LinkedIn For Good presents a training for workforce development and refugee-serving organizations who want to incorporate LinkedIn 101 into their existing training programs. Use this presentation to train your staff on how to talk about LinkedIn to newcomer populations.
2. What we will cover in this session
1. What is LinkedIn?
2. Building your âProfessional Brandâ
3. Explore Job Paths
4. Tips for Getting Hired
5. Extra Credit: Maximizing LinkedIn
4. Before we tell you how it works, this is who LinkedIn is
LinkedInâs vision: create economic
opportunity for every member of
the global workforce
A set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something
A chance for employment or promotion
op·por·tu·ni·ty
noun
5. Why can LinkedIn jumpstart your career?
6M+
Jobs & internshipsEmployers
10M+
Students
28M+
Professionals &
alumni
460M+
6. LinkedIn is a social media platform for your professional self
People define who they are (in the working world), including:
âą Work history
âą Clubs, groups, or relevant activities
âą Education and qualifications
âą Skills
Organizations (companies, nonprofits, etc.) use LinkedIn to:
âą Hire people to work for them
âą Market and define their business and services
People connect to stay in touch & find opportunities:
âą Jobs
âą New business / Sales
âą Volunteer positionsâŠ.and more!
7. The LinkedIn difference: a professional mindset
Other
social
networks
are for
your
personal
life
LinkedIn
is for your
professional
life
8. Donuts on other social media
I like
donuts
Watch me
eat a
donut
Hereâs a
cool
photo of
my donut
Hereâs a
donut
recipe
Iâm
listening
to
âDonutsâ
Anyone
want a
donut?
9. Donuts on LinkedIn
Here are 3
recommendations
from former donut
colleagues.
My top skills
are donut
production
and sales.
I have three
years
experience
making
donuts.
Iâm looking
for a job at
a donut
company.
I hope to
operate a
donut
franchise
one day.
1 2 3 4 5
12. Meet Marwan
âą 26 year old from Syria
âą Script writer at Swedenâs national theater, Dramaten
âą English translator
âą Worked at a bakery in Turkey
âą Student at Tishreen University
Now
Before
13. Meet Marwan
1
How did LinkedIn help Marwan find new opportunities?
He created his digital professional identity online through LinkedIn
with customized support from Welcome Talent
He connected to professionals who helped him navigate the
job market in Sweden and he researched other peopleâs
career paths
The Result?
Step 1
Step 2
14. Meet Marwan
âą Marwan got an internship at Newsner, Swedenâs largest new
media site, as an editor
âą This internship led him to an opportunity to explore his passions as a
scriptwriter at Swedenâs most prestigous theater
âą Marwan has connections that will help him throughout the rest of his
professional life
Result
15. You can do it all on LinkedIn
Explore jobsBuild your brand Get hired
16. You already have what you need
LinkedIn can help you to develop and showcase them, which can lead to future internship
& job opportunities!
Career
Educati
on
WorkGoals
Interests
Values Skills
18. Company recruiters use LinkedIn
So should you
Source: Jobvite Recruiter Nation Survey, 2015
9 10out of
19. So you can rock your profile
of hiring managers look at profiles
to learn about candidate
75%
Source: LinkedIn Job Search Guide, 2016
85%
of employers say that positive online
reputation influences their hiring decisions
21. Add your country and zip code
Source: LinkedIn Job Search Guide, 2016
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22. Add your most recent job experience
Source: LinkedIn Job Search Guide, 2016
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23. Choose your adventure: Find a job!
Source: LinkedIn Job Search Guide, 2016
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24. Import your email contacts to find people you know
Source: LinkedIn Job Search Guide, 2016
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25. Understand how LinkedIn recruiters find you
Recruiters search on experiences, skills, schools, training programs, and more
26. 6 Key Profile Sections
Photo
Education and Training
Experience
Volunteer experience
Skills
Summary
1
2
3
4
5
6
27. 1 Photo:
where you make your first
impression
21X
Profiles with photos get
21X more views on
average
The shot should be:
â You alone
â From shoulders up, smiling
â With a neutral background
No fancy photographer needed
28. 2 Education and Training:
the foundation of your career
10X
Members who list a school or
training program get 10X
more views on average
â Add your school or training program
â Add your field of study, major and/or degree
â Include clubs you lead and honors youâve
earned
29. 3 Experience:
show what youâve achieved
36X
Profiles with two or more
positions are up to 36X more
likely to be found by recruiters
List internships, summer jobs, and part-time jobs
Bonus: describe what you accomplished
30. 41%
4 Volunteer Experience:
it counts so include it
of hiring managers consider
volunteer experience
equally as valuable as paid
work experience
31. 5
Skills and
recommendations:
raise your ranking in recruiter
searches
5+If you list 5 or more skills, youâll
get up to 17X more profile views
â Great at customer service?
