• Proofread your profile carefully

• Customise your headline to give people a clear idea of your area of career interest

• Write an effective summary that includes key skills that are relevant for your career

• Make sure that your picture is of just you and is appropriate for the professional setting

• Personalise your URL, add your pronouns and record your pronunciation of your name

• If appropriate add a profile in another language

• You can select what others see when you've viewed their profile

• Private mode is great while you are developing your profile

• Don't forget to set it to display your name and headline when you are ready to be visible

How to change your Visibility:

1. click on the arrow below your profile photo

2. select Settings & Privacy

3. select Visibility from left hand menu

4. select Profile viewing options

5. choose Private mode to go incognito!

   
   

• Start by adding friends, course mates, colleagues and University staff that you know

• Add people who work for companies you want to work for or are in roles you are interested in. Always include a tailored note with the request explaining why you would like to connect and highlighting any link or mutual connection you have.

• Join Groups relevant to your interests and actively participate in discussions.

• When you receive connection requests from people you don't know, look at their profile to assess if they are relevant to you. Avoid connecting with bots and people trying to sell you something.

A: Premium is not beneficial for most users. It’s designed for recruiters or salespeople.

Q: Should I include a link to my LinkedIn profile on my CV?

A: Yes, as long as it is professional, and it adds something.

Q: Do you recommend using LinkedIn for job searching?

A: This depends on the industry and how you use the platform. The LinkedIn Jobs tab tends to have less entry level roles and more mid-senior roles, so it is not an accurate reflection of the labour market as a whole.

Tips for filtering your search:

• Change the start/end dates

• Filter by subject studied to explore career paths of graduates from your discipline. TIP: use the main search bar to add a specific course title or subject

• If you plan to relocate filter by where they live to identify companies in that area/country

• Identify graduates working in a specific company using the where they work filter

Scroll down to see a selection of profiles based on your search:

• TIP: don't click on Connect as this sends an automatic request. Instead, view the profile - you will then be able to add a note to your connection request

• View Experience to explore their career journey

• View their Interests for ideas of companies to follow and groups to join

• Identify Strathclyde graduates via where they studied

Here, you can:

• select Open to Work and choose who will see this

• search for jobs, for example: add policy and research to main search bar

• filter by location/company/experience level/remote according to your preferences

  
  

• View posts to learn more about their work, company culture/values

• View jobs, register for alerts

• Note affiliated pages and follow ones that are of interest

• Connections you have that work for the organisation are also highlighted

Example of a much smaller organisation: Charlotte Street Partners

LinkedIn: Nicola Sutherland

• Get Started with LinkedIn for Students

• Get Started with LinkedIn for Graduates

Social Media for Job searching page.