I'm Jenna Rein and this is where The Intern Hustle hangs out on YouTube.
In today's video I'm giving you my LinkedIn tips for college students. So if
you're a college student (or high school student) and you want to know how to use
LinkedIn to help you get an internship, then pull up a seat and join me for
this one. Hey there! I'm Jenna Rei from theinternhustle.com
and this is Initiative Muscle Monday. Helping you to start each
week with an intentional step toward a successful future. Let's do this! At the
time that I'm recording this video LinkedIn has over six hundred and ten
million users worldwide making it the world's largest professional network
LinkedIn is the place to be to build and grow your network it's the place to
search for new opportunities throughout your career including those first
internship opportunities and it's a place for recruiters and employers to
vet you and gain confidence in their decision to bring you onto their team
it's important that you're active on LinkedIn and as a student there are some
specific ways that you can be using LinkedIn to your advantage my goal is to
help you create a professional presence online so that you're both discoverable
and credible as you start your internship journey let's break it down
getting started as a student on LinkedIn now little to no professional experience
at this point no problem high-level here's what you should be including on
your LinkedIn profile in order to get started a photo not a selfie not a photo
of you cropped out from uncle Ed's wedding just a professional-looking
headshot so just grab a friend and have them take it with an iPhone and a blank
backdrop with a professional outfit on location where are you currently located
this is most likely your college town but you want to make it known so that
you stand out for great local opportunities education info you are a
student after all so you want to make sure that you're including your school
and the majors and minors that you're pursuing clubs societies and others
earned here is your opportunity to stand out and show off of it
LinkedIn is your resume that never sleeps so you want to update these
sections as you continue to build up your experiences and collects more
honors along the way experience now here's
you should include details about any internships or part-time or summer jobs
that you pal don't have you that yet that's okay how
about volunteer experience put it out there and then use descriptive keywords
to tell us about what you did and the impact that you had on the organization
and the community skills not how many balls can you juggle while standing on
one foot but what professional skills have you
taken the time to develop for example creating Excel macros or you've taken to
video editing do share do you want to see me walk through each and every one
of these sections that I just talked about and show you how you can best
display your info on LinkedIn I have a free video series that you can grab
access to at the link in the description below this video you just sign up once
and you can watch these videos as many times as you want to keep your profile
up to date okay so you have the basics of your profile pulled together now
let's get you familiar with the LinkedIn features that you can use to your
advantage here are a few that are especially beneficial to someone just
getting started on the platform great for students the alumni tool now I'm
actually not sure if LinkedIn calls it this anymore but this is accessible
through your University's LinkedIn page and it's an awesome tool that's just
really easy for you to identify alumni in your area or your field of interest
or your dream company so just go to your University's LinkedIn page and start
doing direct searches to find alumni from your University LinkedIn groups
search by area of interest and then read the descriptions about the various
groups that have been formed for professional networking within LinkedIn
Network so are you interested in sports broadcasting there's a group for that
online marketing there's a group for that occupational therapy in Arizona
there's a group for that start searching and requesting to join the groups that
are relative to your interests then start engaging with fellow group members
to grow your network LinkedIn company pages do you have a short list of
companies that you would love to intern for chances are they have a company page
on LinkedIn check out their page read up on their employees and stay up to date
on the latest news that they share there it's important that you do your research
for that future interview that you hope to land and it's a great way to locate
profiles of all the people who Kerr we work or have previously worked at
that company regardless of where you're at in your journey building and
maintaining a solid professional presence on LinkedIn is never a bad idea
I don't care what industry you're hoping to get your foot in the door to LinkedIn
gives you control over your professional brand and your future and it's a vehicle
for you to build and maintain relationships throughout your entire
career what are you waiting for don't forget to click that link in the
description below this video to sign up for my free LinkedIn video series with
all of the tutorials that you need to get started and you know the drill if
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of your hustle, I'll see you next Monday.