This document provides information to veterans on how to use LinkedIn to connect to career opportunities. It outlines how LinkedIn can help veterans tell their professional story, build their network, understand civilian career options, and advance their knowledge. It provides guidance on completing a professional profile, connecting with others, exploring companies and jobs, and using LinkedIn Learning.

1. LinkedIn for
Veterans:
Connecting to Opportunity

2. Why Join LinkedIn?
Members Companies Jobs Endorsements
for 50k+ Skills
Schools
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500M 9M 7M 11B 26K Billions of
updates
daily

3. We empower our military and
veteran members to:
Tell your professional story and be
found by others
Recruit, build and maintain your
professional support network
Understand the “way in” to civilian
career opportunities
Maintain and advance knowledge to
stay at the top of your field
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4. Your Starting Point:
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veterans.linkedin.com

5. Tell your story and be found by others

6. Your Professional Identity: Headline, Photo, and Summary
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7. Your Professional Identity: Location and Industry
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8. Articulating Your Military & Career 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. How to Land in the Net
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• Members with a profile photo receive up to
21x more profile views and 9x more
connection requests.
• Members with current positions are
discovered up to 16x more in recruiter
searches.
• Members with more than 5 skills are 27x
more likely to be discovered in searches by
recruiters.
• Including the city where you are based
makes you stand out up to 23x in searches.

14. Recruit, build, and maintain your support network

15. Does this look efficient?

16. Learn From Your Connections, Don’t Forget About Them
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17. Expand Your Network Strategically
• Members with whom you share
similar backgrounds
• Members at companies, industries, or
roles you want to work for or have
• Send personalized request messages
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18. Leverage LinkedIn’s Advanced Search
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19. Connect with Fellow Alumni
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20. Reaching Out To Others: The Informational Interview
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21. Leverage Groups to Join New Circles
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22. Make the Most of 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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23. “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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Make the Most of LinkedIn’s Veteran Mentor Network

24. Find your “way in” to new opportunities

25. Explore Company Pages
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26. Understand Company Culture
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Signal Interest and List Preferences

28. Explore Job Opportunities
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29. Explore Job Opportunities
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30. Leverage Premium Competitive Insights
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Set Accurate Salary Expectations

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Understand Salary Variables

33. The “Way In”: Contact Recruiters and Build Relationships
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The “Way In”: Contact Recruiters and Build Relationships

35. Maintain and advance your professional knowledge

36. Develop Skills and Prep for Interviews
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37. Develop Skills and Prep for Interviews
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38. Manage Your Feed to Learn From Others
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39. Manage Your Feed to Learn From Others
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40. LinkedIn’s Blog: Insights, Data, and Trends
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41. LinkedIn’s Blog: Insights, Data, and Trends
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42. Your Next Steps

43. 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

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

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