Presenting Yourself Online with LinkedIn - Digital Skills Education

What we covered

An introduction to LinkedIn, and understand how it works
How to present yourself to a professional audience
Complete practical tasks to build your profile
Learn how to make new professional contacts

You’ll find some helpful reading below under Further Reading. Just click on the “+” sign to expand each section.

It’s important to take away as much information and learning from this as possible, so we’ve included some additional links below.

What we learned

How to update your LinkedIn profile.
How to add skills to your profile to show your expertise and strengths.
How to search and apply for jobs directly on LinkedIn.

It’s important to take away as much information and learning from this as possible, so we’ve included some additional links below.

Hints and tips

How to choose a profile picture?
- It should feature you!
- Look like you do when you’re at work
- Be recognisable
Creating a headline
1. Who are you? “I’m an engineering project manager”
2. What can your offer? “I have 15 years experience in renewables”
3. What do you want people to instantly know about you? “I’m chartered by the IET
4. What keywords describe your ideal career or position? “Offshore, renewables”
Now, put it together in -10 words

“Chartered project manager with 15 years experience in offshore renewables.”
Creating an ‘about’ summary
1. What type of career are you most passionate about?
2. What drives you?
3. What are your areas of expertise?
4. What are you personal interests?
5. What volunteer work have you done?
Now, put it together in a paragraph or two
Naturally occurring evidence to share
1. A work-in-progress sketch of a new product
2. Your reaction to a talk you attended
3. A certificate for a training course you’ve completed
4. A useful tip that helps you do your job
5. Feedback from a customer
Useful LinkedIn links
- Add skills to your profile to show your expertise and strengths
- Let recruiters know you’re available for work
- Learn about about your degrees of connection with others
- Have a look at who has been viewing your LinkedIn profile
- These are great ideas for creating engaging posts
- Find out how to search for jobs
- Apply for jobs directly on LinkedIn
- Set up job alerts to keep you updated on job postings
- Edit your visibility and privacy settings to control who can see your profile
- Control when you get emails and notifications from LinkedIn
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