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Creating your LinkedIn Profile Expanding Horizons
Julia BlackstockCareer Counsellor
Gordon Hall, 74 Union Street, 3rd floorT: 613-533-2992 W: careers.queensu.ca
Queen’s University Career Services
@mycareerqueensu
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Welcome!
Who are you and
what brings you here today?
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Goals for Today
• What LinkedIn can (and can’t) do for you• What a Profile is and can be• Photo• Headlines, Industry, and Summary• Education• Experience• Skills and Endorsements• Next steps
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Get started
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Explore anonymously while building your profile
Photo Icon > Privacy & Settings > Select what others will see when you’ve viewed their profile > Totally anonymous
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Explore anonymously while building your profile
Photo Icon > Privacy & Settings > Select what others will see when you’ve viewed their profile > Totally anonymous
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Photo Icon > Privacy & Settings > Select what others will see when you’ve viewed their profile > Totally anonymous
Explore anonymously while building your profile
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Why use LinkedIn?
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Who Uses LinkedIn?
259M+
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9
professionals
3M+companies
150+industries
Executives from every
Fortune 50060K+college and university alumni groups
64%64% outside the U.S.
company
30M+students and recent grads
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Haixia Jin’sProfile
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Job-seekersEmployers
Preferred Method
Advertised postings
Strategies
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Selecting trusted people from network
Job-seekersEmployers
Preferred Method
Strategies
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What does this mean to me?
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…. Find alumni by what they studied
Alumni Tool
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Then find what alumni are doing now
Alumni Tool
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Advanced People Search
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GROUPS – Queen’s Connects
Join Queen’s Connectsand Sub-Groupfor Graduate /Post-Docs
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Research companies
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Industry-specific news channel – the value
Begin to think and talk like an insider
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Find Job Postings and apply
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LinkedIn Photo Opportunity 2015
Career FairSept 29, 2015In the ARC• 10:30am – 3:30 pm
Check Career Services’ website for date and time confirmations.
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Resources atstudents.linkedin.com
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Resources
www.students.linkedin.com
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Tipsheetshttp://careers.queensu.ca/QueensConnects
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LINKEDINhttp://www.LinkedIn.com
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For more …
Skills, Resume, Cover letter workshopsAppointment for resume review (or cover letter) Drop-in career advising, M-TH, 1:30-3:30 pm
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