Why use linkedin
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The document provides tips for college students and graduates on using LinkedIn to help with their job search and career development. It recommends networking within existing circles and asking for endorsements. It also stresses highlighting academic and extracurricular accomplishments on your profile and using LinkedIn to meet people in person. The document advises branding yourself to stand out and be creative and authentic in your profile to differentiate yourself from other graduates.
Why use linkedin
- 1. A PRESENTATION FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND COLLEGE GRADUATES
- 2. #1 You Already Have A Network, Now Use It You need to think about the people that you know! All you need to do is network within the circles that you know and from there branch out! Ask friends and family to endorse you on your LinkedIn profile. Ask classmates, professors, co- workers, ect.
- 3. #2 – Your Job For The Past 5 Years Has Been…A Student? Put down any of your academic accomplishments, club affiliations, etc on your LinkedIn profile. Make sure that you are able to communicate ALL of the skills that you have learned while you have been in school!!!
- 4. #3 – Meet People Face-To-Face, Not On A Screen LinkedIn is a great tool, but YOU need to use it correctly to get results. It is SIMPLE, once you have met someone on LinkedIn, the next step is to go out and meet people, intern, job shadow, talk with people that you think are successful and ask them how they got to where they are NOW!
- 5. #4 – BRAND YOURSELF Branding yourself makes you memorable. Think about how YOU want people to SEE YOU. Use your LinkedIn profile to CREATE a brand of YOU.
- 6. #5 – Be You DO NOT BE A FOLLOWER! Think outside the box BE CREATIVE. LinkedIn can help set you apart. What makes you different from the other 250,000 graduates out there? YOU are different because all of them are NOT YOU!
- 7. FOR MORE TIPS: Visit my professional blog cite: http://glogovaca.wordpress.com/ Or contact me via LinkedIn with any questions: Allison Glogovac
- 8. Images All of the images on my slides came from a Google search. I am not claiming ownership of ANY of the images. Thank You.