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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


Welcome!

Who are you and

what brings you here today?


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


Get started


Explore anonymously while building your profile

Photo Icon > Privacy & Settings > Select what others will see when you’ve viewed their profile > Totally anonymous


Photo Icon > Privacy & Settings > Select what others will see when you’ve viewed their profile > Totally anonymous

Explore anonymously while building your profile


Why use LinkedIn?


Who Uses LinkedIn?

259M+

©2013 LinkedIn Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

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


Haixia Jin’sProfile


Job-seekersEmployers

Preferred Method

Advertised postings

Strategies


Selecting trusted people from network

Job-seekersEmployers

Preferred Method

Strategies

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What does this mean to me?


…. Find alumni by what they studied

Alumni Tool


Then find what alumni are doing now

Alumni Tool


Advanced People Search


GROUPS – Queen’s Connects

Join Queen’s Connectsand Sub-Groupfor Graduate /Post-Docs


Research companies


Industry-specific news channel – the value

Begin to think and talk like an insider


Find Job Postings and apply


LinkedIn Photo Opportunity 2015

Career FairSept 29, 2015In the ARC• 10:30am – 3:30 pm

Check Career Services’ website for date and time confirmations.


Resources atstudents.linkedin.com


Resources

www.students.linkedin.com


Tipsheetshttp://careers.queensu.ca/QueensConnects

http://careers.queensu.ca/LinkedIn


LINKEDINhttp://www.LinkedIn.com

http://www.linkedin.com/


For more …

Skills, Resume, Cover letter workshopsAppointment for resume review (or cover letter) Drop-in career advising, M-TH, 1:30-3:30 pm

http://careers.queensu.ca

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