What this book covers

Vanity URL (Must know) explains how to create your own personalized vanity URL, which can be a potent marketing tool for your profile.

LinkedIn profile headline (Must know) illustrates how to set up your LinkedIn profile headline. Your headline is the first thing that is read about you by the other LinkedIn users, even before they get a chance to have a look at your detailed profile.

Making your profile stand out (Should know) provides you with some steps that you can perform to make your profile stand out.

Adding a video, image, document, or presentation to your profile (Should know) explains how you can display your CV and work-related presentations, videos, and so on, on your LinkedIn profile.

Messaging practically anyone with a LinkedIn account (Must know) discusses one of the most useful and powerful features of LinkedIn. In this recipe, you will learn the right approach to introducing yourself or messaging any user, before sending a connection request from your basic account.

The power of LinkedIn recommendations (Must know) explains how to write a recommendation for your colleague, mentor, student, or business partner, or to ask for one.

Taking a backup of your growing LinkedIn network (Must know) illustrates how to save the contact information for all your connections in one place.

Growing your LinkedIn network the right way (Must know) discusses how your LinkedIn connections help you develop an online network of people who may help you achieve your objective.

Steps to increase your popularity (Become an expert) discusses how to increase your popularity by active participation in a few target groups.

Sharing your LinkedIn status updates with Twitter and Facebook (Become an expert) explains how to synchronize the LinkedIn status updates with Twitter and the Twitter tweets with Facebook.

Introduction to searching for jobs on LinkedIn (Should know) explains how to look for available job openings on LinkedIn.

Equipping yourself with the advanced search skills (Become an expert) illustrates how to search for people by using the Skills & Expertise feature.

Following your target companies (Should know) discusses how to follow a company via LinkedIn.