10 LinkedIn Tips to Boost Your Networking Success

Whether you’re looking for new ways expand your network or want to explore some of LinkedIn’s newest features, we have you covered. Here’s a look at 10 tips to boost your LinkedIn success.

[The Ultimate LinkedIn Guide]

LinkedIn’s redesigned Alumni tool helps you find contacts from college and gives you insights into the companies they work for, the fields they work in and where they live. Clicking on each graph will display additional information about the people in that network.

At the top of your Alumni page you’ll see a handful of subheads, such as “Where they live,” “Where they work,” and “What they do.” Or, if you’re job hunting and know you want to work for Google, for example, use the Alumni tool to find graduates of your school and with your major who work there now.

[How to Use LinkedIn’s Alumni Tool to Network, Job Hunt]

If one person is cluttering your activity feed—or if you’re not interested in viewing the “Jobs you may be interested in” section—you can adjust your settings so you only see information that’s important to you.

Navigate to your Settings page and select the Account tab at the bottom. Then, click “Customize the updates you see on your home page” for the full list of options you can show or hide. You can hide individuals from appearing from your stream as well as remove updates such as when connections change profile information or receive recommendations.

LinkedIn Today is a social news service that aggregates the top headlines and stories related to your industry and based on what your connections share.

You can personalize the type of content that appears on your homepage based on industry and news sources, and you can save, like, comment on or share articles that you find interesting. To access LinkedIn Today, hover over the News tab at the top and click “LinkedIn Today.”

[LinkedIn Today: Tour What This Service Can Do for You]