LinkedIn

LinkedIn allows you to search for relevant jobs as per your area of expertise. Since you may have several connections added to your LinkedIn profile, there may be times when you come across job openings that may be of interest to some of your connections. LinkedIn allows you to share such job...

If you are the owner of a group (or even if you are a member), you can send up to one announcement per week to group members. All the group members who have configured their settings to receive the relevant group emails are then notified about the announcement via an email. In addition to...

While using LinkedIn, you'll want to increase your network in order to expand your visibility and get more job opportunities. The first thing that you can do in order to expand your social network on LinkedIn is to connect with other LinkedIn users.. In order to connect to people on LinkedIn...

If you have created a company page on LinkedIn, sometimes it might be important for you to allow only a few people and not all the followers of the page to view a particular update that you post on your LinkedIn page. In order to respect your privacy and your company’s norms, LinkedIn allows...

Just like many other social networking websites, LinkedIn allows you to block unwanted members from your profile. When you block a LinkedIn user from your profile, neither of you can access each other’s profiles, and you remain invisible to each other. In addition to this, any endorsements that...

LinkedIn allows you to search people who are also the members of LinkedIn. You can search for people by their names. Once you have performed a people search on LinkedIn, you can save the search that you have performed. You might want to save the search so that you can perform the same search to...

Once you have provided a recommendation for a connection on LinkedIn, you can revise the brief description that you added while recommending the person. In addition to this, if you want, you can also withdraw the recommendation altogether. There can be several reasons for revising or...

If an employer you have worked for is one of your connections on LinkedIn, you can ask them to provide you with a recommendation for your profile. Although most of the time your employers would recommend you for your skills and your work on their own, a request to the employers for a...

When you close your LinkedIn account, your account does not get permanently deleted until 20 days after you make the request. This means that you can reopen your LinkedIn account within the 20 days after you have deleted your account. In order to reopen your deleted LinkedIn account, you must...

Besides automatically inviting all of your contacts from the email account you used to register on LinkedIn, it also allows you to synchronize the contacts from other, widely used email addresses and/or sources. In order synchronize the contacts from the other sources, you are required to go to...

If you have ever hired an employee and liked their work, you can recommend the person on LinkedIn if they are one of your connections. When you recommend a person on LinkedIn, your recommendation is displayed on their LinkedIn profile that can be viewed by all of his/her connections and the...

Although it'is unlikely that you would ever want to remove a LinkedIn connection from your profile, you might want to do so if any particular connection is behaving obnoxiously or you think the connection may harm your reputation. The process of removing a LinkedIn connection is more or less...

If you have a LinkedIn account and you also play a leading role in your organization, or even if you own one, you might want to promote your LinkedIn profile on your personal blog, website, or forum in order to gain popularity and increase visibility. In order to help you in the process of...

LinkedIn profiles are set up to receive endorsements from other users regarding your skills. Profile owners can be endorsed on skills by all of their connections. In most cases it is advisable that you leave the endorsements on and allow your connections to commend you on your skills. On the...

While creating your LinkedIn profile using any valid email address, LinkedIn allows you to import your email contacts to your profile. Imported contacts receive an automatically generated email notification inviting them to join LinkedIn. The process is somewhat semi-automated and not much of...

LinkedIn as a full-fledged and professionally equipped social networking website, also allows you to introduce one connection to another or many other connections. You might want to introduce one of your connections to others in order to broaden his/her career opportunities and to help him/her...

Although the LinkedIn profile creation process prompts you to import your email contacts if from the email address that you have used to register for your LinkedIn profile, you can do it later on if you skipped that step. Besides importing the email contacts from the email address associated...

Apart from importing your contacts from your LinkedIn associated email and other email addresses, LinkedIn also allows you to import your contacts from Outlook. Since Outlook is one of the most popular and widely used email clients, a large number of corporate and home users configure Outlook...

While using your LinkedIn account it is likely that you will be endorsed by your connections on the skills that you possess. Although it is a good way to brag about your area of expertise, sometimes you might not want some of your endorsed skills to be seen by anyone. In this case, you can hide...

By default, your LinkedIn profile is configured to show all your updates only to your connections - the people who are added to your LinkedIn profile. In most situations, the default configuration is ideal as it is expected that you want to display your current activities on your LinkedIn...