LinkedIn is a professional networking platform launched in 2003 that allows users to connect with colleagues and find jobs. It is primarily used for professional networking activities like employers posting jobs and job seekers posting resumes. Users can build professional profiles, connect with contacts from their email, and use LinkedIn like a virtual networking event to grow their careers and business opportunities.

2. LinkedIn ( / lɪŋktˈɪn /) is an American business and employment-oriented
service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28,
2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking,
including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
LinkedIn is the largest and most dominant social network in the professional arena.
Totally different from the likes of Facebook, it is used for maintaining a professional
persona and brand. Other uses for LinkedIn include finding a job, networking,
recruiting new employees, getting sales leads and even getting your business
news.

3.  Whether you're a marketing executive at a major company, a business owner who
runs a small local shop or even a first-year college student looking for their first
job after graduating, LinkedIn is for anybody and everybody who's interested in
taking their professional life more seriously by looking for new opportunities to
grow their careers and to connect with other professionals.
 You can think of LinkedIn as the high-tech equivalent of going to a traditional
networking event where you go and meet other professionals in person, talk a
little bit about what you do, and exchange business cards. It's like one big virtual
networking event.

5.  LinkedIn is the largest and most dominant social network in the professional
arena. Totally different from the likes of Facebook, it is used for maintaining a
professional persona and brand. Other uses for LinkedIn include finding a job,
networking, recruiting new employees, getting sales leads and even getting your
business news.

6. • Your profile is the condensed picture of how the professional world sees you. A
great, detailed profile projects someone who is successful, thorough, and
connected. A thin or outdated profile projects someone who doesn't care or who
can't be bothered. Make sure your profile says the thing(s) you want to
project.LinkedIn's profile wizard will take you through the steps of entering your
region, industry, company and current job title.
• You will also be asked whether you are employed, a business owner, looking for
work, working independently or a student.
• This information completes your basic profile.

7. Connections are professional contacts whom you know or wish to know. The
connections you add on LinkedIn become part of your social network.LinkedIn will
prompt you to search for connections by crawling your email, which you give LinkedIn
access to. You can use this to see who among your email connections already has a
LinkedIn account and invite them to become part of your professional network.
You may opt to skip this step if you prefer to add connections individually.