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LinkedIn for Student Veterans:
“Leveraging Career and Professional Success”
linkedin.studentveterans.org
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Who am I?
Agenda
1) Planning for your career as a student veteran.
2) Developing and expanding network relationships.
3) Using LinkedIn to develop your career and achieve your personal and
chapter-based career objectives.
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SVA – LinkedIn Partnership
• We are focusing SVA’s professional communications through the LinkedIn platform.
• We are mobilizing student veterans and SVA chapters to actively develop their careers through
higher education.
• We are training student veterans to make use of LinkedIn to advance their personal and chapter-
based career objectives.
• We are building professional network communities for our SVA chapters, alumni, partners and
sponsors, industry experts, employers, and mentors.
• We are connecting professional opportunity seekers to those with professional opportunities.
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Start Now! Why?
• Every Fortune 1000 company is on LinkedIn, and heavily uses LinkedIn Recruiter.
• 94% of recruiters use LinkedIn to vet job candidates.
• 87% of recruiters use LinkedIn specifically to find candidates for jobs.
• 85% of all jobs are heard about and found through a social network.
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Professional Network: Roadmap to Success
530M
Members
18M
Companies
11M
Jobs
50k
Skills26K
SchoolsBillions of
updates
daily
I’m a Student…Why Join LinkedIn?
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1) Establish and define your professional identity.
2) Expand and develop your network relationships.
3) Prepare and connect to an economy of opportunity.
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LinkedIn Is Not Social Media
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LinkedIn vs. Resume: Person vs. PDF
Creating SVA Chapter Success
• We are training and mobilizing student veterans to make use of LinkedIn to advance their individual & chapter based career objectives.
• Program is available to chapter leaders who are looking to institute career and professional-focused programming for their SVA chapters.
• Curriculum developed by the Veterans Program at LinkedIn on developing their professional identity and to empower the building of chapter-specific professional networks.
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4-Part Curriculum
1. Tell your professional story
and be found by others.
2. Recruit, build, and maintain
your professional support
network.
3. Understand the “way in” to
civilian career opportunities.
4. Maintain and advance
knowledge to stay at the top of
your field.
Cycle of Program
SVA
Student Veterans
LinkedIn trains SVA HQ.
- Program created.
- Develops “talent pipeline” for employers, sponsors, supporters, mentors, etc.
SVA HQ trains Chapter.
- Chapter Officer role created.
-- “Career Development Officer”.
Chapter trains chapter members, student veterans.
- Establishes career development programming as a staple for chapter events.
- Individual student veterans are actively thinking about and contributing to career, connected to “talent pipeline”.
1. Your Starting Point
veterans.linkedin.com
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Premium
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*Also ensure that you have properly identified your military service on your profile (instructions included on webpage).
Enroll in LinkedIn Learning
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LinkedIn for Veterans Translating Your Military Skills to the Civilian
Workplace
Finding Your Purpose After Active Duty
2. Follow the SVA Company Page on LinkedIn
linkedin.studentveterans.org
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3. Join SVA’s Professional Development Community
linkedin.studentveterans.org
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4. Become a Trainer of Career Success for SVA
linkedin.studentveterans.org
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“Don’t overthink things, just get sh*t done.”
-Me
Eric Gage
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