Creating a 'Avatar' LinkedIn profile
Devin Kearns
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35 steps
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3 minutes
LinkedIn
Gmail
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Navigate to [https://www.linkedin.com/](https://www.linkedin.com/)
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Click "Join now"
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Enter in your desired login info for the Avatar. \ \ This will likely be the email you created for them and a password.
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Enter your Avatar's name.
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Enter in the location of your Avatar based on the Postal code.
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We always put "Growth Assistant at \[Company name\]" but this can be whatever you prefer.
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Click this dropdown.
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Click the "Most recent company" field.
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Enter Full-time & your company. Click Continue.
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Click "No, I’m not interested in any job opportunity" if you don't want the account to get spammed with job offers every day.
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"Connect" with everyone on your team to start.
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Click "Add photo" to add the profile photo that you created earlier.
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Click "Save photo"
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Sometime this lags, don't worry, just click "Skip"
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Click "Next"
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Click "Finish"
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Now, navigate to your profile by clicking "Me"
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Click "View Profile"
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Add a cover photo.
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Click "My home office"
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Click "Save"
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Now we need to add the experience.
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Click "Add position"
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Now fill in all of the proper experience information. You will want the profile to be as fleshed out as possible. Ensure that the timelines of the experience make sense, as well as the descriptions.
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In the "Company name" field, you will likely be inputting companies that do not exist or are not listed on LinkedIn. That is okay.
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Click "Add skill"
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Click here.
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Click "Add skill"
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Click "Social Media"
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Click "Add skill"
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Click here.
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Click "Save"
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Click "Skip"
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Next, you'll want to ask for a recommendation. You can ask yourself and other members of your team. This will go along way to legitimizing the account in the eyes of LinkedIn.
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Continue filling in the experience as well the education. Add as many skills that make sense.
