Here’s how you get LinkedIn:

1. Start your own account at LinkedIn.com (it’s free). 
2.  Complete your personal profile. The more information you provide, the more connections you can make.
3. Join the Woodlands Community Temple group. We regularly post information about job openings we’ve learned about, as well as helpful advice for weathering these times. This also opens a door for you with every other WCT member in our group.
4. Send out LinkedIn invitations to friends, past and present colleagues, family members and neighbors to join your LinkedIn network, to help build additional important connections.
5. Join other groups. Whether it’s your college or high school alumni group, or a group of fellow swing dance enthusiasts, more contacts become available to you as you share common life-threads with others.
6. Then, as you learn about jobs (either on LinkedIn or elsewhere), you can search for someone on LinkedIn to help get you a foot in the door by personally introducing you to the person you need to get to.

What’s truly extraordinary about LinkedIn is that, even if you don’t know that person, you may very well know someone who knows someone, etc. LinkedIn shows you the path of contacts that can get you there.

By working the LinkedIn network, thousands of possibilities can open up for you. With the vast power of the internet, you may just be able to find your way into a new future for yourself and for the people you love. Need help? Contact temple member Karen (Katz) Fox: kkatz@forumgrp.com.

LinkedIn PROJECT ... TO HELP EVERYONE WEATHER THESE TIMES

If you’re finding the need to trim expenses, either at home or at work, we may be able to help there too. In our Woodlands group, members are posting information about ways to save money. And LinkedIn is a great tool to help grow and enhance connections for already-operating businesses. Look for vendors, offer new positions, share ideas and concerns with others in your field. LinkedIn can be there for you in good years as well as lean. Please follow steps 1-4 above. As your networking circle grows, more resources will become available to you, as well.

LinkedIn PROJECT ... TO HELP YOU HELP OTHERS

Acts of kindness are on the increase all across the United States. It would seem that difficult times bring front-and-center the desire to give a hand. In order for WCT’s LinkedIn Project to truly be helpful, we need as many of our temple members to sign on as possible. You may be the all-important link to connect a fellow member to the person who can get them their next job. The wider your circle, the more likely you’ll be someone’s link to a step up. 

Please follow steps 1-4 above. In these difficult times, it’s good to be able to do something to help.

WCT’s LinkedIn PROJECT

So as you can see, the LinkedIn Project is for everyone. Whether times are really tough, mildly tough, or fairly okay, we hope you will join the Project. Get LinkedIn with us, and we’ll move into tomorrow together. And by the way, if you’re in any way confused about how to get LinkedIn to work for you, just post your question on our WCT group’s “Discussions” page. Someone will get you an answer that we’re certain others will appreciate seeing as well.