Jeg faldt her til morgen over en Infographic der forklarer lidt om LinkedIn:

Klik ind og se mere på Masable:

http://mashable.com/2011/12/03/linkedin-boot-camp-infographic/

Når vi søger nye folk i Habro & Finansgruppen, bruger jeg altid Linkedin, før jeg slår stillingerne op et andet sted. Det, tror jeg, der er mange, der gør.

Derfor skal du have lært at bruge Linkedin Signal, hvis du vil forrest i køen.

Når jeg går på Linkedin Signal og søger på “kandidat”, får jeg – bare på den første side:

.NET-udvikler, Sharepoint Solution Architect, Business Intelligence analytiker, Webmaster hos Microsoft, Mijø- og kvalitetsingeniør, Projektleder.

Jeg kunne også søge på “job”, “regnskab”, “chef”, “leder” – ja, det er vel egentlig kun fantasien, der sætter grænser. Så er jeg helt sikker på, at jeg ville finde i hvert fald et par interessante stillinger, hvor jeg kunne komme først i køen.

Så hvis du er jobsøgende, er det måske en god ide i hvert fald én dag om ugen at bruge dine daglige 10 minutter (som du kan læse om i: Fundet!) på Linkedin Signal.

Sådan gør du:

• Gå på Linkedin
• Find “News” i højre hjørne og tryk på “Signal”
• Brug søgeboksen til at lave dine søgninger
• Brug check boxene til at sikre, at du søger der, hvor du rent faktisk gerne vil arbejde

Og find en masse jobs.

Bonusinfo: Der er en ekstra fordel ved at finde jobbet på denne måde. Du får nemlig samtidig at vide, hvordan du og dit netværk kender virksomheden. Det kan være, at der er en personlig indgang.

Every networker and active LinkedIn users worst nightmare must all most certainly be getting shut out of their account. Which was exactly what happened to me a couple of weeks ago. All my 350 connections, 12 recommendations collected since 2006… all in jeopardy!

This can happen in many ways, mine is a bit more mysterious, but one that often comes into play is if you use your company email as your primary. When you change jobs, your mail goes inactive, and you loose access to your LinkedIn account, and LinkedIn does NOT care.

This blog post describes the painstaking process of loosing access to your LinkedIn account and trying to regain access, just to summarize, this includes:

- Writing tons of emails to LinkedIn supporters
- Standing in line at a “government institution”
- Shading stuff with a pencil
- and even sending a fax!

To avoid this, do yourself the favor of checking which emails is your primary and add a couple of extra in case of emergencies like the above mentioned:

1. Click, your name in the top right corner of the screen
2. Click Change, Just below your profile picture next to Primary Email
3. Make sure your primary email meets the following criterias:
- You alone own it, not the company you work for
- Make sure it is the email address which you intend to use for a VERY long time, so don’t use your school mail, or something temporary.
4. Add extra email addresses, as backup, these could be company mail accounts and so on.

Part II: This is the story of how I lost access my account… and 3 weeks later got it back.

As a part of my daily routine I attempted to log on to LinkedIn, but was greeted with a Captcha prompt and the message:
“The email address or password you provided does not match our records.”
I tried desperately, with every password/email combination I could think off – No luck.

Well nothing else to do but to try and reset the account. But… The email with the verification never showed up! – Not good.

Next stop was customer support, I provided as many details as possible to bring down the Q&A session, but instead of reading my email they gave me this:

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I believe the link below from our Help Center might best answer your question regarding security verification prompts.

If this doesn’t provide you with the information you need, please let me know and I will be happy to assist you further.

Regards,

LinkedIn Customer Service

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Thanks. Reply. Copy. Paste, add: “Please read my e-mail before replying with a standard referral to your FAQ.”

This type of dialog proceed for a couple of days, they replied but the reply seemed useless. I was still shut out of my account.

Finally after several attempts I got through to them, and by deduction, from their cryptic non-disclosing automated responses, I figured that somehow my primary email address must have been changed somehow.But how did that happen? – No clue. Since its the exact same email i attempted to login with was the same one i opened the account with, and the same one i was writing Customer Support with.

LinkedIn has a very strict policy regarding accounts, and I certainly respect their concerns regarding identity theft. But since this was not my own fault, how could Ii prevent it? – No clue.

BUT the process of getting LinkedIn to verify my identity seems medieval for an online service, check this out:

I was presented with 2 options:

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Option 1: Regain access to the account by signing the following affidavit of identity before a Notary Public. Once notarized, this form can be faxed back to me or scanned and attached in your response to this message. Once received, I will submit the form to our Privacy Team to begin the account recovery process.

Note: A Notary Public is a public servant appointed by state government to witness the signing of important documents and administer oaths. You can find a local notary at any financial institution, public library, U.S. Post Office, local court house or any attorney in your area. Depending on your state regulations, a minimal fee may be involved to procure this service. Should your state requirements include an embossed seal by your notary, please be sure to shadow the seal with a pencil prior to scanning or faxing.

Option 2: Create a new LinkedIn account and then request the old account be closed.

