Building Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn

Create Your Social Network Professionally on LinkedIn

Branding & Brand Identity5.0(62)1h 55m12 lectures2 sections

What you'll learn

  • Create a personal account on LinkedIn
  • Choose tools for a professional profile photo
  • Design the background banner and write a professional headline
  • Write the profile summary
  • Show education, experience and skills and ask for recommendations
  • Build a complete social network
  • Create a professional page
  • Set a content strategy on LinkedIn
  • Use the extended features on LinkedIn

About this course

This course explains how to build your personal brand on LinkedIn step by step, from creating the account to writing content and building a network. It starts with an introduction to LinkedIn, then creating a personal account, tools for making a professional profile photo, steps to design the background banner, and writing a professional headline. After that you learn to write the profile summary, show your education, experience and skills, ask for recommendations, then build a complete social network and create a professional page. It closes with LinkedIn content strategy and the extended features on LinkedIn. The course helps anyone who wants to improve their career path, look for a job or appear as an expert in their field, whether you are an employee, a new graduate or a business owner. You need no previous LinkedIn experience: all you need is an email account and a device connected to the internet. By the end you will be able to set up a professional profile, build a network with professionals in your field and publish content that increases your visibility and your followers' engagement.

Expected outcomes

  • Ability to build a strong personal brand on LinkedIn.
  • Highlight your profile professionally to increase job opportunities.
  • Create a strong network with professionals in your field.
  • Use content strategies to enhance engagement with your audience.
  • Leverage LinkedIn features to support your career development.

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    كورس ممتاز ينقلنا خطوة خطوة لانشاء حساب احترافي في لينكدين

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Course content

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Building Personal Brand on LinkedIn

11 lectures
  1. Introduction to LinkedInIntroduces LinkedIn, its main pages, features and services such as jobs, learning and professional networking, the value of investing time in it, targeting, and how it differs from other social networks.14:28
  2. Creating a Personal Account on LinkedInWalks through creating a personal LinkedIn account, how each piece of information entered at sign-up affects the account's performance, with an example of a professional profile, starting with the profile photo.13:30
  3. Tools for Creating a Professional Profile PictureExplains what makes a professional LinkedIn profile photo: close framing, looking at the camera, a neutral background, a light smile and good lighting, what to avoid, a tool to rate the photo, then uploading it.4:17
  4. Steps to Create a BackgroundExplains the role of the LinkedIn banner in sending a message to the target audience, how to design it with an easy design tool, and its rules: fit the industry and audience, look professional, and avoid the profile photo area.4:24
  5. Creating a Professional Headline on LinkedInExplains writing the LinkedIn headline as an invitation that draws visitors in, why to include the keywords people search for so the profile appears in results, and how to pick them from job titles.6:13
  6. Profile SummaryExplains writing the LinkedIn About section, the stop where visitors judge how professional a profile is, by telling your educational and career journey, opening with a hook, then presenting experience and achievements.7:56
  7. Education, Experience, Skills, and Requesting Recommendations on LinkedInExplains adding education, work experience and skills on LinkedIn, how experience is ordered chronologically, how skills are categorized, and how to request trust-based recommendations from colleagues.10:39
  8. Creating a Comprehensive Social NetworkExplains building a LinkedIn network and reaching the target audience through university alumni, email contacts and pages, writing outreach messages that highlight a shared interest, then moving on to company pages.9:36
  9. Creating a Professional PageExplains creating a professional LinkedIn company page: requirements and page types, logo, banner, tagline, About text, specialties and location, with examples of local and global pages.12:50
  10. LinkedIn Content StrategyExplains LinkedIn content strategy to grow followers and product awareness, content types such as success stories, the structure of a good post (hook, content, call to action), and tools like images, video and polls.12:23
  11. Expanded Features on LinkedInCovers extra LinkedIn features: a professional profile URL, enabling Open to Work, searching for people, companies and decision makers, using the available courses, then a recap of the course.19:10
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Add-ons

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  1. Assessment Test

Instructor

Dr. Mohamed Shaaban

Dr. Mohamed Shaaban

PhD researcher in strategic management with a professional master's in business administration and an academic master's in marketing. Consultant in B2B marketing.
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