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Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies
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Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies

by Kate Burton
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
720 pages
19h 31m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Signing Up and Creating Your Account

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Joining LinkedIn with or without an invitation

check Registering and setting your preferences

check Connecting with people you already know on LinkedIn

When LinkedIn first launched, it grew primarily through invitations — you joined only if someone who was already a member invited you and encouraged you to join. However, membership is now open to anyone 14 years or older (as long as the user hasn’t previously been suspended or removed from LinkedIn, of course). You can have only one active account, but you can attach multiple email addresses, past and present, to your account so that people can more easily find you.

You’ll be presented with some configuration settings during the sign-up process that might confuse you until you’re more familiar with the system. Fortunately, you can customize all those settings later, but for now, we suggest some initial settings. In addition, based on your initial settings, LinkedIn recommends people to invite to your network. This chapter touches on the initial recommendation process.

Joining LinkedIn

Many people join LinkedIn because a friend or colleague invited them. You can join just as easily ...

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