From the course: Learning LinkedIn (2023)

Set up a new LinkedIn account - LinkedIn Tutorial

From the course: Learning LinkedIn (2023)

Set up a new LinkedIn account

- [Garrick] Let's take a look at how to set up a new LinkedIn profile. In order to demonstrate this, throughout parts of this course, I'll be setting up and working with a fictitious account for Jennifer Dawson. We'll start by navigating to linkedin.com. This is also the page you'll use to sign in with once you have an account created. Now, keep in mind that the look and layout of this signup page may change, but the process for signing up will be the same. To create a new account, we'll come up to the upper right hand corner and click join now. You can create an account with an existing email address, or you can sign in with your Google account if you have one. For this example, I'll use an email address. And next, create a secure password. Currently, you're required to come up with a password that's at least six characters. As with all passwords, for security purposes, it should be unique and not one that you've used on other websites. Next, I'll click agree and join, and here we need to fill out some more information starting with your first name and last name. This is how your name will be displayed on your profile. We'll click continue. Next, it will automatically fill out your location information. If you need to change this, feel free, and we'll click next. Next, it's asking for my most recent job title. Now, if you're a student, you'll click I'm a student, but in this case we'll say that Jennifer is employed as a creative director. For the employment type we'll select full-time. And her most recent company is Red30 Tech. We'll click continue. Next, you'll have to enter a verification code that will be sent to your email. I'll switch over to Jennifer's email, and here's the code that it sent us, so I'll just copy that, and we'll come back in and paste it. We'll click agree and confirm. Now it asks if you're looking for a new job. You can see this response is private to you. For now, I'll just click not really, and click next. Now, because I showed some interest in a job, it's asking me for information about where I'd like to have that job located, so we'll just enter the zip code here again. We'll click next. Now it's asking what type of job I consider. We'll just put in creative director again. For job location, we'll just put in Ventura, California, and that we're open to remote work. I'll click next. Next, you can get job alerts. I'm just going to turn that off for now because we're going to talk about job alerts a little bit later, and I'm going to turn that off because we'll talk about being open to jobs as well. This is prompting me to use my phone to get the mobile LinkedIn app, which I do recommend you install but I'm not going to bother with that right now. And now it's offering me some people I may want to connect with to start building my network. Again, we'll talk about how to do this a little bit later so I'm just going to skip this step for now. When you're setting your account up, you may want to browse through these options and see if there's anybody you recognize that you may want to connect with. And now you're asked if you want to follow some companies or watch some LinkedIn Learning courses. This is all about customizing your account by asking what types of companies or interests you want to follow. In this case, I will follow the LinkedIn News page, which is the only one listed here right now, but you'll see more when you set up your real account. We'll click next, and just like that Jennifer's account has now been created, but it's far from complete. Throughout the rest of this chapter, we'll take a look at how we can continue to customize your profile in order to make it stand out and help you achieve your goals.

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