Who the heck is Liz?

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Get your ducks in a row.

LinkedIn for the Young Professional

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All in all, getting your profile to a completed stage takes about 2 hours. This does not have to be done all at once. If you are pressed for time, do a little each day. Keep making improvements!

Rules of Recommendations

Who? People you have done business with, colleagues, coworkers (if your company allows it), respectable business connections that you trust.

Why? You had a positive EXPERIENCE with them. (Note: the keyword here is experience.)

How? Concise and correct accolades. Keep it to 3 lines when possible. Here is an example:

Offer Value: People need to have a reason to take you up on an offer- what will that be?

Give things away (especially information)

Don’t overpower people with too many updates

LinkedIn for the Young Professional

Connect to people you have met or who are relevant to your professional network. Do not pick up dead weight.

Sure, we could all have 1,000 connections by randomly linking to people we don’t know.

This is not the idea.

Above All

Offer Value: People need to have a reason to take you up on an offer- what will that be?

Give things away (especially information)

Don’t overpower people with too many updates

Your success depends on you:

-Your action-Your ambition -Your tenacity-Your attitude