Greendale Jobs Club - Creating a LinkedIn profile

1. Greendale Jobs Club
Creating a LinkedIn profile
www.linkedin.com
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

2. Content Overview
 Sign up
 Confirm your account via email
 Accessing your email contacts
 Selecting email contacts to connect with
 Advertising your profile on Facebook and Twitter
 Choosing an account type
 Your profile page
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

3. Sign up
Type www.linkedin.com into the address bar at the top of your
internet browser. The page below will be displayed
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

4. Sign up
Type in your first and last name. This will be the name appearing
on your profile. Then add your current email address and choose
a password longer than 6 characters
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

5. Sign up
Type in your postal code, if you are currently a job seeker, student
or employed, your latest job title, most recent company and
enter the time period for your latest job. This information will be
added to your profile
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

6. Sign up
LinkedIn allows you to use your email contacts to automatically
notify them that you are have a new LinkedIn profile page
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

7. Confirm your account
You now need to confirm to LinkedIn that you own the email
account you registered with. You can let LinkedIn log into your
account via the ‘Confirm my Windows Live Hotmail Account’
button on the bottom left
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

8. Confirm your account
A pop up window will appear where you can log into your email
account. In this case I am using hotmail.com
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

9. Accessing your email contacts
LinkedIn will ask permission to use your email contacts. You need
to accept this if you would like LinkedIn to automatically email
your contacts, notifying them of your new LinkedIn profile
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

10. Selecting email contacts
Once LinkedIn has access to your email contacts it will show you
a list of people you can connect with. Select the people you
would like to connect with and press the ‘Add Connections’
button on the bottom left of the screen
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

11. Posting to Facebook and Twitter
You can share your new LinkedIn profile on Facebook and Twitter
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

12. Choosing an account type
The basic account will get you up and running for free to get you
started with LinkedIn.
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

13. Profile page
You have created your profile page for LinkedIn  but you aren’t quite
finished. You now need to update your profile which we will be covering
in our next series of ‘How to’ on LinkedIn
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile

14. Link in with us
Each week we will be updating our series of ‘How to’
guides to using LinkedIn. Please follow us at the
following sites:
www.facebook.com/GreendaleJobsClub
www.linkedin.com/in/GreendaleJobsClub
www.greendalejobsclub.wordpress.com
www.twitter.com/GreendaleJC
LinkedIn
Creating a LinkedIn profile