Make the most of the largest professional social networking platform, LinkedIn, by engaging with the resources and tips linked below. With over 900 million people on LinkedIn, including 40 million recent graduates and current students, use the tips below to stand out and highlight your unique skills.
Get started with the LinkedIn Profile Checklist for BSOS Majors. Capture your professional headshot for LinkedIn via the free Professional Photo Booth.
LinkedIn Profile Checklist for BSOS Majors
- LinkedIn Learning video- Rock your LinkedIn profile (1 hr.)
- Use a professional photo and enhance it with these tips
- Tips for Building the Perfect LinkedIn Profile
- Customize your profile's URL
- Add background to your profile | 10 LinkedIn background photo examples, Forbes
- Great photo, bad background? Remove it
- How to Create a Professional LinkedIn Banner Using Canva
- Share your status: Open to work
Use LinkedIn's Alumni tool to explore career path options. View a tutorial video for the tool.
- Explore career paths related to your skills
- Search tips for exploring LinkedIn
- Explore skills in demand by industry
- ChatGPT Prompts, create a list of potential career roles based on your interests, skills, etc.
Identify your skills & add them to your profile.
- Adding skills, how to
- 8 effective ways to add skills that stand out
- Use LinkedIn's Alumni tool to locate UMD alumni and review their career paths; view a video tutorial
- Tips for who to connect with
- 9 expert-backed ways to use LinkedIn to find a job, Business Insider
- 4 Steps to Joining the Professional Conversation on LinkedIn
- This Is What Recruiters Look For On Your Social Media Accounts, Fast Company
Join Groups to connect with Alumni:
1. BSOS Student & Alumni Network
2. BSOS Experiential LinkedIn Group: Connecting Academics, Research, Internships & Career Planning
Sample wording:
- Professional Communication: Informational interviews, requesting a reference
- 10 templates for inviting connections (Feller Center)
- How to Add Recruiters to Your LinkedIn Network (with Sample Messages), job-hunt
- Informational interview tips
- Resource Guide: Leveraging ChatGPT for Your job or internship search
UMD students, faculty, and staff have free access to Linkedin Learning, an online learning service that can help professionals learn software, design, and business skills to achieve their personal and professional goals.
BSOS Career Ready: Do you have the career-ready competencies necessary to be successful post-graduation?
Curated LinkedIn Learning videos for BSOS students:
- Create Your Brand
- Tips for applying for Internship/Job Openings?
- Create an Internship/Job Search Plan
Add a new skill (sample topics below):
- Analytics
- Big Data
- Data Analytics
- Data Science Tools
- Finance
- Photoshop & Lightroom
- Python
- R for Data Science
- Web Design
- PLUS MANY MORE
Setting tips to increase your visibility, Business 2 Community
Manage your privacy- read this BEFORE connecting with professionals on LinkedIn
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