Outline how you would expect the LinkedIn account to provide any advantage to you in the recruitment and selection process

You are required to demonstrate your knowledge of the use of social media in recruitment and selection as part of this assignment.

You need every advantage you can get to obtain suitable employment. This will include letting potential employers know a little about you.

Your first step should be to create, if you do not already have one, a basic LinkedIn account.

If you don’t currently have a LinkedIn account, sign up for a *free* LinkedIn account at http://www.linkedin.com.

Once the account is created, you should complete your profile. Remember, in creating this profile, the type of job you wish to be contacted for. The education and experience listed should be written with that goal in mind.

Your next step is to add skills, knowledge and abilities. Again, these should relate to the job you wish to obtain.

To complete the assignment, you must:

1. Create a profile

2. Add your education and experience

3. Add your skills, knowledge and abilities

4. Ask others to add to the KSAO section, if they wish.

5. Send requests to link to at least one other student in the class.

6. Send a request to link to me: professor

Your report to me should include:

Prepare a summary of the process to create 1,2 and 3
Outline how you would expect the LinkedIn account to provide any advantage to you in the recruitment and selection process
Include commentary on any contacts you may receive from LinkedIn or other users of LinkedIn
Finally, indicate whether your feel there may be any issues – personal, legal or ethical – with the use of LinkedIn, either to make yourself known to recruiters, or as a recruitment tool to seek employees.