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Homework 3 emphasizes using professional networking sites such as LinkedIn. In this homework, you will:

• create and use a LinkedIn account to interact with friends

Note: For these activities within LinkedIn, you are welcome to include your professor and other students in the class. However, you do not have to. You are welcome to just use your known friends.

• specific activities for this homework include:

1. If needed, create your LinkedIn account.
2. Login and complete and personalize your profile.
3. While completing your profile, be sure to include current and previous position, education, personal and additional information as appropriate.
4. Find connections to your friends
5. Research a couple of companies you might be interested in seeking employment with in the future.
6. Configure and customize your privacy settings in LinkedIn.

• Prepare a well-written paper no more than 2–5 pages in length and cover the process of setting up the account, issues you encountered, privacy settings, and how you envision using this account in the future. Be sure to show a screen capture of your profile and of your company research. Also, be sure to discuss your reasoning behind your current privacy settings. Discuss any personal or computer security issues you have with using LinkedIn or other professional networking sites.

Submission requirements:

Your completed assignment should be saved as a Word document and submitted to your LEO assignments area no later than the due date listed in the syllabus. Your document should be neat, well-written with minimal grammatical and spelling errors. Your name should be clearly listed on the first page along with the class/section, professor and due date. Your document should contain page numbers at the bottom of each page. Single or double space line formatting is acceptable.

You should name the file yournamehw3.docx (or yournamehw3.doc). So if my name was Julie Smith, I would name my document juliesmithhw3.docx.

Your name should be clearly listed on the first page along with the class/section, professor and due date. Your document should contain page numbers at the bottom of each page. Single or double space line formatting is acceptable. All references used for your report should be included in APA style format.