Filtering Your Connections on LinkedIn

Now that you have allthe connections, whatare you going to do withthem? Kathleen Smith,ClearedJobs.Net

What to do with all yourLinkedIn Connections?Congratulations you have made itto the magical number of 500+connections on LinkedIn!Now what……You have connected with theseindividuals for a specific reason –recruiting, job hunting, businessdevelopment.More than likely you have acombination of connections inyour network from school chumsto prospective employers.But how do you keep themorganized especially if you want tocommunicate with them?

How Can you Organize YourLinkedIn Connections?There are some ways that LinkedInorganizes your Connections orContacts for you and there aresome things you can do to organizeyour Connections.First, there are set Locations thatare inherent in the system. You canfilter your connections based onlocation, this is called “NarrowYour Connections” by Location.

Filtering by Industry SettingsRemember when youselected which Industrywould be listed on yourProfile?Well you can “Narrow YourConnections “ by Industry aswell.You have to remember yourconnections may be in otherIndustries than you think theywould be.

Filtering Your Connectionsto the right audienceNow that you have”Narrowed by Location” and“Narrowed by Industry”, youcan select the contacts thatyou want to send a messageto.

Another way to filter connections, and to take it a step farther…When you view your Connections,on the left hand side you will seegroupings called “Tags”.The default settings are for Groups,Partners, Colleagues and thenUntagged.You can further create selectionsbased on Tags by creating newTags.Go to “Manage”

Create the Tags that wouldbe most helpful for you toOrganize your Connections.

Using TagsOnce you have created a Tag,you can open a Connection, andclick on “Edit Tags”This allows you to add a Tag tothe Connection for filing.

You can select yourTag and then SendMessage to the group

Remember to protect yourconnections

Remember to protect whosees your ConnectionsLinkedIn, like all social media, isbased on sharing information.Your basic settings will be toshare as much information aspossible.This means your connections areseen by everyone until youchange this.Go to your Settings which is inthe upper right hand of your toolbar.Under Profile, you will want toselect “Select who can see yourconnections”

Make sure that “Only You” seeyour ConnectionsBy clicking “Only You”, yourconnections are then notPublic.However, if someone shares aContact with you, they will beable to see it as well.

I want to share Great tip for a some news job hunt! Have an req for an Admin Will I see you Just rec’d at recruitDC? my degreeRemember this is about havingconversations with your connections!Not spamming them!

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Filtering Your Connections on LinkedIn

by Kathleen Smith on Mar 19, 2012

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