Moving your contacts into a spreadsheet is as easy as pie
➔ Part of any successful job search is accumulating, expanding and managing your contacts. One of the advantages of the 21st Century job search is being able to use LinkedIn to do just that. Using a simple Google search will unearth numerous ways to turn your contact list into a working contact management system.
It’s super easy
Fortunately, LinkedIn gives you a way to start you on that process by being able to download all your LinkedIn contacts into an Excel spreadsheet. With your contacts safely loaded into Excel, you’ll be well on your way to managing your contacts.
Here is a step-by-step guide as to how to do this – directly from LinkedIn:
Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.
Select Settings & Privacy from the dropdown.
Click the Privacy tab at the top of the page.
Under the How LinkedIn uses your data section, click Change next to download your data.
Note: You may be prompted to sign in.
You’ll be redirected to the Download your data page where you can select Connections.
You will receive an email to your Primary Email address which will include a link where you can download your list of connections.
LinkedIn does offer a couple of caveats regarding the process:
The CSV and vCard formats don't support all characters. As a result, languages with extended character sets, such as Chinese, Japanese, or Hebrew are not supported.
You currently can't export a list of your contacts that are not 1st-degree connections.
That’s pretty much it. If you need more, there is additional information available on the topic directly from LinkedIn.
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