The How-To Guide for LinkedIn

LinkedIn Features

4 New LinkedIn Features for Job Seekers

LinkedIn's redesigned Jobs page sports a new look and a handful of updated features, making it easier for you to find the perfect job.

LinkedIn Updates Tool to Find New Connections

LinkedIn's updated 'People You May Know' feature helps you expand your network by letting you sort contacts by company, college and more.

LinkedIn Tip: Digitize Business Cards with CardMunch

LinkedIn is re-launching CardMunch, an iPhone app that scans business cards and turns them into contacts you can connect with on LinkedIn. Heres how it works, along with some new features.

LinkedIn Revamps Profile Pages: Tour the New Features

LinkedIn unveils its redesigned profile page that includes a handful of new features. Here's a sneak peek at what you can expect when LinkedIn switches your profile in the upcoming months.

How to Use LinkedIn 'Endorsements' to Highlight Your Skills

LinkedIn's newest feature, Endorsements, lets you highlight the skills you're known for. Here's how it works, plus four expert tips for making the most of it.

LinkedIn Bets Big on Mobile, Unveils 3 New Updates

As LinkedIn continues to focus on its mobile offering, the professional social network has announced three updates to its site and mobile app: real-time notifications, Company Pages and a handful of new languages available to iPad users.

LinkedIn Redesign: More Graphics and More Like Facebook

LinkedIn has rolled out a number of updates to its website, including a cleaner and easier-to-navigate homepage and new features for LinkedIn Today. Here's what you need to know.

3 Things You Need to Know About How LinkedIn's Calendar Works

Reports last week revealed that LinkedIn collects meeting information --including phone numbers and sensitive meeting notes -- if you turn on the iOS app's calendar feature. LinkedIn sets the record straight, making three important clarifications.

5 LinkedIn Features You May Not (But Should) Know About /a>

How well do you know LinkedIn? Maybe not as well as you think. Here's a look at five features and tools -- from listening to headlines to hiding your identity -- that can save you time, expand your network and give you perspective on your connections.

How to Use LinkedIn's New Job Application Feature

LinkedIn released a new plug-in that lets you apply for jobs with your LinkedIn profile by simply clicking a button.

How to Listen to LinkedIn Today's Top Headlines

LinkedIn's new feature for browsers and iPhones, "SpeechIn," uses text-to-speech to read you the day's top news headlines -- a great feature for people on the go, with some tweaks.

LinkedIn iPhone App Introduces New Gesture Feature

LinkedIn rolls out a new update to its iPhone app that simplifies the news browsing experience with the flick of a finger.

LinkedIn Tip: How to Use 'Signal' to Job Hunt

LinkedIn's feed of member status updates and Twitter updates deliver big potential benefits for job seekers. Here's how you can use the tool to land a job others may not know about.

LinkedIn Today: Tour What This Service Can Do for You

LinkedIn's newest product, announced Thursday, aims to be your go-to source for daily industry news. Here's a look at the benefits and some quick tips on how to customize it.

LinkedIn Search: 3 Ways to Maximize Your Social Networking Success

For everything from finding connections at specific companies to applying for a job that meets all your criteria, here's how you can get the most form LinkedIn's people, company and job search capabilities. Registration required.

LinkedIn Revamps Security and Privacy Options: Your Guide

LinkedIn is overhauling its Account Settings page this week. Here's a sneak peek at the new features and design.

5 LinkedIn Privacy Settings You Need to Know

How much of your profile have you made public? Can others see that you've viewed their profile? If you're unsure of these answers, it's time to revisit these five privacy settings.

"LinkedIn Labs" Showcases Experimental Projects

LinkedIn showcases experimental applications and projects via its new site LinkedIn Labs, where users can get their hands on new features and help determine their fate. Here's a rundown of four apps that are currently live.

LinkedIn's New Face: Tour "Signal's" 6 Key Features

The professional social network keeps pace with Facebook and Twitter by announcing a product that streams news and updates from contacts. Take a visual tour of the significant new look -- and benefits.

LinkedIn Quick Tip: "Company Follow" Now Works Better

LinkedIn's newest tweak rolls out three changes that will benefit hiring managers and job seekers.

Your Guide to the New "Groups" Features

LinkedIn's Groups pages just got a facelift. Here's a look at the new, more interactive options and what they can do for you.

How to Use "Company Follow"

LinkedIn announces a new feature that lets you keep track of key developments at companies you like. Here's how to use it and how to manage your settings.

How to Get the Most From "Answers"

LinkedIn's Answers feature can help you showcase your expertise and connect you with people that hold similar interests, but use it with caution, experts say.

