If you're ready for the workforce and need that extra boost to get that referral based interview, then don't miss this complimentary webinar sponsored by UIC Liautaud Graduate School of Business and Forward Progress.. In this "Complimentary Webinar" Dean DeLisle, Founder and CEO of Forward Progress, will give you the Top Techniques from their new LinkedIn Career Development Course on how to use LinkedIn as a career building social network tool. ALL registrants and attendees will get access to the recording and materials. Forward Progress has trained over 50,000 people on benefiting from the use of LinkedIn - now add yourself to that list! With over 170,000,000 professionals on LinkedIn, you are closer to your ideal jobs than you think. Learn how to find those available jobs and interviews before someone else does. You will also see what it takes to get THEM to find YOU – all while using LinkedIn less than 20 minutes a day! In this brief session you will learn: - Key profile settings - Optimal LinkedIn system settings - To find key conversations - How to score easy referrals - How to track your success - Free NEW tools to access

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How to Accelerate
Your Career and
Get Hired With the
Power of LinkedIn

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LIAUTAUD INFORMATION SESSION

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Administration in Accounting Information Systems Real Estate
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Social Networks We Already Know
• Ourselves
• Your Company
• Wright Hub
• CityCountry Clubs
• Chambers
• Industry Clubs
• Organizations
• Charities
• ReligiousHealth
• Network Groups
• LinkedIn Groups

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Social Networks We Already Know
• Trusted Colleagues
• Like-minded People hanging out
• Similar Friends and Associations
• You have more “Things” in common
• Similar “Beliefs”
• Recommended “IN”

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How Many Contacts Do You Have That
You Cannot See?
• That Know YOU? Networking
• That Trust YOU? Beyond
One-to-One
• That have done Business with YOU?
• That would recommend YOU?
Dean Sue Pat Mark

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2012 LinkedIn Stats - Growing
• LinkedIn Has Over 170 Million Members
• Average user has 240 “Connections”
• One degree from over 35,000 “Trusted Connections”
• Two degrees from over 3,200,000 “Trusted Connections”
• 1 million new members a week
• 17.8 million members belong to groups
• 1.2 million comments and posts to groups weekly
• 2 billion people searches annually
• 1 million companies have a company page
OVER 1,000 to 1

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5 Steps to the
Interview
LinkedIn

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Step 1 – Look Good
Complete Profile
Be Clear
What will you do for others?
Why & How?
What do you wantneed?
Worth $1,000,000
Peer Review

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Build the Story
of WHO YOU
ARE and WHAT
YOU WILL DO
FOR PEOPLE
THAT FIND
YOU!

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Introduce Yourself
1. Create your personal tagline
2. Appear focused
3. Put your elevator pitch to work
Create Relevancy!
4. Point out your “RELEVANT” skills
5. Explain your experience
6. Distinguish yourself from the
crowd
7. How will you help them?

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Introduce Yourself
What do you LOVE
to do when you are
not working?

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Getting Contacted

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#2 Value Based Posting
What does your employer want?
What skills can you express?
What are you passionate about?
What will show them your personality – who you are?

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#2 Value Based Posting
What does your audience want?
What do they need?
What are you passionate about?
What will show them your personality?

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Value Based Posting
What does your audience want?
What do they need?
What are you passionate about?
What will show them your personality?

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Value Based Posting

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Step 3 – How much time do
you have?
20
How much
Minutes
time does
it take?
a Day!

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Your Social Results Plan
DON’T GET SUCKED IN !!!!

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Step 4 – Connect - Ask
• Are you on LinkedIn?
• Is it ok if we connect?
Get
Social

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Then – Connect

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More – Connect - Ask

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Step 4 – Connect - Ask

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Step 5 – Interaction

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Step 5 – Interaction - Home

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Step 5 – Interaction - Skills

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Step 5 – Interaction - Groups

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Step 5 – Interaction - Groups

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Step 5 – Interaction - Groups
The Secret
Sauce? OFFLINE for
Take them
a deeper conversation
and then get your
results!

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Career Assignment
• Fix Your Profiles – Look good!
• Be Complete – Be Relevant
• What will you do for others?
• What do you wantneed?
• Build Your Network UP Daily
• Even if only 1 @ Day
•Be Social
• Have Meaningful Conversations
• Provide Value
• Be Present!

38. LIAUTAUD STUDENTS
TO REGISTER FOR THE TWO-CREDIT COURSE:
“Using the Power of Social Networks to Take Control of Your
Career”
That meets for eight Saturdays, 9:00 – 11:30, beginning Saturday,
October 27
GO TO MY.UIC and sign up, until Friday, October 26
Questions or problems? Contact James Brown, Student Advisor,
jwbrown2@uic.edu

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