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Overview
The dashboard to your professional world.
Your LinkedIn homepage provides you with an overview of what’s going on in your network with Network Updates and the latest news, jobs, and answers. Use your homepage to:
- View your latest messages and get network updates from colleagues and connections
- Read the latest news about your company, competitors, and industry and discuss it with colleagues
- Browse the latest jobs, questions, and answers that match your interests
Inbox
The inbox is the control panel for all of your LinkedIn user interactions, including messages, introductions, and connection requests. Quickly assess the items in your inbox that need action. If you already know what you need to do, simply hover over the “take action” button to immediately reply or archive it. Clicking on the subject takes you to your inbox to review and address the message.
News
Use the power of your network to see and discuss the most important news that matters for your company. Your customized news feed is just for you and your colleagues—no one else sees it.
There are four clickable tabs to news:
- Most Discussed: the articles that are the most popular among people in your company
- Company: the articles about the company you work for
- Other Companies: the articles about the companies that are similar to yours
- Industry: the articles about the industry that you work in
Clicking on the article opens it in a new window so you can easily return to LinkedIn after you’re done reading. There is a ‘discuss’ link next to each article allowing you to comment and engage in a discussion about the article with other members of your organization.
To open the full LinkedIn news page which allows you to share the article with other connections, recommend the article to your network, etc., click on the “News” heading at the top of the module.
Network Updates
Sorted in chronological order, your Network Updates feed displays the latest activity of your connections. You’ll find things such as their current status, groups recently joined, questions asked and answered, and who your network has recently connected to.
What is status?
Your status message allows you to display professional updates to your network. By displaying things such as what you’re currently working on, and where you’re planning on traveling to, etc., you invite your network to help you with advice and recommendations. You can set your status message by clicking “what are you working on?” on the left column on your home page.
- Clicking on the group name in your Updates will bring you the page to join the group.
- Hovering over a person’s name will bring up a summary of their profile; clicking on it will take you to their profile. You can also click “send message” in the summary profiles of your connections to immediately send them a message.
- You can control the types and number of notifications that show up in your Network Updates feed in your settings.
Just Joined LinkedIn
Wondering which of your Colleagues and Classmates are on LinkedIn? The Just Joined LinkedIn section highlights new LinkedIn users that have worked or attended the companies and schools listed on your profile. Just click on these links, find the people you know, and invite them to connect.
Don’t see a Company or School in the “Just Joined LinkedIn” section? Make sure to add it to your Profile.
Profile Views
Your LinkedIn profile is one of the best ways to take control of your online brand. This module displays how often you’ve appeared in search results and how many times your profile has been viewed. Click on “see more” to see information on who has actually viewed your Profile.
Additional Modules
The modules on the right of your page allow you to customize the types of information that you want to see– such as, Answers, People Search, and Jobs. Click edit in the blue title bar and you can select the category/type of information displayed to you on your home page. If you want more information of a particular type (such as Answers content in multiple categories) just add another module of that type via the “Add a Module” link at the bottom of the column. You can also drag and drop the modules to reposition them.
When you see something interesting in one of these modules you can click the link to take you directly to that content.