This document provides an overview of how to use LinkedIn including how to sign up, build your profile, search for jobs and people, connect or follow others, improve your profile, and download LinkedIn apps. It discusses adding a profile photo, skills, contact information, and confirming your email. It also covers sharing status updates, SlideShares, links and content on LinkedIn and downloading the LinkedIn, LinkedIn Learning, LinkedIn Job Search, and SlideShare apps.
Agenda
1. WikiHow: Howto Use
LinkedIn
2. How to search
– a job
– a person
3. Contact or follow?
4. What to Share
– privacy, improve your
profile
– content
5. Appstore
– LinkedIn
– SlideShare
– LinkedIn Learning
– LinkedIn Job Search
6. Sources
7. Thank you
Create your profile
●Have a good profile picture.
● LinkedIn's profile wizard will take you through
the steps of entering your region, industry,
company and current job title.
● You will also be asked whether you are
employed, a business owner, looking for work,
working independently or a student.
● This information completes your basic profile.
3. Contact orfollow?
1. You know the person, he or she knows you
→ connect
2. You met this person, but you are not sure, if
this person remembers you → write a personal
message, if it is possible, then connect
3. When and How to Follow?
Improve your profile
HEADLINE
●Don't make yourself
replaceable
● Good picture and
headline
● What makes you
different from
everybody else and
why?
3 KEYS
– optimize your profile
for search
– 3 key points come
back in your summary,
experience and
education
– fx. management
accounter
25.
Improve your profile
URL
●Change it,
memorize it
● Stick it on other
social media sites,
websites
● Put it on your CV
26.
Content
Status
1. shot aphoto
2. add some comments
About what?
- event
- company news
- something is interesting
for your network
SlideShire
Tell visual stories
- it is a LinkedIn tool, and
app
- you can upload to your
profile
- represent you interest
or brand
http://www.slideshare.net/
Content
Update
Share links, articles,
images,quotes or
anything else your
connections &
followers might be
interested in
Post
Deeply explore topics
that matter to you, then
watch the comments to
see your impact
- become part of your profile
- gets shared with your
network
- reaches the largest group of
professionals ever assemled