â Know JAVA programming?
â Have foreign language skills?
Add top skills youâve learned
32. 5 Recommendations:
Add credibility and flavor to your
profile
Tips for getting strong recommendations:
Ask former professors,
colleagues, clients
Remind them of your past
projects and
accomplishments
Recommendations
should showcase a
diverse set of skills &
strengths
33. 6 Summary:
your unique story in your own
voice
Be sure to highlight:
â What youâre interested in
â What youâre good at
â Your career goal(s) & future aspirations
Keep it short - No more than two paragraphs!
34. Letâs give it a try
â Set up a profile from the beginning
â Upload a photo
â Add your education or training program
â Add your relevant work experience
â Add volunteer experience
â Add at least 5-10 skills
â Add your summary
36. Your to-do list is overwhelming
â Support your family
â Search for jobs
â Learn a new language
â Sleep
â Choose a career
â Research companies
â Contact people who can help
Knowing where to start is half the battle
37. You can do it all on LinkedIn
Find fellow
alumni
Connect with
people you know
Use messaging to
reach out
38. Connect with people you
know
1
Start with friends, family,
classmates, mentors, teachers, and
of course, anybody youâve ever
worked with!
Click on the âMy Networkâ tab to
start exploring. Donât forget to
personalize connection invitations
so people remember who you are
39. Personalized Connection
Invitations
1
Always personalize your invitation
when connecting with another
LinkedIn member. This makes it
clear to the other person why you
are reaching out â and they are
more likely to accept your invitation.
If you met them before â remind
them when and where!
40. Tip: Import your email
contacts to find more
people to connect with
1
To navigate there:
âą My Network
âą âGrow your networkâ
Note: it auto-selects all contacts
41. Search for people on LinkedIn
Start with the main Search bar
at the top â type in a name.
If you spot them go to their
profile.
If you donât see them
straightaway, hit EnterâŠ
1
42. Discover people on LinkedIn
You can also explore
people on LinkedIn
versus searching for
someone specific.
To navigate there:
âą Hit the search
icon in the search
bar
âą Explore people by
locations,
companies,
industries, and
more!
1
43. Find fellow alumni
2
âą Search by what they studied, where they
work, graduation year
âą Make sure to include a personal note
with your connection request
To navigate there:
âą Find school in the search bar
âą Click âsee alumniâ
âą Select different criteria and explore
profiles
âą Message alumni you want to learn more
from
45. Use messaging to reach
out to your network
3
Chat-style interface for quick conversations.
Research what your connections have been
up to (where they work, what theyâve been
posting, if there are jobs at their company)
â and use messages to connect.
46. Why?
â They work in the jobs or companies
that interest you most
â They can connect you with someone
else who does
What to say?
â Who you are
â How you came across their profile
â How they can help you
Tap your connections and alumni for help
47. Letâs give it a try
â Import your email contacts and send
personalized invitations
â Search and discover people on LinkedIn
â Find and add fellow alumni
â Search for other people you might know
â Send a practice message to a connection
49. You can do it all on LinkedIn
Career Exploration Job Search AppJob Search
Recommendations
& Alerts
50. Networking is still the best way to find a job
of jobs get filled
through networking85%
Source: The Adler Group, LinkedInâs 2017 Global Recruiting Trends report
#1
The top way companies
recruit is through employees
referring people they know
51. Learn whatâs out there by browsing job descriptions
A treasure trove of information
The work youâll
be doing
Company
culture &
what itâs
like to work
there
Who you
know: A foot
in the door
1
53. Search thousands of local
job postings (6M+ total)
2
âą Filter jobs by keyword, title, company,
postal code, function, industry, years of
experience, and date posted
âą Save a search result to get email alerts for
new job postings
âą Hint: if your profile is complete, youâll get
more relevant job listings
To navigate there:
âą Click the âjobsâ tab in the top navigation
bar
âą Start searching for roles, companies, or
just start searching by city
OR
OR
54. 2
5
Initial search for âIT
Technicianâ
Choose the
appropriate level of
experience for you
Use the
filters to
target
specific
locations,
roles,
companies,
etc.