Tour the New Sharing Options

LinkedIn unveils changes to how you can share information on the site, emulating functionality from Twitter and Facebook. Here's what you need to know about LinkedIn's new updates.

LinkedIn Recommendations: Five Ways to make the Most of Them

As potential employers or recruiters peruse your work experience on LinkedIn, recommendations from past and present colleagues can be one of the most helpful features to help communicate your value. Here are five tips for doing the most good for yourself with LinkedIn recommendations.

New LinkedIn Apps Platform Overview

Since LinkedIn launched its application platform, the social network for professionals must carefully vet what technologies get added to the site, ensuring that they honor users' privacy while bolstering productivity.

LinkedIn for BlackBerry Smartphones: Details and Images

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) and business-social-networking service LinkedIn today showed off a brand new LinkedIn mobile application for BlackBerry smartphones at RIM's second-annual BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.

LinkedIn How-Tos

5 LinkedIn Tips for How to Resign From Your Job Gracefully

How you handle your last days at a company can cast a lasting impression on your professional reputation. Here are the dos and don'ts of leaving, plus tips for tying up loose ends on LinkedIn.

How to Use LinkedIn's Alumni Tool to Network, Job Hunt

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. Here's how you can use the tool to help find an MBA program or land that dream job.

4 LinkedIn Tips for Career Success in 2013

Whether your New Year's resolution is to land that promotion, ask for a raise or find your dream job, here's how you can take charge and make it a reality.

4 LinkedIn Tips to Help You Get Hired This Month

Think you can't get hired in December? Think again. Here are four ways you can take advantage of the holiday season to hone your networking skills and land the perfect job.

LinkedIn for Marketers: 4 Easy Ways to Find Content for Your Audience

To keep your LinkedIn Company Page engaging, you need good content. But what do you do when resources are slim? Here's a look at four types of content--that you may not realize you already have--that are perfect for LinkedIn.

How to Use LinkedIn 'Endorsements' to Highlight Your Skills

LinkedIn's newest feature, Endorsements, lets you highlight the skills you're known for. Here's how it works, plus four expert tips for making the most of it.

5 LinkedIn Tips to Prepare for Your New Job

You may have landed a new job, but your work on LinkedIn isn't done. Here are five things you need to do before day one.

LinkedIn Tip: How Businesses Can Target Status Updates

LinkedIn's new 'Targeted Status Updates' lets you deliver relevant content to the right followers. Here's what company administrators need to know.

6M LinkedIn Passwords Leaked: How to Change Your Password

LinkedIn is investigating claims that more than 6 million user passwords were compromised. Here are step-by-step instructions for changing your account password.

How to Conquer Your To-Do List

A LinkedIn study shows that only 11 percent of respondents accomplish the tasks on their to-do lists. Here are five tips for making and adhering to your tasks.

How to Manage Summer Interns: 5 Expert Tips From LinkedIn

Managing interns -- plus your own workload -- can be tricky. Here are five expert tips from LinkedIn to help you both make the most of the partnership.

7 Career Tips to Help You Negotiate Better

LinkedIn's newest study reveals that Americans are the most anxious workers in the world when it comes to negotiating in the workplace. These seven expert tips will help you conquer that fear and get what you want.

LinkedIn Tip: How to Enable HTTPS Browsing

If you're visiting LinkedIn from open WiFi hotspots, your security could be at risk. Here's how to take advantage of a new LinkedIn feature to enable secure browsing to ensure your information remains safe.

LinkedIn Tip: How to Opt-Out of Social Advertising

LinkedIn's social ads, which automatically opt you in, may use your name and photo to promote brands that you follow. Here are step-by-step instructions for how you can opt-out.

5 Tips to Avoid LinkedIn's Top 10 Buzzwords

LinkedIn reveals its list of the most overused words of 2012 and offers five expert tips for polishing for the New Year.

LinkedIn Tip: How to Find the Right Group for You

With more than 1 million LinkedIn Groups around, finding the one that best suits your needs can be quite a challenge. But now, with LinkedIn's new Groups Statistics dashboard, you have all the help you need to make an informed decision. Here's what you need to know.

LinkedIn Tip: Why You Need a Mentor and How to Find One

New research from LinkedIn finds that women aren't reaching their full potential by seeking out or becoming a mentor. Here's a look at why, plus tips for how you can find and initiate a fruitful relationship.

5 LinkedIn Tips for Career Success in 2012

From sprucing up your profile to branding yourself as an expert, here's how you can better use the professional social network to set you on the path to success.