“Link to professionals”By: /in/MedhatKilany

The Idea

What is

Linked

• Business Oriented Social Networking Site.

• The Biggest In The World.

• Established in 2003.

• Links you to a 300 MILLION professional user.

• Not Job search site, but often used that way.

Why?

Linked

• Brand & Position Yourself.

• Discover new business and professional opportunities.

• Communicate with decision makers & Influential people.

• Global Network, with local reach.

What do I need?

1. Strong completed profile.

2. Keywords.

3. Network.

4. Stream.

5. Privacy.

6. Avoid common mistakes.

Profile

• Professional.

• Simple.

• Showing your face.

• Remember to “Smile”.

• Showing your work if possible.

1- Profile Picture

Profile headline is your profile’s KEY

• 120 Character to attract people, do what fits you the best.

2- Headline

Answer the following questions:

1. Who are you?

2. How you got there?

3. How can you benefit me & what problems can you solve? ?

4. How can I contact you

Try to keep it short, Interesting & Creative.

3- Summary

Answer the following questions:

1. Where do you work? “Organization & Place”

2. What is Your position?

3. What problems have you solved?

4. What is the value you’ve added?

You can write job description in 1 case only, and it’s not cool

• If you didn’t add any values, or solve any problems YET.

4- Experience

5- Multimedia

Enhance your profile by adding an Evidence, to prove your experience and your work.

• Images

• Published articles, or books

• Videos

• Sound tracks

• Etc….

Show your skills, and only YOURS.

• Tell the truth.

• Keep it simple.

• Keep it Organized according to your needs.

• Stay away from the repeated words “Hard worker, work under pressure, ……”

6- Skills & Endorsements

• Recommendations.

• Projects.

• Volunteering & causes.

• Certificates

• Published materials

7- Extra activities

Keywords

Why keywords are important?

How to have an effective keywords?

1. Pay Attention to Your Professional Headline.

2. Consider Adding Keywords to Your Job Title.

3. Use Your Summary for Additional Keyword Content.

4. Continue Collecting Endorsements.

Network

Why you need a large Network?

In Search, you will only appear if you are connected with

“the person who do a research” on:

• Level 1

• Level 2

• Level 3

• Group

Why its important to connect with people?

• They found you via search.

• They see your activity on groups.

• They see your answer on LinkedIn answers.

Adding connections

your current connections:

• Social Media connections

your largest Networks:

• Colleagues.

• Alumni.

• Classmate.

Difficulties during adding connections?

• Asking for a relationship

• Asking for the Mail

There is more than one way to fix that

• Join a group he has already joined

• Choose friends, and don’t forget to change the MESSAGE

• Send him/her an Inbox mail asking for the mail

Stream

•Listen

•Interact

•Add

Privacy

Profile settings:

• turn on/off your activity.

• who can see your feeds?

• what others see when viewed your profile?

• who can see your connection?

Success?!

How to measure your success?1. Network

2. Profile views

Source of the views

Companies of the viewers

Functions of the viewers

3. Your rank

4. Average invitation per week

5. Endorsement

6. Search results

Lets have a look

LinkedIn Search

Linkedin.com/studentjobs

Common Mistakes

• You have an incomplete profile.

• You're not building out your connections!

• You don't belong to the right groups!

• You're not sharing valuable content.

• Use it for getting JOBS

The treasure • Linkedin.com/edu

• Linkedin.com/9aday

• Linkedin.com/studentjobs

Linkedin.com/in/medhatkilany