Target your search
Connections you
may have at these
companies
56. Recommended jobs
tailored for you
3
Recipe for relevant jobs:
1. Set your job preferences
2. Ensure your profile is up-to-date
3. To navigate there:
âą Click the âjobsâ tab in the top
navigation bar
âą Click âupdate preferencesâ
âą Select industries, company size
preference, and more; hit âSave.â
âą See all jobs recommended for you!
57. Set up job alerts to stay in the know
Be the first to hear about new jobs that match what you want
Get emails, desktop
and/or mobile
notifications at your
desired frequency
58. Get the LinkedIn Job
Search App
4
Those who apply to jobs on the 1st day theyâre
posted are 10% more likely to land the job.
Get notified when your application has been
viewed, a saved job is about to expire, or when
there are new jobs that meet your search criteria
59. Letâs give it a try
â Research companies youâre interested in
â Search and apply for jobs
â Set up job alerts
â Download the LinkedIn Job Search App
60. 7
Additional sections to add:
Show your work
â Freelance projects
â Writing samples
â Your design portfolio
â Things youâve built
Help employers see the quality of your work
Extra Credit
61. Follow Companies
Be in the know on
employers you want to
work for
Follow âInfluencersâ
Learn from leaders you
admire and the big guns in
industries youâre interested in
Follow Industries
Become an expert by
staying on top of trends
and news
LinkedIn Home Feed
62. More importantly â add connections! See what theyâre saying, and learn
everything you need to be successful
63. You can also search for articles on any topic you like!
65. More on Pulse: Follow people, companies, nonprofits, and
channels to see their updatesâŠright now!
Sample People:
âą Barack Obama
âą Oprah Winfrey
âą David Miliband
Sample Organizations:
âą Your school
âą Your dream company to work
for!
âą Organizations where youâve
worked
âą The nonprofit youâre a part of
Sample Channels
âą Technology
âą Healthcare
âą Engineering
âą Social Impact
66. Manage your Public profile
Update your privacy settings
Create your profile in another language
Try a Job Seeker Premium subscription
Help Center
Questions? Check out LinkedInâs Help Center
Welcome to todayâs workshop, Connect to Opportunity with LinkedIn!
Today weâre going to answer the questions: What is LinkedIn? How can LinkedIn help you in your job search? Youâre going to learn how to create a LinkedIn profile, build your professional network, and apply for jobs via LinkedIn.
Our goal today is for you to:
Understand how LinkedIn can help you build your network in Canada
Create a LinkedIn profile
Feel confident in your ability to leverage LinkedIn in your job search
LinkedIn is a social media platform â like Facebook or Twitter â that connects you to your professional network. There are currently more than 450million LinkedIn members, and the network is growing by 2 members per second. A professional network differs from a social network in that you use it to represent your professional self and career aspirations, rather than your social or personal life.
With LinkedIn, you can connect to opportunitiesâLinkedInâs vision as a company is to connect each and every person in this room, as well as every member of the global workforce, to opportunities. But what do we mean by that?
On LinkedIn, you create a personal profile that displays your work experience, education, skills, and interests.
Once youâve created a profile, you can connect with your friends, family, and professional colleagues on LinkedIn. These connections build up your personal LinkedIn network.
Organizations, such as companies and non-profits, use LinkedIn to post jobs and find qualified candidates with the exact skills they need. With a LinkedIn profile, you can apply directly to jobs posted on LinkedIn. Additionally, you can see if anyone in your network works at, or is connected to someone who works at, the organizations youâre interested in working for. By leveraging these connections, you can build relationships that can help connect you to job opportunities.
LinkedInâs long-term vision is to create a digital mapping of the global economy, called The Economic Graph.
It will include a profile for every one of the 3 billion members of the global workforce, enabling them to represent their professional identity and subsequently find and realize their most valuable opportunities.
It will include a profile for every company in the world, who you know at those companies up to three degrees to help you get your foot in the door, and the product and services those companies offer to enable you to be more productive and successful.
It will digitally represent every job offered by those companies, full-time, temporary and volunteer, and every skill required to obtain those opportunities.
It will include a digital presence for every school in the world that can help members obtain those skills. And it will overlay the professionally relevant knowledge of every one of those individuals, companies, and universities to the extent that they want to publicly share it.
Already, LinkedIn is an incredibly powerful tool for you to find and connect with job opportunities. You can search for and find companies in Toronto that are hiring, and see if you know anyone who works there and can provide a warm recommendation for you. You can see exactly what skills are needed for these jobs, and you can find resources to help you obtain the skills you need.
You may not even realize it yet, but you already have the ingredients for success. You have specific skills you can bring to the table, you have a growing network of people you know who can vouch for you and support you in finding a career, and you have interests that can be translated into a job. There are jobs you may not even realize exist yet.
