{"id":847,"date":"2012-03-06T05:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2012-02-26T04:19:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T09:19:17","slug":"how-to-get-started-on-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/how-to-get-started-on-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get started on LinkedIn?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you are new to LinkedIn you may have questions on where to start.\u00a0 Here are tips for getting starting with LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn and Personal Branding can be great tools to help you in your job search.\u00a0 LinkedIn can help you be seen by those who need to know you, find you, and get to know you better.<\/p>\n

Using Groups and LinkedIn Answers are both solid ways to reach a target audience.\u00a0 Each feature provides interactive ways for you to be seen and heard by your target audience.\u00a0 As you engage in a group dialogue or a business conversation with peers, group members you showcase your knowledge you can answer questions and become seen as an expert by answering the questions of others in your field, industry or area of interest.<\/p>\n

Be sure you cover the basics and have a solid foundation before you move to advanced features and apps.\u00a0 Think about your brand, communicate your unique value and be consistent.<\/p>\n

Here are the pillars for your foundation:\u00a0\u00a0 Name, Headline, Photo, Your Personalized URL, Experience, Education, and Summary.\u00a0 The first five (5) are critical to getting started.\u00a0 You can set up your account and in a professional manner and begin connecting with others after you have these areas set up as your foundation.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget about your account settings.\u00a0 Many in the career field will also recommend you upload your text r\u00e9sum\u00e9 to your account to save time.\u00a0 That is not a recommendation I make, but do it if you are in a rush and speed to market is more important to you than quality.<\/p>\n

Now get busy, offline and make a list of those key people and centers of influence that you wish to invite to join your LinkedIn network.\u00a0 Once you have the list, take time to reach out to them, tell them you have joined LinkedIn and ask if they would accept an invitation from you to connect?\u00a0 Then send a personalized LinkedIn invitation to you initial list of contacts and centers of influence.<\/p>\n

Again, this method is not the easiest or fastest one for adding LinkedIn connections.\u00a0 It is a method sure to enhance your relationships and strengthen your network as you build your list of connections on LinkedIn.\u00a0 If speed or just amassing large numbers of connections is more important to you than the quality of the connection or the relationship, you can simply allow LinkedIn access to your email addresses, and send all of your email contacts who also have a LinkedIn account, a generic invitation to connect with you on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

You have your LinkedIn foundation set, this tool in place and initial invitations sent.\u00a0 Next you can focus on other features to leverage LinkedIn to accelerate your search.<\/p>\n

Do you have a question about your search or LinkedIn?\u00a0 Look to the right and sign up for next Q & A session, join the session and ask your question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  If you are new to LinkedIn you may have questions on where to start.\u00a0 Here are tips for getting starting with LinkedIn. LinkedIn and Personal Branding can be great tools to help you in your job search.\u00a0 LinkedIn can help you be seen by those who need to know you, find you, and get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,44,15,22,24],"tags":[9,5,10,138],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-tips","category-job-search-2","category-linkedin","category-personal-branding","category-social-media","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-focus","tag-job-search","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}