LinkedIn Help

Creating a Profile 🧑‍🎓

LinkedIn is a professional networking and resume website and app that allows people to showcase their experience, search for jobs, or post about their company. As a college student, it is crucial to make and develop a LinkedIn, as many jobs as for LinkedIn profiles when applying, or you can even apply directly through the platform. From out own survey conducted, less than 10% of respondents considered themselves “experts” at LinkedIn, while more than half considered themselves average at using or said they had no experience at all with using. It is hard to find help or guidance with creating or maintaining a LinkedIn profile, so this page is useful to gain insight on how to do these crucial steps for the job or internship application process.

How to Job Search on Linkedin 👔

After creating and developing your LinkedIn account, check out the video below on how to efficiently search for jobs based on location, title, salary, and more.

Networking Message Templates 🗒️

Networking is defined on Google as “the action or process of interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts.” When applying for internships or jobs, many do not realise the importance of networking before even applying, or using networking to land a job. You can use many different platforms to network, including LinkedIn, Handshake, CUeLINKS, or even emailing. We have included a Google Doc including a few templates that are useful for reaching out to alumni, employees of a company you are interested in, or even potential employers. Please take a look at our networking templates here

Cornell Resources 🎒

Below are links to various Cornell resources that can help with LinkedIn or Networking:

• Canvas Career Planning Course
  • This course is available to any Cornell students and has walkthrough modules that help guide many processes regarding internships, jobs, LinkedIn, and more. This course can sometimes be overwhelming and daunting to go through, but can still be an useful resource if needed.
• Handshake
  • All Cornell students should create a Handshake account just as they did a LinkedIn account. The premise is essentially the same, but Handshake is a job site where employers specifically asked for Cornell students to apply.
• Cornell Career Services Personal Networking Strategy Workbook
  • This PDF workbook is helpful to go through and develop a personal networking strategy. It can be used for long-term networking goals and figuring out your connections. This workbook is lengthy, so if you are in more of a rush it may be useful to just use one of the templates from above.
• CUeLINKS
  • This site is essentially LinkedIn for only members of the Cornell community. On CUeLINKS, students can reach out to alumni or staff for networking, career advice, or even just life advice. You can search for alumni with specific majors, locations, job titles, or companies they work for. Reaching out to Cornell alumni is the easiest way to network since you already have something in common: a Cornell education!