LinkedIn helps you translate these ingredients of a network, skills, and information into a specific job and career to help you create the life you want to live.
Letâs get started! Iâm going to walk you through the registration process to create a LinkedIn profile. Go to www.linkedin.com and start by entering your first and last name, your email address, and creating a password.
Next, put in your location! The Toronto postal code is M4C 1B5.
Now, LinkedIn asks you to put in your current school if youâre a student, or your current job title if you arenât a student. For this section, just put your most recent job title and company name. Donât worry - you will be able to edit this later.
Next, select the option that youâre using LinkedIn to find a job.
Finally, you have the option to import your email address book, which allows you to find any of your email connections who are already on LinkedIn. If you donât want to import your email address book right now, you can just click the âSkipâ button.
After this step, you will need to confirm your email address via a verification code sent to your email address.
Youâve created an account! You should now see the LinkedIn homepage.
If you click on your name or the blank profile picture, you will be taken to your profile.
Time to build your profile! This blank profile is what you should see now. Weâre going to walk through each of these steps, to help you create a great profile that is reflective of your experiences, skills, education, interests, and aspirations.
Adding a profile photo is key â profiles with a photo get 14x more views than a profile without a photo. Adding a photo helps humanize your profile and makes you more approachable. Make sure you are smiling in your picture! A smile makes for a great first impression in Canada.
You donât have to enlist the help of a professional photographer â just ensure youâre dressed professionally and alone in the shot and you can even take a photo with the help of a colleague.
Please come up to me afterwards if you want me to take a photo of you! Iâm happy to take one on my phone and email it to you.
Your headline is the phrase that appears next to your name throughout LinkedIn. If you have a job, itâs common to use your job title and company as your headline. However, itâs even more effective to use the headline to show your value and passion in one quick line. What do you do, or what do you want to do? How do you characterize yourself professionally? The examples here are all different, but are each strong examples of how LinkedIn members can indicate their passions and interests to their extended networks.
As we move into the experience sections, I want to be sure and explain how LinkedIn differs from a traditional resume or CV. Itâs much more holistic, and allows you to tell your personal story. Itâs not just a series of bullet points!
You will see a variety of different sections you can add to your profile. Some of the most important sections are Summary, Experience, and Education. However, you can go beyond that to add your Language skills, Projects youâve worked on, your Volunteering experience, any Organizations youâre a member of, and much more.
Companies find qualified candidates for their open jobs by searching for keywords on LinkedIn. For that reason, itâs important to add descriptions to each section. If you donât have a relevant keyword on your profile, you wonât come up in a search for that keyword. You can maximize your odds of finding a job on LinkedIn by including as much detail as possible.
Next, take a minute to think about your Summary. Your Summary sits at the top of your LinkedIn profile, and is your chance to briefly tell your story. A good formula is to reference what youâve done in the past and what youâre doing now, but ultimately to focus on your future potential and aspirations.
See this example: âI am passionate about hospitality and making others feel welcome. In Syria, I ran a successful hotel that welcomed in visitors from all over the globe. Today, I am pursuing opportunities in the Toronto area that will allow me to leverage my extensive experience in the hotel and hospitality industry. Please reach out if you know of any opportunities!â
Again, adding a summary of 40 words or more makes your profile more likely to turn up in a future employerâs search. A good tip is to ensure your summary includes keywords featured in desirable job descriptions for your field. Describe your experience and tell the world why you work in your chosen career. Avoid buzzwords (examples: strategic, team player, creative) and focus on your career accomplishments. If you feel uncomfortable sharing your accomplishments so directly, know that in Canada this is completely normal and, indeed, important in order to demonstrate your qualifications.
Hereâs the meat of your LinkedIn profile: your past work experience.
Click the âAdd Positionâ button to add additional roles. Be sure to include all past jobs, including part-time jobs and professional work experience. Include the Company name, your Job Title, and the location of the role. Add the time period that you worked there. Finally add a description of what you did in that role. What did you accomplish in each role? What did you learn?
Remember, this is beyond a simple resume: this is an opportunity to tell your story of career growth.
If you attended high school or university, you can add that in the Education section. Adding your education is a great way not only to show your qualifications, but also gives you an opportunity to connect with other alumni from your school who may in the Toronto area.
There are multiple fields here, but the key ones to fill out are the School name, the dates attended, and the degree or field of study if relevant.
