These are the slides from a workshop that I ran for the student societies in the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University. They include 12 of the most important and useful LinkedIn features for students, such as adding multimedia to your profile, building your professional network, or discovering new jobs.

1. 12 TIPS TO MAKE LINKEDIN
WORK FOR YOU
Dr Anne Osterrieder
Training workshop for the Biology/Biomed Student
Society
Department of Biological and Medical Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
2 March 2016

2. YOUR PROFILE

3. 1) Add multimedia highlights to your summary

4. 2) Use and move the profile building blocks
Turn this off before unimportant
or numerous edits,
turn on before important
additions.

5. 3) Skills versus recommendations
Do not take these too seriously – but
can offer snapshot into your expertise

6. 4) Manage your skills – add your own skills

7. 5) Get to know your profile settings

8. 6) ‘Edit your public profile’ = what people see
when they search your name

9. 7) Your recommendations

10. 8) Stop email overload

11. YOUR NETWORK

12. 9) Connecting with people
• LinkedIn is more formal than other networks – I only
connect with people who I have met, or who have a very
similar background or interest.
• If you have a shared connection with someone, you can
ask your connection to ‘introduce’ you to the other person
via LinkedIn (and you can introduce others via
‘message’).
• Use LinkedIn as your electronic business card organiser –
add people you just met, and follow up with a message at
the same time.

13. 10) Post your interests and achievements in the
‘Updates’ feed.

14. 11) Find alumni

15. JOBS

16. 12) Customise your job preferences

18. YOUR QUESTIONS?