The document provides guidance to veterans on using LinkedIn to build their professional identity, network, and launch their civilian careers. It outlines how veterans can craft compelling profiles by translating their military experience, requesting recommendations, listing skills, and taking tutorial courses. It also explains how veterans can leverage their LinkedIn network to explore job opportunities, contact recruiters, understand company cultures, and develop in-demand skills. The goal is to empower veterans to fully utilize LinkedIn's tools and resources to advance their post-military professional goals.

1. LinkedIn for
Veterans:
You’re Closer Than You Think

2. Why Join LinkedIn?
Members Companies Jobs Endorsements
for 50k+ Skills
Schools
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updates
daily

3. We empower our military and
veteran members to build:
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Subscription
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Professional
Identities
Professional
Networks
Professional
Careers
Professional
Knowledge
www.veterans.linkedin.com
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LI Learning

4. Your Starting Point:
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veterans.linkedin.com

5. Crafting a Professional Identity

6. Your Professional Identity: Headline, Photo, and Summary
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7. Your Professional Identity: Location and Industry
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8. Your Professional Identity: Translating Experience
● Explain what you did in plain
English without acronyms or
jargon
● Feature recommendations and
rich media to enhance your
profile
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9. Supporting Your Experience: Request Recommendations
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10. Completing Your Professional Portrait: Skills
● This is your chance to
easily label your hard
and soft skills
● Your selections here
drive your appearance in
recruiters’ searches
● Skills feed
recommendations for
courses, jobs,
connections, etc.
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11. Crafting Your Professional Identity: Edit and Re-Order Skills
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12. Leveraging Your Profile: How Recruiters See You
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13. Crafting Your Professional Identity: Tutorial Courses
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Translating Your Military
Skills to the Civilian
Workplace
LinkedIn for Veterans Finding Your Purpose
After Active Duty

14. Building a Professional Network

15. Building Professional Networks: Connect with Other Members
• Members with whom you share
similar backgrounds
• Suggested 30 connections minimum
• Send personalized request messages
• Like and share items posted by
connections to cultivate your network
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16. Building Professional Networks: Advanced Search
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17. Building Professional Networks: Advanced Search
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18. Building Professional Networks: Reaching Out
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19. Building Professional Networks: Alumni Tool
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20. Building Professional Networks: Discover & Join Groups
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21. Building Professional Networks: LinkedIn’s Veteran Mentor Network
“Hi Juan! I’d be happy to
connect you with someone
who recently accepted an offer
as a Transportation area
manager – they could share
their experience as someone
who recently went through the
interview process…Please feel
free to send me a message!”
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22. Building Professional Networks: LinkedIn’s Veteran Mentor Network
“I decided about five years before
retirement to request a move to the
project management office…Five years
later I retired as the senior project
manager as an E7 but it gave me
opportunities because I had
experience.”
“The PMP was the KEY to unlocking my
post-military career. It led to jobs as a
PM in software and government
regulatory science – areas I had no
prior experience in…But you have to
know how to sell yourself to employers,
or any qualification/experience is
useless.”
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23. Launching a Professional Career

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Launching A Career: Signal Interest and List Preferences

25. Launching Career: Explore Job Opportunities
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26. Launching A Career: Leverage Premium Competitive Insights
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27. Launching A Career: Contacting Recruiters and Building Relationships
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Launching A Career: Contacting Recruiters and Building Relationships

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Launching A Career: Setting Salary Expectations

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Launching A Career: Understanding Salary Variables

31. Building Professional Knowledge

32. Building Professional Knowledge: Use LinkedIn Learning to Develop Skills and
Prep for Interviews
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33. Building Professional Knowledge: Develop Skills and Prep for Interviews
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34. Building Professional Knowledge: Explore Company Pages
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35. Building Professional Knowledge: Understand Company Culture
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36. Building Professional Knowledge: Follow Companies & Influencers
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37. Building Professional Knowledge: Manage Your Feed
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38. Building Professional Knowledge: Manage Your Feed
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39. LinkedIn’s Blog: Insights, Data, and Trends
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40. LinkedIn’s Blog: Insights, Data, and Trends
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41. Your Next Steps

42. LinkedIn Learning Tutorial Courses
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Translating Your Military
Skills to the Civilian
Workplace
LinkedIn for Veterans Finding Your Purpose
After Active Duty

43. LinkedIn On The Move: Download Mobile Apps
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LinkedIn GroupsLinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs LinkedIn Learning

44. LinkedIn’s Veterans Portal:
veterans.linkedin.com
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45. Access your FREE 1yr LinkedIn Premium and LinkedIn
Learning Subscription at veterans.linkedin.com
1. Complete required fields
2. Ensure to list your military service under
“experience” (US Army, not 2nd Infantry
Division)
3. Ensure to include your profile URL
4. Be patient; may require 7-10 Days For
Approval
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