2. Workshop Overview
What is LinkedIn?
How to Set up a LinkedIn Page
Recommendations
What to Update it with
Privacy and Settings
Questions
3. What is LinkedIn?
What do you think LinkedIn is?
An online CV accessible any time of day.
A marketing tool.
A progress report on your career, development and
training.
A FREE platform. www.linkedin.com
4. How to Set Up a LinkedIn Profile
Visit www.linkedin.com
Register your account.
Add a professional headshot.
Headline – Who you help and how you help them?
A compelling Summary.
Add and move around sections.
Customise your profile url.
Complete the Contact Details area.
Add any qualifications.
Get Recommendations.
6. Add Connections!
Don’t just add your friends!
Add work colleagues
Add suppliers
Check who they are all connected too
Ask for contacts
Personalise your Message Request
Tab for remembering how you met someone
Add Groups
Follow Companies
7. What to Update LinkedIn With?
Any ongoing or new courses or training sessions
you attend.
Content you have created that demonstrates your
skills.
Add Organisations you are a part of.
Additional Info – Key Word Dump.
Companies you want to aspire to.
Change of address or contact details.
8. Privacy and Settings
When Updating your Profile switch off
notifications
Profile Picture > Privacy and Settings
Carefully go through Account, Privacy and
Communication sections
9. Downloads and Presentation
Visit www.stomp.ie > About Melanie Boylan >
Downloads – Loads of LinkedIn Handouts!
LinkedIn Slideshare
Keywords, writing in the 3rd person – no, add email twitter, personalise connect, build network, do research on people and companies hidden or not and
Hand out How to Facebook and LinkedIn
You can ask your connections to write a recommendation of your work that you can display on your profile:
Go to your profile and click the down arrow to the right of the button near your profile picture.
Click Ask to be recommended from the dropdown.
Follow the prompts to request the recommendation.
Click Send.
Click into your list of connections and select someone – the tab will automatically show under the header of your connection and they will add when you connected. You need add where you met and what was discussed, mentioning family or role they had at the time to keep up the relationship. Tags can be added to make it easier to find people from different companys or groups.
Marketing Dept = SM campaign, Accounts Dept = Handy write up or white paper, Engineer = tips on spotting issues and how to fix them
