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Chapter 1Looking into LinkedInIn This Chapter▶ Getting to know your networking toolkit▶ Understanding the different degrees of network connections▶ Ge

18Part I: LinkedIn Basics can really learn more by finding past employees of a company and interview-ing them about their previous job. LinkedIn now h

19 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedInYou can also meet new people through various groups on LinkedIn, whether it’s an alumni group from your old school,

20Part I: LinkedIn Basics If you want to step up to a paid account, some of the main features include ✓ Sending a message to anyone in the LinkedIn co

21 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedIn Figure 1-4: Compare differ-ent paid account features on LinkedIn. As of this writing, LinkedIn offers three premiu

22Part I: LinkedIn Basics • Expanded profile views and a total of 500 search results outside your network when you search. • Twenty-five folders to

23 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedIn LinkedIn accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover to pay for your premium account. Make sure the

24Part I: LinkedIn Basics Figure 1-6: Choose the premium account that’s right for you. Figure 1-7: Enter your billing information. 05_9780470948545-

25 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedInNavigating around LinkedInWhen you’re ready to get started, you can sign up for an account by checking out Chapter

26Part I: LinkedIn Basics ✓ Home: Link to your personal LinkedIn home page. ✓ Profile: Links to the profile and Recommendations part of LinkedIn ✓ Co

27 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedInAt the Account & Settings page, you first see the settings for your particular account level, especially if you

10Part I: LinkedIn Basics In this chapter, I introduce you to LinkedIn and the basic services it has to offer. I answer the question “What is LinkedIn

28Part I: LinkedIn Basics Figure 1-11: Update your account settings for LinkedIn here. ✓ RSS Settings: Enable RSS feeds, which is a collection of an

11 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedInyou can use LinkedIn to see whether Eric’s friend works for a company you want to contact, and you can then use Lin

12Part I: LinkedIn Basics Figure 1-1: See all your connections in one cen-tralized list. The different degrees of network connectionsIn the LinkedIn

13 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedIn ✓ Second-degree network members: People who know at least one member of your first-degree network connections: in

14Part I: LinkedIn Basics The account in Figure 1-2 has 303 direct first-degree connections. When you add all the network connections that each of the

15 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedInThe Things You Can Do with LinkedInTime to find out what kinds of things you can do on LinkedIn. The following sect

16Part I: LinkedIn Basics Figure 1-3: Create a unified pro-file page to showcase your pro-fessional history. The best part is that this is your profe

17 Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedIn ✓ Finding information about a company and position before the interview ✓ Searching posted job listings on a job b