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DAY 7 Careers Tip Code: Snow

To win a selection box - be the seventh person to DM the code to @ulcareersservice on Instagram.

I’d like to think most of us realise how valuable LinkedIn is.  It’s far more than a networking site with job vacancies - the site offers a way for students and graduates to explore their career options, something made even easier with the Alumni tool - find out what alumni from your course or university did after graduation. This means that LinkedIn is a networking site, somewhere to find relevant jobs and an intelligence gathering tool for career development.

The latter is what we want to focus on here. LinkedIn makes creating a profile easy and intuitive but often students feel their profile has to be perfect . This mindset gets in the way of them actually using the site itself. The UL Careers Service are more than happy to advise students on their profiles (See Ultimate LinkedIn Cheat Sheet) but we want to help the general student population to see that LinkedIn is a lot more than just another version of your CV.

It is important to remember that LinkedIn is your professional face to the world or work, with that in mind, here are our 13 reasons why every student should join LinkedIn

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