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LinkedIn Headshots: How to take a professional photo

Written by Samantha Oates-Miller, Career Insights and Graduate Support Assistant If you are setting up or refreshing your LinkedIn profile, you will want to include a recent photo of yourself. This quick guide will help you ensure the photo you take is professional and well laid out. 1. Location Find a location with a plain…
Graduate job hunting using LinkedIn

Written by Samantha Oates-Miller, Careers Insights and Graduate Support Assistant at the Careers Service and Hui Huang, MA Educational Leadership 2020, Research Executive at The Insights People Hui graduated in December 2020 with a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from The University of Manchester. She now works as a Research Executive at Manchester-based market intelligence…
LinkedIn – How do I know if this postgraduate course is right for me?

Choosing a postgraduate course is no easy tasks, with lots of different factors to consider, such as cost, content and location. LinkedIn can help you make that decision by allowing you to search for alumni of a course to see what they’re up to now and if this aligns with your desired career path. To…
LinkedIn – Where can I find other companies like this one?

Usually big names in an industry aren’t hard to find, whether it be Atkins for civil engineers, the BBC for journalists and broadcasters, or the Big Four in accounting. However, only 14% of graduates enter into graduate schemes with blue chip companies. There’s so much opportunity out there with smaller enterprises so its key that…
Three tips to improve your LinkedIn profile

Make a positive impression with your headline The headline is the most visible section of your LinkedIn; it is displayed under your name when users search for you and it’s on top of your profile page. More to the point, it is the first thing a recruiter will see when they search for potential candidates.…
LinkedIn – Why sign up?

LinkedIn is a constantly-evolving and useful tool in pursuing any career, but it can seem overwhelming with its long list of functions. Over the next few weeks we’ll be creating a series of blog posts giving you all the ins and outs of LinkedIn and how to get the most out of it. To start…
New LinkedIn desktop version: what you need to know!

Well, it’s all change at LinkedIn, and they seem to have finished the roll out of their new desktop user interface. It has been given a bit of a makeover, to bring it into line with the mobile version which has also changed some of the functionality. We’re in the process of updating our LinkedIn…
LinkedIn: Use Alumni Search to get Career Insights from other Manchester Graduates

Manchester University has one of the largest Alumni populations on LinkedIn, and you can search the profiles of our Alumni (and current students on LinkedIn) to find out what people who did your course went on to do next, or just for career inspiration. Here’s how… Search for “The University of Manchester” in the main…
Myth #8: LinkedIn is just about showing off.

The abundance of less than flattering display pictures on there is alone enough to debunk this myth. But it is not uncommon for students to be unsure about what Linkedin is for, even if they use it themselves. The social media site has been built with recruitment in mind and can be a very powerful…
Personalise your LinkedIn invitation emails

What if somebody you don’t know throws a business card at you and says “Do you want to network with me?” and then walks off again? Would you go after them? Would you pick up their business card? Probably not. So let’s not do the LinkedIn equivalent by using that generic template: “I’d like to…