In this case, though, we're just going to say I'm a student which changes the fields to let you fill out your school information, so enter that information here.

Then it's asking you to enter your most recent job title. After you've proved that you're a real person, it will walk you through the process of setting up the basic information of your account and then you can click next. Next you'll have to follow some more steps to verify that you're a real person, this may involve providing a phone number to receive a verification code or solving a puzzle to prove that you're a human and not a computer, just follow through the verification steps that show up. So we'll fill that out for Michelle Johnson and click continue. This is how your name will be displayed on your profile. I'll click agree and join, next you'll need to fill out some information starting with your first name and last name. Next we want to create a secure password and currently you're required to come up with a password that's at least six characters and as with all passwords for security reasons it should be unique and not one that you've used on other websites. You can create a new account with an existing email address or you can sign in with your Google account if you have one, for this example I'm going to use an email address.

So to create a new account we'll come here to the upper right and click join now. Now, keep in mind that the look and layout of this signup page may change but the process for signing up will be pretty much the same.

This is also the page that you'll use to sign in with once you have an account created. So we start by navigating to in our web browser. In order to demonstrate this, throughout parts of this course I'll be setting up and working with a fictitious account for Michelle Johnson, who we'll say is a junior studying marketing at the Roux Academy. Let's take a look at how to set up a new LinkedIn profile from the perspective of a student.

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