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Foundation: Exploring My Community - Social Media Guide

Engagement

Connect through invitation requests

  • Send invitations to others to join your network and they can choose to accept or not.
  • If they accept, they become your 1st connection.
  • 2nd connections are not your connections, they are someone else's 1st connection.
  • Follow people.
  • Join Groups.

Start Connecting

Identify someone you know, like a colleague, then in the Search field type in their name. Once you find your colleague, click on the blue CONNECT button. A popup window will appear, click on ADD A NOTE.

ALWAYS personalize your invitations. Always "Add a Note" and customize your invitation note. This is a crucial step, it is akin to calling someone you don't know and not introducing yourself!

Important tip: LinkedIn will provide suggestions for people to connect with in the My Network section. But If you click on the CONNECT button on the person's profile in this section, you will NOT be able to personalize your connection request. It's better to use the method above so that you can personalize your request. 

Connect With Alumni

In the Search field, type in Royal Roads University. Once you find Royal Roads's page, on the left hand side navigation menu, click on ALUMNI. 

Here you can see criteria specific to a schools' alumni: where they live, where they work, what they do, what they studied, what they are skilled at, and how you are connected, then you can click on specific identifiers within each of the categories to narrow your results.

Tip: Once you identify an alum whom you want to connect with, search the alum via the Search field so that you can use the CONNECT button and personalize your connection invitation.

Jobs

On the top navigation bar, click on the jobs icon. Search a job by typing in a title, skill or company in the SEARCH field and type in the city, province, or country and related job postings will come up.

Even though you can apply directly to the posting from LinkedIn, we highly recommend applying directly to the business/organization.

Groups

In the Search field, type in groups and a list of thousands of groups will be shown. In addition, on the top navigation bar, click on the Work icon, click on Groups and work related groups will be displayed.