How to Sign Up and Login in to LinkedIn: To sign up to LinkedIn, a candidate or a professional need to follow certain steps. After completion of these mentioned steps, one can be considered as a registered LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is the top online directory of professionals and companies. Both individuals and companies use LinkedIn for professional networking, recruiting, job searching, career building, and staying in touch with connections.
Hundreds of companies use LinkedIn's Talent Solutions, a tool that helps hiring managers and recruiters use LinkedIn to find job candidates. Other companies use LinkedIn independently to find and recruit potential employees.
Because employers use LinkedIn for hiring purposes, it is important for job seekers to have a presence on LinkedIn, and use the site actively. As the saying goes, you want to fish where the fishes are.
Read below for information on how to sign up for LinkedIn, how to create a strong profile, and how to log in once you have created a profile.
Information Needed to Sign Up for LinkedIn
In order to log in to LinkedIn, you'll first need to sign up to join. Luckily, it’s free – and simple – to create a LinkedIn account. Here is how:
- Visit LinkedIn
- Enter your first and last name
- Enter your email address
- Create a password (choose your own password; must be six or more characters)
- Click “Join now”
Create a LinkedIn Profile
After you have signed up for a LinkedIn account, you'll be able to create your LinkedIn profile. You should include all the same information as your resume – your past and present employment, education, volunteer experience, and skills. You can also add a summary at the top of your profile, which is similar to a resume summary.
Use your profile like a resume and provide prospective employers with detailed information about your skills and experience. With a more complete LinkedIn profile, you're more likely to be contacted by a recruiter or employer.
You also have to make a headline for your LinkedIn profile. Your LinkedIn headline appears just below your name.
It is a short statement (not a full sentence) that declares who you are as a professional. It is essentially your online brand that you're putting out there to the world – that's because your headline, name, and photo are the only things a LinkedIn user sees when searching a LinkedIn database and discovering your profile. Those elements determine whether the reader will click through to your full profile.
Since it is a way to interest a reader, make your headline grabs the reader’s attention. “Branding manager seeking new opportunity” is dull, but “Technology products branding exec looking to make small businesses skyrocket” shows how you might add value to a company.
You can also add a photo to your LinkedIn profile. You typically want the photo to be a headshot, and you want to look professional in the photo.
LinkedIn also offers you an option to add a background photo to your profile page. If you choose to do this, use an image related to your professional life. For example, if you are a graphic designer, you might include an image you created. If you are an art historian, you might include an image of a painting you have written about.
Finally, make your profile unique. If you're simply creating a dull laundry list of previous jobs, add some elements to jazz up your profile, like a presentation video, a speech you gave, or a link to an article you've published. Click on “Add New Profile Section,” and then click on “Accomplishments,” to see how to add a project or other unique component to your page.
How to Log In to LinkedIn
Once you have created a profile, you'll be able to log in to your LinkedIn account to update your profile, connect with networking contacts, send messages to those contacts, job search, find information on hiring companies, and join career- and business-related groups. Here is how to log in:
- Visit LinkedIn
- Enter your email address
- Enter your password
- Click “Sign in”
- You should be brought to your 'Home' page. Click on 'Me' in the top right corner of the page to go to your profile and make any edits.
It's important to log in to LinkedIn on a regular basis to work on building your network of contacts and to keep your profile updated.
Networking on LinkedIn
It's critical to put in the time to build your profile, add to your connections, and effectively use your contacts to aid in your job search. It's also important to give back and help your connections when they need advice and referrals – networking is about building relationships rather than just asking for assistance, and it works both ways.
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