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Great, so either I spend an afternoon, paying for their mistake with my time and money. And literally standing in line at a government institution, to get access to an online service… this seems hopelessly outdated, (and quite possibly very humiliating if the lady at the other side of the counter doesn’t want to sign it!) . But IF i get it signed I then have to “Shadow the seal with a pencil” (not even sure what that means?!) and then … wait for it… Fax it back to LinkedIn!! Wow… Not very Web 2.0 is it? Im mean I has been years since i have actually even seen a fax machine!

Wait. It gets better!

Option 2, they are actually telling me that if I create a new account, I can request the old one be closed!? The bright and attentive reader will now wonder, how that fits in with the concerns about identity theft?! – No clue. Get this, if the bad-guy-hacker out there opens new account in the same name, ask LinkedIn to close the other one, you skip option 1, go directly to identity theft. In my case? Well, I just loose everything I spent 5 years accumulating.

I didn’t like either of the options so, Instead I sent them every thinkable link, domain registration, phone number, so if they still doubted me, I could be contacted directly. This seemed to work. A couple of days later I got reply that I could reset my account.

To my big surprise “my”  primary email was set to: ivanivan6640@gmail.com , an email I never heard of, used, written to, got any google results on ect. So what the hell happened LinkedIn? – No clue.

So my best advice: Keep your account safe, add emails, and change your password to a strong password.

Please post other helpful tips and tricks on the subject of keeping our accounts safe!

Linkedin har altid haft et problem med kreative mennesker. Det er vanskeligt at vise sine evner på CV-form, hvis det, man er god til, er reklame, grafik, animation og lignende.

Men det har Linkedin gjort noget ved med en applikation, der hedder: Creative Portfolio Display. Med det værktøj kan man vise hele verden sine kreative evner. Du kan læse mere her: http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/07/28/linkedin-behance/

Det er dog vigtigt, at du stadig husker på, at på nettet søger man på ord – ikke billeder. Derfor skal du stadig sørge for at have en profil, som sætter ord på det, du kan. Også selvom du er kreativ.

LinkedIn – School: Keep your network updated!

I have just been on LinkedIn to check on my profile. One of my contacts invited me to a reception, another is at a pep-talk with a well known entrepreneur. Yet another shard an interesting link with med, another is expanding his business and is looking for people with flair for sales. Four people in my network, that i pay extra attention to this Sunday evening. They show me that their business is going well, and they want to share knowledge with me, and they even give me the opportunity to meet them face-to-face. Maybe i even know a really talented person in sales thats looking for a job…

Remember to to the same. use the box on your LinkedIn profile that says: “Share and idea, article, question or update” to update your network, because they simply cant guess what your doing right now. Let them know!
When Bastian and i hold seminars, a lot of people ask us, “But what do we write?!” and heres some inspiration:

• Write when you get a new client. Tell them that you are happy to have a new customer on board, and how much you are looking forward to working with them.
• Write about a person in your network who has done something you would like to recognize. That could be a person who got a new job, worked with you on a project and so on.
• Ask a question? Why try to solve alle the problems yourself, when your network can help!
• Share an interesting blog, article or website, something other people just have to know about (but keep it professional!)

This is LinkedIn and not Facebook. In my opinion that means that you dont update your LinkedIn status all the time. Maybe once or twice a week, or when you have something really relevant to share.

AND: DONT poste every single thing from  your Twitter or Facebook…

NOW: Go and update your status, right now – on www.LinkedIn.com

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In Danish:

Jeg har lige været inde på min Linkedin-profil. En af mine kontakter inviterer til reception, en anden til pep-talk med en kendt erhvervsmand. En deler et spændende link med mig, og en søger sælgere til sin virksomhed. Fire personer i mit netværk, som jeg denne søndag aften bliver opmærksom på. De viser mig, at de har gang i deres forretning, at de ønsker at dele deres viden med mig – og de giver mig mulighed for at møde dem face-to-face til forskellige arrangementer. Måske er der en sælger i mit netværk, som jeg kan anbefale.

Det skal du også huske at gøre. Brug den boks på din Linkedin-profil, hvor der står: “Share and idea, article, question or update” til løbende at holde dit netværk opdateret. De ved jo ikke, hvad du går og laver lige nu.

Når Bastian og jeg holder foredrag, er der mange der spørger; hvad kan man skrive? Lidt ideer:

• Skriv når du har fået en ny kunde. Fortæl hvor glad du er for at have kunden ombord, og hvor meget du glæder dig til at arbejde sammen med ham eller hende.
• Skriv om en person i dit netværk, som har gjort noget, du vil anerkende. Fået nyt job. Landet en ny kunde. Løst en opgave for dig.
• Stil spørgsmål? Hvorfor selv bokse med problemerne, når ens netværk kan hjælpe.
• Hvis du finder en spændende artikel, som andre bør læse – så del den på Linkedin.

Linkedin er ikke Facebook. Efter min mening betyder det, at man ikke skal opdatere sin Linkedin-status hele tiden. Måske én eller to gange om ugen, når du har noget relevant at berette.

Og så: Lad nu være med at poste alt fra din Twitter eller Facebook på Linkedin. Læs her hvorfor.

Lige nu: Gå ind og opdatér din status-besked… lige nu – www.linkedin.com.