Category — General LinkedIn tips

LinkedIn training – tips for job hunters, Part 1

Summary:

Here are 3 tips for job hunters – change your professional headline, answer questions, and put the words “seeking” and “looking” in your profile.

“I hope it’s gonna make you notice, someone like me” – Kings Of Leon


July 8, 2009   1 Comment

LinkedIn training tip – Email your Boston connections about a local event

Summary:

If you are having a local business event, and you want to send an email to your LinkedIn connections in Boston, how do you do it? It isn’t easy…


June 3, 2009   No Comments

LinkedIn training tip – Hiding your connections

Summary:

You can hide your LinkedIn connections, even from your other connections, with a simple switch. Here is how you do it, but it does have a set of implications.


May 29, 2009   5 Comments

LinkedIn training tip – Exporting your connections, or “How do I send a bulk email to my connections?”

Summary:

You can export some information about all of your LinkedIn connections to a file. LinkedIn doesn’t give you very much of the information that it has, but it will give you all of their email addresses. Therefore, there is a way to send your connections a mass email. However, please don’t be a spammer.


May 12, 2009   1 Comment

LinkedIn training tip – Your Professional Headline should be a marketing phrase, not your job title

Summary:

The Professional Headline in your LinkedIn profile should not just be your current title. It should be a marketing slogan.


May 7, 2009   20 Comments

LinkedIn training tip – Search People should say Search Profiles

Summary:

In the upper right hand corner of your LinkedIn page, it says Search People, but LinkedIn allows you to do so much more, and it really should say “Search Profiles”. See some of what you can do in the following post.


May 4, 2009   1 Comment

LinkedIn training tip – Try nicknames and full names when you search for people

Summary:

LinkedIn knows that Jim is a nickname for James, but it doesn’t know that Vin is a nickname for Vincent. Therefore, when you search for someone, make sure you try both nicknames and formal full names.


April 24, 2009   No Comments

LinkedIn training tip – Best way to put your maiden name into your LinkedIn profile

Summary:

What is the best way to put your maiden name into your LinkedIn profile so that people from your past can find you? Use this new feature of LinkedIn.


April 15, 2009   3 Comments

LinkedIn training tip – Who said “I don’t know this user” to your LinkedIn invitation

LinkedIn tells you not to invite people you don’t know, but they don’t make the punishment clear, and it’s harsh. If 5 people say they don’t know you, you get blacklisted, and you can no longer invite people by name.

Others have written about that part, and I will write about it in the future, but in this post, I’m going to address something no one has written about – how do you find out WHO said “I don’t know this user” to your invitation.


March 31, 2009   70 Comments

LinkedIn training tip for HR and recruiters – a clever talent management technique

If you’re in HR (Human Resources), or you’re a recruiter, you are probably interested in recruiting new talent. I assume you use LinkedIn already. However, here’s a quick tip that may change the way you approach talent management.


March 9, 2009   2 Comments