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Career Clinic: LinkedOut?

Networking and making connections – do all those LinkedIn connections actually belong to you?

Have you ever wondered whether LinkedIn connections that you have added after breakfast seminars, client dos and networking events are actually yours? When you leave your employer, are you entitled to take the connections with you?

Usually, if there is no express agreement to the contrary, the LinkedIn account would belong to the person who opened it and they would enter into the contract with LinkedIn and retain the password. The connections made would be the personal property of the account holder.

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