Moving Your Online Networking into Offline Networking Using LinkedIn Events

LinkedIn Events You built a strong online community, but there is more to networking than the number of connections you have. You need to take your online networking offline. But how do you do this? Find LinkedIn Events and see the networking events or Cleared Job Fairs that your connections are attending. You have to add the Events Application to your LinkedIn Profile. Under More, click on Events

Applications - Events

Once you have clicked Events, you will see a full menu of the applications that are available to add to your LinkedIn profile. In this list of applications you will find Events. Click on Events.

Adding Events to your Profile

You will need to select to add the Events to your Profile and to your Homepage. This will then show on your LinkedIn profile which Events you are attending. Only the Events that you select that you are attending will show up on your LinkedIn profile. You will have to go to the LinkedIn events directory.

LinkedIn Events Directory

Search for Events in the Search Events box You will also see the Events that people in your network are attending.

Finding Your Event in the Event Listing After you have searched for your Event, such as Cleared Job Fair, you will find the listing for the Event. Click on the Event title, in this case Cleared Job Fair

Attending an Event

Select that you are Attending an Event. You can also add this to your Event calendar in Outlook. Once you have done this, your attendance to the Event will show up in your Status Updates to your network. You can also add a message about your Event attendance as to the kind of job you will be looking for or the kind of position you will be talking to candidates about.

Success! See you at the next Cleared Job Fair – or any other networking Event listed on LinkedIn!