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Tip 7

 

Find contacts related to your most recent employer.

  1. Click the “People” tab at the top of the page.
  2. In the “Company” box, type in the company for which you currently work or most recently worked.  If your company is a big company like Sony, you will probably want to be more specific than entering something like “Sony,” instead entering something like “Sony Electronics.” Leave all of the other fields blank or at their default setting.
  3. At the search results, scroll through the names.  Do you know anyone you trust in this list with whom you don’t yet have a direct connection? If so, then click on the person’s name to get to their profile page.  Now click on the link “Add xxxxx to to your network” (located on the top right side of the page) to request a direct LinkedIn connection.
  4. Repeat the above process of finding and inviting people.

 

 

Tip 8

 

Add more contacts using the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar.

  • Using the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar is, in the long run, the fastest way to send invitations to all contacts that you have outside of those you have already invited.  However, it does take some time to use.
  • To download the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar:

1.       At the bottom of any page, click the link “Outlook Toolbar” beneath the “Tools” header.

2.       On the “LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar” page, scroll to the bottom of the page to click the link “LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar features.”

3.       On the “LinkedIn Toolbar FAQ” page, read about the toolbar. Make sure that your system meets the system requirements specified for the toolbar. If it does, then use the “Back” button on your browser to go to the previous page to click the link “Download the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar.”

4.       Run the installer and follow the directions given.

  • This toolbar can go through all of your contacts and emails to generate a list of every single email address you have!
    • This list would probably include many email addresses for which you would not care to consider for a connection, including such email addresses as those used to send and receive emails to and from email distributions (e.g. “subscribe@emaillist.com” or “Employee Commmunications”).
    • Also, company internal email accounts may not be listed correctly since LinkedIn only handles email accounts that are stored in Internet (SMTP) format (xxx@xxx.com), not Outlook Exchange format.
    • Finally, you are probably not interested in adding every person who has been cc’ed on every email you have ever sent or received.

 

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