Chapter 2: The LinkedIn Profile: Your Miniwebsite
Creating a Powerful Profile
If you are like many people, you’ve gotten an invitation to connect on LinkedIn. If you don’t have an account yet, simply go to http://www.linkedin.com and sign up for an account. All you need to do is enter your name, email address, and a password. LinkedIn will send you a confirmation email, and you click it to confirm that it is indeed your email account. Then log into LinkedIn using your email and password, and you are ready to go.
You might be tempted to start looking for contacts to invite as connections, but hold off on that just for a little while. You have a different goal at first, and that is 100 percent completeness of your LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn ...
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