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Virtual: LinkedIn 3: Advanced Techniques

Virtual: LinkedIn 3: Advanced Techniques Online

This free workshop is made possible by the Chester County Library Trust.

With over 900 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:

  • Applying to and saving jobs, setting your preferences, and email alerts along with autocomplete and autosuggest
  • Key word searches for networking and/or finding people for jobseeking or business development
  • Researching and leveraging those 2nd level connections for warm introductions through your sphere of influence
  • Filtering techniques using advanced search
  • BOOLEAN searches
  • Saving your searches
  • Your Q&A time

Lynne M. Williams, Ed.D. Candidate, is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Area Great Careers Group, an all-volunteer 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides career education and networking connections for: 1) jobseekers in career transition, including veterans and 2) employed and self-employed for career management. Lynne is also the owner of Around the Clock Executive Helper, a writer of resumes and LinkedIn profiles. Lynne presents unique research-based workshops on LinkedIn, resumes, the Applicant Tracking System, the Art of Networking In Person & Online, and other career-related, social media, and technology topics. She is currently working on writing her doctoral dissertation and is a contributing author to Find Your Fit: A Practical Guide to Landing the Job You Love along with the late Dick Bolles, the author of What Color is Your Parachute?. In addition, she writes a weekly career column in Vista.Today, Montco.Today, Delco.Today, and other publications with LinkedIn tips and more. Connect with her on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/lynnewilliams with a personalized message and visit the Philadelphia Area Great Careers Group website at https://greatcareersphl.org.

Registration is required. Registration will close 2 hours prior to the scheduled start time of the event. A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the event begins. Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link. You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual program.

Date:
Saturday, May 20, 2023 Show more dates
Time:
10:00am - 1:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Library Location:
Chester County Library
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
  Adults  
Categories:
  Business / Career  
Registration has closed.

Event Organizer

Melissa Kohl

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