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When a friend or colleague invites you to join, you receive an email invitation. The email clearly identifies the sender and usually has Invitation to connect on LinkedIn as its subject line. (There’s a chance, though, that the sender came up with a custom header, because LinkedIn now has built-in options for the sender to choose a custom reason for the invitation.)

When you open the message, you see an invitation to join LinkedIn, such as the message shown in Figure 2-1. There might be some extra text if the person inviting you personalized the message. You also see a button or link that takes you back to LinkedIn to create your account, such as the Join to View Invitation button shown in Figure 2-1.

FIGURE 2-1: An invitation to connect on LinkedIn.

When you’re ready to join LinkedIn with an invitation, you’ll start with these two steps:

1 Click the button or link from your invitation email.A new window appears that goes to the LinkedIn website, as shown in Figure 2-2.FIGURE 2-2: Provide your name and create a password.

2 Enter your email address, and create a new password for your account. If you want to use a different email address from the one used for your invitation, you can change the details by clicking the Not You? link below the Email field.

3 Click the Agree & Join button.You are taken to the next part of the sign-up process, where you provide basic information that LinkedIn will use to create your account. I cover the remainder of the sign-up process in “Completing the sign-up process,” later in this chapter.

Try to choose a password that no one else can guess. You should use a combination of letters and numbers, and avoid commonly used passwords such as your name, the word password, a string of letters or numbers that are next to each other on the keyboard (for example, qwerty), or a password that you use on many other sites.