3B people in the global workforce.
We want to create a digital profile for every member of the global workforce
We would like there to be a digital profile for every company in the world, and who you know at those companies up to three degrees to help you get your foot in the door.
We would like to have a digital representation of every job offered by these companies, full-time and part-time for profit and volunteer.
We would also like there to be a digital representation of every skill required to obtain these jobs.
And a presence for every higher educational organization and learning and development tool that would enable the members to obtain those skills.
And lastly, we want to be in a position where we can overlay the professionally relevant knowledge for every one of those individual members, companies and universities to the extent they want to share it. Then we want to step back and allow capital, all forms of capital, intellectual capital, working capital and human capital to flow, to where it can best be leveraged and in doing so, help lift and transform the global economy.
Give a glimpse into who you are and get people excited to learn more
Here’s how we talk about delivering value to our members
Give a glimpse into who you are and get people excited to learn more
Select a photo that represents you professionally. This helps humanize your profile and makes you more approachable
Your profile is the front page of your story. The headline is a great way to show your value and passion in one quick line. Make the reader want to read more.
Adding a summary of 40 words or more makes your profile more likely to turn up in a future employer’s search. A good tip is to ensure your summary includes keywords featured in desirable job descriptions for your field. Describe your experience and tell the world why you work in your chosen career. Avoid buzzwords (strategic, team player, creative) and focus on your career accomplishments.
It’s essential to list all past experience. Your profile is 12 times more likely to be viewed if you have more than 1 position listed. Illustrate your unique professional story and achievements by adding visuals like pictures, compelling videos and innovative presentations to your experience section.
Add skills – The optimal number is unique to each person. Include a mix of high level and niche skills and be specific.
Get Endorsements -Add skills that your connections can endorse you for and recognize those you’ve worked with on their professional skills. There are over 3 billion endorsements given to date on LinkedIn.
Adding causes and volunteer experience is a great way to round out your professional identity. Almost half of all hiring managers say they view volunteer experience as equivalent to formal work experience.
Here’s how we talk about delivering value to our members
Here’s how we talk about delivering value to our members
Look for groups relating to your industry, function, and career interest –– then join a few to stay up to date on trending topics and news.
There are many ways for your to share what you know on LinkedIn, and to also learn from others who are sharing their expertise. I am going to dive deeper into a couple of these.
SlideShare – upload you presentations, or infographics. New functionality now where you can with one click from SlideShare, add a presentation to you LinkedIn profile
Groups – We have over 2.1M groups on LinkedIn – connect with other professionals with similar interests to you. Collaborate, share, discuss
Pulse – Consume content on the topics that interest you.
Influencers – Follow industry influencers
We also have member publishing, which hopefully you’ve heard of. We’re going to dive deeper into that in a little bit.
Grow your reach: Writing on LinkedIn is a great way to tap into and grow your network. Not only will your posts reach your connections, you can also build a following
Grow your reach: Writing on LinkedIn is a great way to tap into and grow your network. Not only will your posts reach your connections, you can also build a following
Here’s how we talk about delivering value to our members