LinkedIn basics for first time users.

1. Getting Started on LinkedIn
Bill Gascoyne
csix@billgascoyne.name

2. Why Use LinkedIn?
• Networking!!!
– Keep track of people you meet
– Make yourself available to others
– Increase your visibility
• Job Seeking
– Employers are using LinkedIn to find you
• Reconnect With People
– Former co-workers
– College buddies

3. Guy Kawasaki – More Reasons
• Perform blind, “reverse,” and company
reference checks
• Make your interview go smoother
– Research your interviewer
• Market yourself
• Gauge the health of a company or industry
• Track or find startups
http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2007/07/ten-ways-to-use.html

4. “For Dummies…”
Not only does
it exist, there
are three books
ahead of it on
Amazon!

5. LinkedIn – Opening Page

6. Other Required Info

7. Editing Your Profile

8. Editing Your Profile (contd.)

9. Public Profile

10. Add Connections

11. Home Page for Members

12. Privacy Tips
• Dedicated (non-business) e-mail address
– linkedin@billgascoyne.name
• Turn off visible contacts
• Control and edit your contacts
• Don’t date your degree

13. Other Features
• Recommendations
• Groups
– Alumni, Company, SIG
– Groups have discussion boards
• Q&A
– For all members
– Become an “Expert”
• Messaging
• Job Postings
• Company Index

14. Thank You
http://billgascoyne.name/LinkedIn.pdf