Your profile

Your profile is your CV and business card online. Please introduce yourself first and then describe your career path and education, your skills and interests. The more you complete your profile, the more likely members will request to contact you.

To link your blog to your Viadeo profile, click on 'My Profile: My Blog: Add my blog' to list your blog on Viadeo and then add a widget allowing you to see which Viadeo members visited your blog.

A link to your blog will be added to your Viadeo profile and if you place your mouse over the blog link you will then see a summary of the blog and the last messages posted.

Introduce yourself before your show people your CV. Put a short summary of your experience and abilities but keep it brief and containing your keywords.

You can add a description of your current and past positions. Use the 'Add an position' link to add a description of each position, with what the company does and what you did and do for them.

Add your education experiences so that you can keep in touch with your former classmates on Viadeo.

Clicking 'My company' and add a summary about your company. This is a very good way to promote your company and business. The data entered in this section will be used by the 'Products Services' search engine.

In the 'My account', change your basic information (Last name, first name, password), add a second email address and indicate how you use Viadeo (e.g. to find clients, suppliers, career opportunities etc).

You can choose how much information you would like to display on search engines.

By clicking on the 'My Profile' link and then 'My Blog' you can list your blog by topic.

Your blog will be visible to all Viadeo members in real time.

You can also add a widget to your blog. This will show the list of Viadeo members who visited your blog.

Adding your blog increases visits from all Viadeo members.

The email you used to register on Viadeo is your primary email address.

You can add another email address.

• Go to Profile: My Account: Email and password
• At the bottom of the screen, enter the new email address and click on 'add'.
• Then confirm the address by clicking the link in the email that will be sent to you.

You can then log in with either of these two addresses. Any invitation sent to either of these addresses will reach you.

However, when you send an introduction, it is the primary email address will be used. If you would like it to be the second address, return to Profile: My Account: Email and password and make the second address your main address.

In the Information Thread section, you can access the list of alerts you have asked to receive by email (personalised summary, job offers from one or several categories...). You can later change, delete or add email new alerts.

Saved search results are stored in  Saved Search