You guys, great to see you again. If you are new here, my name is Bill Benoist. I'm a certified
professional career coach in Silicon Valley. And in today's video, I got a quick one on LinkedIn.
You know, I often talk about LinkedIn. I find it to be a very valuable resource. If you're in
career transition or you're looking for another job now are really specifically talking to people
that have not been using LinkedIn all that much. I had a client a couple of weeks ago, and he was
someone who had established his LinkedIn account. When he was working with his previous company,
he was actually using the email address of the previous company to sign into LinkedIn. And you
can do that. You can do that, but what's happening is that if somebody messages you, it's going to
that email address, that is the company email address.
And in his case, he had left the company and his email address was no longer on the server.
So he couldn't sign into LinkedIn because he couldn't remember his password. So
there's a reset button for the password, but guess where it goes,
the link is sent to the email address and the email address was on the server
and he no longer had access to that email account. Another situation totally true. My wife,
if you were to message her on LinkedIn, she would probably never receive it. And here's the reason
why, because her primary email address is a Yahoo email account. Now she still has this account.
The thing is, is she started using Gmail couple of years ago. So if you were to message her on
LinkedIn, she would probably never receive it. Or if she did go into that Yahoo account
in a couple of months, there would be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of emails in there.
And she would probably never see that LinkedIn message because she's using Gmail. Why haven't she
changed it? Well, number one, I haven't told her about this because I know she's looking towards
retirement, not looking for another job. And right now I kind of like using this as a talking
point. But what I want to share with you is how you can add some additional email accounts here
because you can have multiple email accounts and sign in with anyone. So for example, if you're
no longer with the company, but you know what your password is to LinkedIn with that email address,
you can keep signing in, even though your email account is no longer on that company,
server is just a matter of getting the messages. It's a make sense. So in this case here,
what I want to do is I want two things. Number one, I want you to start thinking about,
should I add another email account?
And number two, if I do that, should I make that primary? And I'm going to show you how to do that
because it's very, very quick. I've opened my homepage of LinkedIn. And what I'm going to do is
up here along the, uh, top bar, I'm going to click on the little icon that says me, and you'll see,
there's my picture right there. There's an arrow for the dropdown. I'm going to click on this.
And I am going to go to settings and privacy. So LinkedIn actually made a change. Recently,
when you used to go here, you would come up where there would be like four columns and the
columns would be like account preferences and communications and sign in security.
And Dave actually put this now over to this side. So if you see here,
we open up, this is on profile information where we can go down here.
But what we want to do is we want to look at sign in security. So I'm going to click on this
link right here and boom, front and center is email addresses, add or remove email addresses
on your account. And I want to point out that you can see that I actually have three email
addresses. If I go in here, you, I have a primary, which is a bill that bill benoist.com,
but I can also sign into my LinkedIn account using bill at leadership, heart coaching.com and
also WP noise started hotmail.com. These are two other email addresses that I have. However, if you
were to message me, I'm not going to receive those messages except@theprimarybillatbillbenoist.com.
So want to add an email address? It's as simple as clicking add email address. And when you type
this in here, you're going to go ahead and click on send verification. You'll have to go to that
new email address that you're putting in there and actually verify that this was you. And, um,
you're all set. That's all it takes. And then you can actually come back in here and if you want,
you can make it primary. So it's that easy. It's literally a 32nd chain.
Alright. So I hope you found this video informative and useful if you haven't
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