Finally, add skills! What are your areas of expertise? Skills can include anything from public speaking, to customer service, to childcare, to business development. Take some time to think about what kinds of skills you have. Just click âeditâ and start adding!
Adding skills and expertise makes it easy for your connections to endorse you for your knowledge and strengths, and helps you show up in relevant searches for companies looking for someone with your skills. Be sure to endorse the skills and expertise of your connections as well â it will encourage them to do the same for you.
And last but certainly not least in this section: Ask for recommendations.
There are few things that can help your job search as much as someone vouching for who you are and why you should be hired.
Ask some of your connections â like former coworkers and clients â to write recommendations of your work. Getting a strong recommendation usually requires asking for one, so donât be afraid to make a delicate request. Reassure someone that these can be short paragraphs, and can take less than 10 or 15 minutes.
We covered some of the most important sections today, but be sure to go back and see if thereâs anything else you can add! The more information you have on your LinkedIn profile, the more accurate your suggested jobs will be.
Youâve created your LinkedIn profile. Now weâre going to talk about how to use it to build your network. There are many different types of people on LinkedIn, which means that you can get connected to many different types of opportunities on the site.
Opportunities donât appear out of nowhere â they are connected to people. The best way to meet new people is via the people you already know. Think back to when you got your very first job. Did you get it via someone who was a family member or friend? Itâs always easier to get a job somewhere when you know someone who works there and can help you prepare. All kinds of people are on LinkedIn, from all different ages and backgrounds. Even if you donât think of your current network as being able to help you professionally in Canada, I promise itâs easy to build it and leverage it to connect to job opportunities!
Your network is basically the people you know in life; in order for them to be helpful on LinkedIn, you need to connect with them! Start off by searching for the people you already know in real life, under the My Network tab.
If you click âConnectionsâ it will show you all your current connections.
âAdd Contactsâ will allow you to import your address book from your email address.
âPeople You May Knowâ will make suggestions based on your current connections and work experience.
âFind Alumniâ will help you find other graduates of your university.
The easiest way to add someone to your network is from their LinkedIn profile. Click the âConnectâ button, and youâll be taken the invitation page. Always include a personal note instead of the default text! If youâre adding someone who youâve just met once, it may be helpful to include where you met them.
Generally, itâs best to only connect with people who you actually know. However, an exception might be if you are reaching out to someone with something in common with you, such as if they went to the same university or are also new to Canada and have recently found a job in an industry youâre interested in.
When reaching out to someone who you donât already know, be sure to write a note explaining why youâd like to connect.
Groups are communities within LinkedIn that allow you to find and connect with people and build your network. You can find and join LinkedIn groups by searching for groups from the Search field at the top of your homepage. There are multiple groups on LinkedIn for each interest, organization, or affiliation. Find groups based on your industry or the industries you are interested in getting into.
Weâve created a group for everyone here today, so that we can all stay in touch! Please search for Welcome Talent Canada and ask to join. This makes it easier for us all to find and connect with each other.
Alright, so youâve made your LinkedIn profile and added connections. Now youâre ready to start finding and applying to jobs on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn aggregates jobs from all over the internet, so itâs a very comprehensive database of open jobs. Click on the âJobsâ tab (circled) to find your personalized Jobs portal, showing suggestions of jobs based on the experiences youâve listed on your profile.
Then click on âSet up your jobs preferencesâ or the âPreferencesâ tab to set preferences for the kinds of jobs youâre interested in.
Under the âPreferencesâ tab, select your ideal location (Toronto!), the range of your experience, and the industries youâre interested in working in. Feel free to a variety of different industries!
Once you save your preferences, they will be factored into what jobs are suggested to you.
If you click back to the âDiscoverâ tab, you will now see a variety of different jobs in the Toronto area that might be a good fit. Click on them to see more information.
If you find a job youâre interested in, itâs easy to apply! Make sure your LinkedIn profile is up to date, and then just click the âApplyâ button. Add your contact information. If you want to attach your resume, you can also do that here. Then hit âSend applicationâ and youâre all set!
If you click back to the âMy jobsâ tab, you will be able to track the jobs youâve applied to.
Profile and job search checklist here:
https://content.linkedin.com/content/dam/premium/jobsearch/PDFAssets/Job_Search_Checklist.pdf
Letâs review our objectives for today!
Do youâŠ
Understand how LinkedIn can help you build your network in Canada?
Know how to create your LinkedIn profile?
Feel confident in your ability to leverage LinkedIn in your job search?
Please let me know if you have any questions now â Iâm happy to help, and want to make sure you have the knowledge and skills you need to get started using LinkedIn for your job search.