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Tip 7
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Find contacts related
to your most recent employer.
- Click the “People” tab at the
top of the page.
- 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.
- 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.
- Repeat the above process of
finding and inviting people.
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Tip 8
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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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