Linkedin For Students: How To Create a Profile (Walkthrough +Real Profile). In this short video, you will learn all the basics that a high school student, college student, or recent grad needs to know to create their first Linkedin profile. The video will take you step-by-step to create your Linkedin profile, and at the end, you will see how the profile you just created looks on Linkedin. Youtube: https://youtu.be/Y4uLgteg5Xc Article: https://careerprep.me/linkedin-for-students-how-to-create-a-profile/

1. Linkedin For Students
How to create a profile (walkthrough + real profile)

2. JOB SEARCH & INTERVIEW TIPS

3. Linkedin For Students: How to
Create a Profile
In this video, I will take you step-by-step on how to create
your first Linkedin profile. We’re going to be using the
information from our first resume and using it to fill in some
of the sections on Linkedin.

4. If you haven’t created your resume yet, check out these videos:
Once you have done that, you’ll be ready to create your Linkedin
profile by using the information from your resume.
Linkedin For Students: How to
Create a Profile

5. Setting Up Your Profile
There are a series of sections that you should fill out to complete
your online professional profile. Once you have created your
account by registering your email and creating your password, you
can start adding information from your resume to your new
Linkedin profile. Let’s take a quick look at our resume and the
sections that we will be using from it.

6. Headline: We will copy our
objective from our resume.
*Passionate marketing and
business student looking to
put knowledge into practice
and start a career in the
marketing field.
Top Section - 1
Name: Philip Chesney
Philip Chesney
First Name* Last Name Name*
Passionate marketing and business student
looking to put knowledge into practice and
start a career in the marketing field.
Headline*
Customer Service Agent
Role
Role: add your current position
- Customer Service Agent

7. Location: (your city)
Schenectady, NY
Top Section - 2
School: I’ll add UAlbany, but you
should add your latest, most
advanced level of education here.
Bachelor’s degree from UAlbany
Education
Schenectady, NY
Location
Philip@Hotmail.com
Contact info
Industry: Select your area of
interest if you are just starting out.
Marketing
Industry
Contact Info: For contact info,
make sure to add your phone
number or email address.

8. Selecting Your Picture
Picture: Make sure to select a
professional picture of yourself to
upload. Trust me, this is very
important. You want your profile to
standout from others. Having a high-
quality picture makes a statement.
Consider using a picture with good
lighting, a snapshot of the face, and
in business attire. You want to look
professional.

9. Featured Section
Featured section: you can
upload your own portfolio or
other things you have done.
Today, we’re going to upload
our resume. You can use the
same one you created in the
other videos: how to write a
resume for high school
students or how to write a
resume for college students.
Featured
Philip Chesney - Resume

10. Experience Section - 1
Experience section: Since you have already written your resume in
the other follow along video, you can now copy that information here.
Let’s go ahead and copy it here for each position. If you have added
extensive experience for each position in your resume, you won’t be
able to add all of it in the Linkedin profile as there is a character limit.
Let’s look at how your experience from your resume would look on
Linkedin.

11. Front Counter
Burger King
FEB 2019 – MAY 2020
SCHENECTADY, NY
• Provide excellent customer service to all customers by greeting them with a
smile, cordially taking orders, and delivering what is requested every time.
• Serve customers with a smile and help guarantee a great meal experience by
taking accurate orders.
• Assisted manager to on-board 2 new hires. Shadowed and trained new hires
in working the front counter.
Lawncare
MAY 2018 – PRESENT
SCHENECTADY, NY
• Currently take care of 4 neighbors’ lawns each 2X per month.
• Constantly aim to deliver a high-quality service and push for word of mouth
recommendations. Acquired 2 new customers from my current clientele.
Experience

12. Education Section
Education: If you are in college, you
can add your high school with the
dates and then your current college
experience along with the dates. If
you are still in high school, add your
high school start date and then add
present. This means you are still in
high school. If you have finished high
school, but have not started college,
add the dates that you attended
high school.
Great, let’s add our experience here.
University of Albany
Bachelor’s in International Relations
2015 – 2019
Schenectady High School
2011 – 2014
Education

13. Licenses or Certificates
Maybe you have taken some additional, extracurricular courses
that gave you a certificate or license. Maybe you got certified
proficient in Spanish from Instituto Cervantes, or maybe a
certificate from a club you take part in, or maybe a music club, or
maybe even a first aid course you’ve taken. You can add a series of
awards/certificates, and licenses here. This is a pretty flexible
section.
Also, once you are signed up with Linkedin, you can take occasional
free Linkedin Learning courses. They have a great set of courses
you can take advantage of and continue your learning.

14. Volunteer Experience
Soup Kitchen Server
City Mission
• Serving dinners 3 hours per week to 75+ people. 2016 - Present
Salvation Army
• Help box clothing to send to zones in need. 2014 - Present
TWO Mission Trip
• 3 weeks in El Salvador helping reconstruct an orphanage after an earthquake.
• Worked with a team of 40 people helping lay bricks. 2012 – 1 month.
Volunteer Experience

15. Skills
For the skills section, add things like courses, software, languages, and
other skills you have. We’re going to copy over the information from
our resume for this. Your contacts can then endorse your skills.
Skills
Spanish 15
15 of your connections endorsed you for Spanish.
Microsoft Office 20
20 of your connections endorsed you for Microsoft Office.
Camtasia
Youtube Production

16. Recommendations go a long way. Remember, on most resumes, you
are not including a recommendation letter unless requested, so most
of the time, recruiters won’t see the great things your recommenders
have written about you.
Recommendations - 1
Recommendations come from other people, so we don’t have anything
to add here. However, once you have finished your profile, you might
consider pinging one of your teachers or other people you know.
Consider picking people that know of your skills, character, work ethic,
and can attest to it.

17. Recommendations - 2
On Linkedin, it is the opposite,
anyone who visits your profile will be
able to view your recommendations.
So, one more tip here, don’t just
select any person to give you a
recommendation. Make sure it is
someone who knows you well. For
more information on requesting
recommendation letters, check out
the video in the description.

18. Interests
You might want to follow specific companies, individuals,
businessmen/women, or certain areas of work like digital marketing,
product management, engineering, medicine etc. Following these
companies lets you get updates on what the company is doing,
business opportunities, and even job opportunities, which is probably
the most interesting for job searchers.

19. Activity Section
This shows the content that you have recently shared. If you are
looking to get a job in let’s say Customer Service, you should consider
reading reputable articles about customer service and then sharing
these articles on your timeline. Just click start a post and copy the link
there.
The more you share, the more your profile will get visibility and hits.

20. Visit The Linkedin Profile We Just
Created
Click on the card in the corner and follow the link to the
Linkedin Page we just created or insert the link below.
www.linkedin.com/in/CareerPrepDemo