Philadelphia Area Great Careers Group

RSVP on SalesForce https://bit.ly/PAGCGSpecialEvents MUST RSVP on library website www.goo.gl/3GjLRy With over 546 million users, LinkedIn is becoming an increasingly popular professional social media platform that is not just for jobseekers, but is a critical networking tool as well as a professional electronic rolodex. At this session, you will learn some best practices, tips, and tricks you need to know to enhance or modify your LinkedIn profile. Even advanced users have learned a few new tidbits! Here are some of the topics that will be covered: 1) applying to and saving jobs, setting your preferences, and email alerts along with autocomplete and autosuggest 2) key word searches for networking and/or finding people for jobseeking or business development 3) researching and leveraging those 2nd level connections for warm introductions through your sphere of influence 4) filtering techniques using advanced search 5) BOOLEAN searches 6) Saving your searches 7) Your Q&A time Even advanced users have learned a few new tips! Lynne M. Williams, BS, MA, ABD is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Area Great Careers Group, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, which is an organization that provides workforce development through education, resources, support services, and networking to individuals. The group serves the unemployed, underemployed, including veterans, the self-employed, and the gainfully employed, as well as the organizations (businesses and nonprofits) that employ them in the Greater Philadelphia Area, NJ, and DE. Lynne completed extensive doctoral research and writing on Web 2.0 Social Media applications and is a contributing author to the book Find Your Fit: A Practical Guide to Landing the Job You Love along with 15 other career coaches and Dick Bolles, the author of What Color is Your Parachute?. Connect with her at www.linkedin.com/in/lynnewilliams