- [Instructor] Hi viewers my name is
Kayla McCulley Director of Alumni Learning
and Career Programs here at Pomona College
and today I'm gonna show you some
really great tips on how to use Linkedin
to connect with fellow Sagehens
in some ways that you might not have seen before.
So I'm starting here logged in
to my Linkedin profile.
Note that what I'm gonna show you today
the Linkedin for Universities feature
is only available on desktop.
Although Linkedin has made some
great improvements to their mobile app
you're gonna need to go to your desktop
version of Linkedin to take advantage of
the alumni search tool.
So up here in the search bar
there's a dropdown menu with several options.
I'm gonna click on Universities,
I know not fair to us small liberal arts colleges
that they called it Linkedin for Universities
but we're gonna go with it.
And I'm gonna start typing in Pomona College.
And you'll see the search term being populated
for all the various categories that Linkedin
allows you to use for it's functionality.
Including Universities,
some of our groups including the Pomona College
alumni group,
and companies as well.
But I'm gonna take you to our Pomona College
University page as Linkedin defines it.
So your screen might look slightly different
than mine as I'm an administrator on this page
so you probably won't see this first area but,
what you'll find is a welcome page
and at the very top here Linkedin has created
a pretty neat search tool to explore
the careers of
over 12,000 people on Linkedin who've
identified themselves as having graduated from
Pomona College.
So if you hover over and click on explore careers
this will take you to a page that we call
the alumni search tool.
Now something to note if you've attended
other schools or graduate institutions
for example,
what you might find and I'll just show you
an example from my profile.
I attended the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst go Minutemen for my graduate education
and so some of you might find that this is
your default screen.
What happens then is you can go over here
to the upper right hand corner and say
change University,
and that should automatically populate with
Pomona if you're a Pomona undergrad
and you're a graduate.
So I'm gonna go back and change it here to Pomona
to show you how to start using this really robust
search feature.
So this is the screen you should be looking at
and again this captures all of the results
of people who under their Linkedin education
have identified Pomona College.
So you'll see here it's a dashboard type feature
showing where people live,
so the major metropolitan areas and this is
ranked by numbers of Pomona alumni in each area.
Where they work so these are companies.
What they do this will be industry.
And nifty little trick here there's actually
further options you can scroll on.
So you can see the right hand arrow has been
filled in here and this allows me to show
by major and skills as well as
people that I have connected to.
So I'm gonna go back here to the main search page
and let's say I'm looking for
a Sagehen who works in the greater New York area.
So I'm gonna select that option,
and you'll see that this dashboard automatically
changes based on those search results.
And I'm also interested in a career in
journalism or media communication.
So I don't have a specific company in mind,
but I know that that's my field of interest.
So I can go here to the right hand column
select an additional filter which is
media and communication,
and then and you'll see it changes
then I'm gonna scroll down
and you'll see it's already started to populate
your people area with those Sagehens
who meet those filters settings.
So the way this algorithm works is it's
gonna show me people that are either
first connections first or second connections.
As you scroll down
it will continue populating,
it's thinking about it here
with other suggested New York City
media and communications professionals.
One of the neat things about the
alumni search tool is I can actually
click on a profile here and get a great little
snapshot that shows current employment.
So Treavor here some of you may have seen him
featured on the Pomona website as one of our
alumni stories profiles.
You'll see his past experience at a glance,
as well as his Pomona information and
graduate school information.
If you're interested in viewing his profile
you can of course click view profile
and also send a message to connect.
So I'm gonna close that out.
I'm gonna return up here
to the search tool,
and show you a couple other things.
And just remember if you're trying to
launch a new search make sure you
clear out the filters and you should see
the dashboard change fairly quickly.
This search bar here allows you to type in
any level of detail that you're interested
in finding.
So perhaps I'm a graduating science major
and I'm interested in students who have gone on
to work in microbiology.
I might type in microbiology
hit enter
and you'll see that the tool has automatically
come up with Sagehens who have that term
somewhere in their profile.
I can also search by
a certain class year range.
So let's say I'm only looking for
graduates from the last five years.
Maybe I'm a young alum and I wanna connect with
other young alumni in New York city or
San Francisco or one of our other greater areas.
So I can go in here and say 2012 to 2016
our most recent class of graduates
and you'll see that the search feature has
updated with profiles of young alumni
including many students.
Of course many of our student are very savvy
and are already using Linkedin
so you'll see a number of their profiles
pop up as well.
So that's a basic overview of the tool.
I encourage you to hop on your Linkedin and
play around with it.
I find myself using this on almost a weekly basis
if I'm trying to connect alumni with folks.
Hopefully this video has helped show you how
you can empower yourself to use this tool
and take advantage of some of the great resources
that Linkedin has to stay connected
with the Pomona network.
Thanks for tuning in.