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Using Tools and Connecting with Potential Employers

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Using Tools and Connecting with Potential Employers

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Answer the questions - Comment below:

What tools can you use to tell other people about your professional qualifications?

How can you find and connect with potential employers?

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Answer the questions - Comment below:

Have you ever used LinkedIn? What are some of
its features?

How can it help you find a job?

Watch the video, then do the following:

Create your LinkedIn account.

NOTE: If you already have a LinkedIn account you can use this time to update it from the tips you get.

Video link:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-linkedin-2023/set-up-a-new-linkedin-account?autoplay=true&trk=learning-course_tocItem&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning

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Watch the videos and learn:

Making your Profile stand out

Adding a Profile Picture and Background Image

Writing your Headline

Then:

Add your profile picture and background image (the background image is optional)

Write your headline following the guidelines.

Video Links ->

Adding a profile picture: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-linkedin-2021/add-a-profile-picture?autoplay=true&trk=learning-course_tocItem&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning

Adding a background image:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-linkedin-2021/add-a-background-image?autoplay=true&trk=learning-course_tocItem&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning

Writing your headline:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-linkedin-19899255/personalize-your-headline?autoplay=true&trk=learning-course_tocItem&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning

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From the course: Learning LinkedIn

Add a profile picture

- [Instructor] The first thing that people notice when they land on your LinkedIn page is usually your profile picture. For this reason, it's crucial that you take the time to add a profile picture that represents you the way you want to be perceived. LinkedIn members with a profile picture receive many more views, messages and interactions compared to profiles with no photo. So again, this is an important step. Let's take a look at how to do this. Now we've created an account as Carmen Morales, but we don't have a profile picture yet. To add one, I'm going to come here where it says me and click view profile. So this is Carmen's profile page, but again, we have no photo here yet. To add one, we'll click this camera icon that brings up this pop-up box saying, "No professional headshot needed. Just something that represents you." This is important to mention because oftentimes people don't include a profile picture because they don't have a professional headshot to use. Now, although you do want to have a high quality picture that represents you well, don't let this be an obstacle. If you do have a professional headshot, use it. If not, current smartphones and cameras allow you to take high quality photographs, which will work just fine. You can even take a photo right from here by clicking use camera. But in this case, I do have a photo saved to my desktop that I want to use. So I'll click upload photo. I'll select the photo on my desktop, and click open, and now the photo is open inside of this editor. And from here I can drag to reposition it or zoom in and out. I can also straighten that picture or tilt it if necessary. Ideally, you want people to see your face, but you don't want to be zoomed too far out or too far in. In addition to these tools we find under crop, we also have filters where you can select different looks for the photo. Just go with the original in this case, and you can also select adjust to adjust other things like brightness, contrast, saturation, and so on. Just play with the settings until you have it looking the way you like. Down here at the bottom, you can also set your visibility settings to specify who will see this photo. I think in most cases, you'll want the default setting of anyone, which makes sure your photo will show up to anyone who comes across your profile. But you can set your visibility based on your preferences. You can also change these settings later. When you're done, click save photo and I'll just refresh the page. So you can see here that Carmen's profile picture now appears on her LinkedIn account. Now, when selecting a photograph of your account, these are a few things you should consider. First of all, is it a recent photograph? You want people to be able to recognize you based on this picture. This means you'll probably need to update it every once in a while. Also, bear in mind that even though you don't need a professional headshot, you also don't want a blurry or pixelated one. It should be a sharp, well-lit shot. Also, remember that LinkedIn is a social media platform for professional connections, so you likely want to have your photograph reflect this by showing you dressed professionally or smartly, and not one of you in vacation attire at the beach. Again, if you've already had a professionally done headshot, you want to use that. However, you can easily take your own picture using a digital camera or smartphone. Just be conscious of the framing, the lighting, the background, and the overall tone the image conveys.

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Add a profile picture - LinkedIn Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com

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The first thing that people notice when they land on your LinkedIn page is usually your profile picture. For this reason, it's crucial that you take the time to add a profile picture that represents you the way you want to be perceived. This video shows how to add and edit a profile photo.

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More tips for improving your LinkedIn profile

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More tips for improving your LinkedIn profile

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You can watch this video link to find more tips on improving your LinkedIn profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-linkedin-19899255/set-up-a-new-linkedin-account?autoplay=true&trk=learning-course_tocItem&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning

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From the course: Learning LinkedIn

Set up a new LinkedIn account

- [Instructor] Let's start by taking a look at how to set up a new LinkedIn profile. In order to demonstrate this, throughout parts of the course, I'll be setting up and working with a fictitious account for Carmen Morales. We'll start by navigating to linkedin.com, and this is also the page you'll use to sign in with once you have an account created. Now, keep in mind that the look and layout of the signup page may change, but the process for signing up will be the same. To create a new account, we just come here to the upper right corner and click Join Now. You can create an account with an existing email address, or you can sign in with your Google account if you have one. For this example, I'll use an email address. Next, create a secure password. Currently you're required to come up with a password that's at least six characters. And as with all passwords, for security purposes, it should be unique, and not one you've used for other websites. And I'll click Agree & Join. Next, you'll need to fill out some more information, starting with your first name and last name. This is how your name will be displayed on your profile. I'll click Continue. Next, it's going to ask me where I'm currently located. For this example, we'll say we're in California. Then it prompts me to enter the most recent job title. And in this case, we'll say that Carmen is a creative director. We'll say she's employed full-time and she works for Red30. We'll continue. Now, here you'll have to enter a verification code that will be sent to your email. I'll switch over to Carmen's email inbox. And here's the message. So we'll just copy that and paste it in. Now it asks, are you looking for a new job? You can click Yes or Not Really or No. For now, I'm going to click, "Not really but would consider the right opportunity." And click Next. And if you do choose that, it's asking, what kind of job are you looking for? We'll just put in Creative Director again. And we'll say in Los Angeles. And this setting will provide me notifications when new jobs for creative directors are posted. I'm going to turn that off for now. And I'm also going to turn this off now to share with recruiters. We'll be talking about how to make yourself open to recruiters a little bit later. Here we're prompted to download the mobile app for LinkedIn, which is a very useful app to have. I'll just skip that for now. But the mobile app does allow you to do most of what you can do through the desktop website as well, so be sure to download it onto your own mobile device. And on this page, you're asked if you want to follow some companies or watch some LinkedIn Learning courses. This is all about customizing your account by asking what types of companies or interests you want to follow. In this case, I'll follow LinkedIn News, which is the only one here, but you'll see more listed when you set up your real account. I'll click Next. And just like that, Carmen's account has been created, but it's far from complete. Throughout the rest of this chapter, we'll take a look at how we can continue to customize your profile in order to make it stand out and help you achieve your goals.

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Set up a new LinkedIn account - LinkedIn Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com

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This video explains how to set up a brand-new LinkedIn account.

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https://www.linkedin.com/

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1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

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Use this area to share your LinkedIn profile links for your classmates (once it is completed).

How to share: Make a comment below with the 'link' to your LinkedIn profile!

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We have been working on our CV/Resume this week.

Next week, I would like each of you to present your CV/Resume to the class as an oral (spoken) presentation.

You do not need to give out your personal contact information, just describe and talk about the way you wrote the following:

Your education

Your work experience (if any)

Your skills

Your hobbies (remember these must be professionally appropriate)

You have the rest of this week and Monday next week to finish completing your CV/Resume (see the Google docs link for anything you don't remember)

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