This course provides an overview of LinkedIn, the world's largest social network for professionals serving over 100 million worldwide. It identifies the extensive features and benefits that average users fail to utilize or leverage successfully. Additional courses provide strategic and tactical training for optimizing the effectiveness of LinkedIn as a tool for business owners, sales professionals, consultants, entrepreneurs, working professionals, recent graduates and job seekers.
The topics covered in this course include:
Settings - customize your user experience & privacy
Profiles - share your capabilities and stories as a professional and/or company
Contacts - use LinkedIn's contact management capabilities
Groups - engage with those in your field, industry, community and affinity groups
Inbox - manage your communications with your network
Jobs - find a job, a new employee or a reference for potential employee
Companies - research companies, inside connections, promote services & products
Answers - find an answer or an expert, or share an answer and become an "expert"
News - find the news in sectors of your choosing from WSJ, HBR, USA Today and more.
Applications - Enhance your LinkedIn profile and experience with "apps"