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Presenting: Intro to

Presented by:Dan Kirsch

Owner of Protingent Staffing

What we will cover today

•Why LinkedIn?•How to Sign-up•Designing your profile•Features•Next Steps

****PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS AT ANY TIME DURING THE TALK****

About your host

•Owner of Protingent Staffing www.protingent.com 877-431-2190•Specialize in Temporary Engineers•OSA Board Member•Past IEEE Program Chair – MTT/ED Groups

So Why LinkedIn?

•Over 40 million people in 200 countries are using it•Most top recruiters have extensive networks•Increases your branding and candidate pool•Why not?

Getting rolling

•Sign up here: www.LinkedIn.com

•You can choose a free account or a variety of paid accounts

•Paid accounts = advanced features! If you plan on using this site to recruit, you’ll likely need to pay.

Setting up your profile

•Make sure you paint an accurate picture of your background

•Add all your email addresses to LinkedIn

•Design your profile like a Marketing piece for you/your company

•Make sure you use all of your allotted space for your summary and specialties!!

Review/Edit your profile

Questions on Profile Set-up?

Additional Features

•Make sure you paint an accurate picture of your background

•Add all your email addresses to LinkedIn

•Design your profile like a Marketing piece for you/your company

•Make sure you use all of your allotted space for your summary and specialties!!

•Make sure you use keywords so people will find you!

Next Steps

•Build your network!

•Quantity usually equals quality – You get more results, thus more to pick from.

•Join Groups, local and national – you can only join 50!

•Upload contact lists from Outlook and others

•Network growth takes time, so just keep at it.

Thank you!

•This was the baseline•Network building is another training, so let me know if there is any interest!

Dan Kirschdan@protingent.com

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