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Administrative Assistant's
UPDATE
Click on the middle tab: "Privacy" and scroll
down to "Profi le viewing options"
STEP 2:
Going deep undercover
Secretly creeping researching the competition
By Leslie Hughes
During almost every LinkedIn training session, I'm asked:
"Leslie, how can I look at someone else's profi le privately? I
want to check out their profi le, but I don't want them to see
that I'm looking."
Then the group usually giggles because we have
ALL wanted to secretly check out other people's profi les,
haven't we?
I'm going to show you how to do this, but I want to make
one thing clear: You cannot trust any Social Media site.
Glitches happen.
So do changes to
the infrastructure.
As of today, once you've changed your setting, the person
you're looking at will NOT get a notifi cation. We never
know what could happen tomorrow, or if there's a secret
"workaround."
Still curious? Here's the three-step way you can
anonymously look at your competition:
Leslie Hughes was called a "Social Media Guru" by CBC Radio and has been working in digital marketing
since 1997. She is a LinkedIn optimization specialist, professor of social media, corporate trainer and principal
of PUNCH!media. PUNCH!media clients include The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada, Guardian Life
Insurance Company of America and TVO.
www.punchmedia.ca (sign up for weekly newsletter)
leslie@punchmedia.ca
STRATEGIES
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Evan
Lorne/Shutterstock
Mouse over your image in the top right hand side and scroll down to
the "Privacy & Settings" link or type wwwlinkedincom/psettings/
into your browser
STEP 1:
Leslie Hughes
Choose your desired level of anonymity
STEP 3:
Once you've changed this setting, no one should be able
to see you've looked at their profi le, including Premium
Members.
Also, once you've changed this setting, you will also lose
access to see who has looked at YOUR profi le as well.
The safest option to avoid any mishaps with someone
seeing you've looked at their profi le is to simply visit
LinkedIn.com from a browser or computer you've never
used before. Search for the person WITHOUT logging in to
LinkedIn.
The only way the person will be able to see that you've
looked at their profi le is if you are logged into the site, or if
you've modifi ed your settings as listed above.
Happy sleuthing!
