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LinkedIn for Career Aspirant Freshers

LinkedIn is one of the best platforms for job seekers, employers, and organizations to promote themselves and utilize the platform to gain positive advantages toward their aspirations. This platform has helped a lot to start their career and grow their career and to do so one must know how to use the platform effectively. This post specifically focuses on the benefits of LinkedIn for career-oriented freshers. 
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    4.4. LinkedIn Headline
    4.6. LinkedIn posts
    4.7. LinkedIn Feature
    4.11. LinkedIn Learning

To make it brief, here are 5 major benefits of LinkedIn for job seekers:

  • Easy way to search & apply for jobs (mostly genuine unlike other platforms)
  • Job updates from the official pages of reputed brands/companies/hiring groups/individuals
  • Connection with individuals from school/college/office to build a strong professional profile
  • Skill assessment tools/ Free courses to improve/showcase your key skills
  • Dedicated section for interview preparation

Here are 5 most useful tips to build a credible professional LinkedIn profile:

  • Update profile with relevant information related to degree/certification/training/skills/experience
  • Feature most remarkable achievements/certifications/training
  • Follow & connect with individuals/organizations/groups to increase visibility
  • Set a proper headline showing your highest degree, key skills & future aspiration
  • Keep profile & cover picture appropriate for the professional platform (not necessarily a headshot)
There are some really useful features of LinkedIn that one must know to use the account in the most effective ways possible. Continue this post to learn those.

Here are a few useful videos on how to create & build a proper credible account to gain professional advantages using the most useful features of LinkedIn:

1. First and foremost is to know how to create a LinkedIn account. Watch the tutorial to learn how to create a LinkedIn account.

Make sure you have an active email id to open a LinkedIn account.

2. One must keep a proper profile picture to display their professional personality. It helps to build Personal Branding as well. Watch the tutorial to learn how to keep a LinkedIn profile photo.

Keep in mind LinkedIn profile is different from other social media like Facebook, Instagram, etc. Also, it's not necessary to keep a headshot for a LinkedIn profile photo.

3. One must keep a cover photo as it works as a second visual element to their profile. It helps others know their digital brand a little more. It also helps their profile stands out and engages attention. Watch the tutorial to learn how to keep a LinkedIn cover photo.

Choose a cover photo that shows your passion or professional interests or sells your content or brand.

4. Headline must reflect your career aspiration or achievements and to do that one must keep a properly contemplated headline, not just a degree only or job title. Watch the tutorial to learn how to keep a LinkedIn account headline along with an example of a headline for a fresher.

A good headline catches attention fast and it's a way to sell skills and expertise, and show aspiration that should impress the target readers.

5. Uploading a resume or cv to a LinkedIn account will definitely give professional advantages. As most freshers or professionals use LinkedIn to search for different career opportunities and apply for jobs using LinkedIn, a pre-uploaded resume or cv makes it easier and ensures the maximum possibility of getting attention to the applications. Watch the tutorial to learn how to upload a resume or cv on LinkedIn.

A Resume or CV must have professional credibility. A resume can be created using the LinkedIn feature itself or prepared separately and uploaded to a LinkedIn account. It's suggested to build a proper and professional resume or cv separately and upload it to your LinkedIn account.

6. As LinkedIn is the best way to sell one's Personal Brand, one must always ensure to keep updating the profile with degrees, skills, certificates, training, achievements, etc. One can also share certain professional opinions, relevant information, or relevant news in their profile. Consistent updates of such help keep the profile active and also help their target visitors to understand their digital personality. Watch the tutorial to learn how to post on a LinkedIn account.

A post must reflect your true professional personality and intends to impress. Use trending hashtags to get maximum visibility. Write a good or catchy description of the post including attachments.

7. To impress the target visitors to the profile, one must ensure to highlight the most impressive degrees, skills, certificates, training, achievements, etc. One can highlight by using the 'feature' option of LinkedIn. Watch the tutorial to learn how to feature posts on a LinkedIn account.

You must decide what to feature properly as it indicates your greatest achievements or skills. Also, you must keep updating the featured posts based on your newly acquired achievements or skills.

8. As the main purpose is to use LinkedIn for professional advantages, one must know how to search for their target employers, consumers, groups, brands, etc., and connect with them and follow them to be updated on their latest activities or job postings or news, etc. Watch the tutorial to learn how to search for and connect with your target LinkedIn accounts.

To get notifications for the above-mentioned purposes, it's suggested to follow or connect with your target pages keeping in mind that visiting their pages will send them notifications on the same also.

9. One of the best purposes of using LinkedIn is to get available job notifications and apply for the same if eligible and interested and also to start interview preparation with the available features of the application. Watch the tutorial to learn how to search and apply for jobs with a LinkedIn account.

Make sure to turn on the notification to be updated on the job openings in your specific requirements.

10. Once you build a credible and professional LinkedIn account, ensure to use it as well for all the spaces it can get you professional advantages. for example, put it in your resume or cv, put it in your other social profiles, etc. and to do that you must know how to get the shareable account link. Also, ensure to edit your LinkedIn account contact info and set visibility only for necessary info to the public. Watch the tutorial to learn how to get your LinkedIn account URL.

Be careful with setting the visibility of your personal information.

11. As we know competition is growing continuously for getting a good career opportunity, one must continuously keep themselves upskilled and learned and for that one can definitely take LinkedIn Learning courses which are mostly free and curated by professionals. Watch the tutorial to learn where to get the LinkedIn learning section.

Save the course certificates upon completion and flaunt those in your LinkedIn profile.

12. Take a look at my LinkedIn profile to get ideas on important sections of a credible and professional LinkedIn account. Watch the tutorial to learn how to find my LinkedIn account to get ideas.

Kindly do not copy anyone's personal information as it's not ethical to do so.

You are welcome to follow me on LinkedIn 😊

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Check the posts, Interview Tips & Preparation and Personal Branding- Promote The Brand "YOU" and Resume: Tips & Templates | Ace Interview Like Pro

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