https://sueellson.com How to create a LinkedIn Account with your name and email address (and for a student) with Independent LinkedIn Specialist, Sue Ellson TRANSCRIPT Hi there. Today I'd like to show you how to create a brand new LinkedIn Profile and the person's name I'm going to be using is Sophie Sugars and Sophie Sugars has a Gmail email address and we need an email address to be able to create this account. So to join, I'm at the website LinkedIn.com and I can just go over here to the right hand side and click Join Now and I can put in my email address sophiesugars8@gmail.com and I can add in a password and you can see here it needs six or more characters so I'll just put in my regular one and I can agree and join and my first name Sophie and last name Sugars and here's a quick security check to make sure that I'm a real person and not a robot, pick the image the right way up. And now it's automatically worked out based on where my internet connection is that I'm here in Melbourne so that information is all correct and it's asking to see if I'm a student or my most recent job title so for the sake of this exercise I'm going to suggest a Student or you can just type in your name so we'll say student and you can mention the school where you're studying in so the school I went to Henley High School and I'm studying let's say year 12 and VCE and I started that last year for example and I expect to complete it this year and I'm over 16 so I can continue everything on that screen is okay to say yes to. Now it sent an email to my email address and I need to put that code in so here is my email 926631 I can pop that in here agree and confirm. I'm not looking for a job right now now this is an important step that I want to make sure you understand. It's asking me to add my email contacts to my LinkedIn account and I do not recommend this. I would rather you invite the people you know to connect rather than invite everybody you've ever emailed so this is an important step where I suggest you Skip and you say Yes I do want to skip and now I can start creating my profile so I can add my photo and do that information. I don't have that right now so I'll just choose skip again and I can also have the LinkedIn app on my phone again I'm going to skip that for now although I do recommend that you have the LinkedIn app on your phone but I recommend that you do that through your own system not through giving the LinkedIn your phone number okay so to get started they've suggested that I follow particular companies and they're obviously trying to encourage me to do as many as possible let's say I'll follow LinkedIn and I can choose finish and now my profile is ready to get started and I'll show you how to do the setup in much more detail further on. The main thing I want you to remember when you set up a LinkedIn account is not to connect your phone or your email address to LinkedIn at this stage. Thanks You can learn more about Sue Ellson and follow me on social media at Website https://sueellson.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sueellson Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sueellson2 Twitter https://twitter.com/sueellson Instagram https://instagram.com/sueellson YouTube (Subscribe) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOhckRXATKRvbqU6GNbys8A YouTube (Playlist) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkTG344YGqRFLn7muFy15YAhb2lG_0SWU