Leaving this open to Everyone simply makes you easier to find, and allows more people to ask to connect with you on LinkedIn. It's important to note - you can still refuse to connect with someone even if they have your email address! Or any of the email addresses you have added as shown above. I recommend you set this to the default of ' Everyone' so that everyone on LinkedIn can ask to connect with you if they know your email address. When you receive the verification email, you click on a link that verifies the address with LinkedIn, and this email is then added to your LinkedIn account.īut you're not done yet! 2: Adding permission to be 'found' by email address.Ĭlick to change the settings for suggesting you as a connection based on your email address. This triggers an email to that address, used to verify it. A simple dialogue box opens, and you then enter your email address. Click to make changes here, and scroll down for the option to add a new address.Ĭlick on 'Add email address'. It's essentially the first thing you see on the Sign in & security tab, first (and only) section, first item. You reach this by clicking your little photo at top right. It's easy - go to your Privacy & Settings and click to manage these. You will miss out on connecting with the important people that you probably should have a connection to: people who already know you, and who have communicated with you in the past. If you don't, your network's going to be smaller. Tell LinkedIn you are happy to have people connect with you if they know any of those addresses.Add all your own email addresses (work and personal) to your LinkedIn account.LinkedIn positively encourages this behaviour for all of its members - it's the menu item called Add Contacts below My Network and it suggests connections based on who's in your email address book.

The person is already a member on LinkedIn, and has registered that email address with LinkedIn.

The new members' email contact list contains a third party's email.When a new member joins LinkedIn, or someone is looking to grow their LinkedIn network, one of the first things they do is to connect with people on LinkedIn who meet two criteria: This might seem very mundane, and not really a great way to improve your profile on LinkedIn.

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