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Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of blog posts by LinkedIn’s amazing summer interns. Today, we hear from Tiffany Lim who is currently a student at Harvey Mudd College.

Before my internship here at LinkedIn, I had never spent more than three consecutive days in the Bay Area. Now, I’ve been here for almost three months. Not only have I been able to explore the usual tourist attractions, but I’ve also been immersed in the culture and atmosphere of Silicon Valley. So what makes living in this area such a unique experience?

Finding a job can be hard. Finding a job when you’re not exactly sure what kind of job you want can be really, really hard. Perhaps you’ve recently graduated, you’ve been laid off from a shrinking industry or you just have a sense that you might be happier in a different career.

If you find yourself asking, “What should I do with my life?” this summer, I recommend this 3-step strategy for using LinkedIn to research your career options:

You may have heard that students are the fastest growing demographic on LinkedIn. There are currently 20 million students and recent graduates from around the world on LinkedIn today, and we couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to help these aspiring professionals manage and build their career paths.

As part of our ongoing efforts to help students and alumni fulfill their career goals, we’ve been working closely with select higher education institutions to better understand the needs of students and alumni as they start and continue thinking about building their professional identities. The College Pilot Program also aims to provide participating schools with various tools and access to LinkedIn’s products, which will help their alumni and career services teams to better support students and alumni with career development and to help the schools build stronger alumni networks.

Editor’s Note: As part of LinkedIn’s inDay Speaker Series, our colleague Deidre Caldbeck invited Professor Clayton Christensen from Harvard Business School to talk about his new book How Will You Measure Your Life?. Below is a recap including the full recording of his riveting talk.

Professor Clayton Christensen is well known for his best-selling publication, The Innovator’s Dilemma, and several successful follow-on books where he applies his influential theory of disruptive innovation to social issues like education and healthcare. Clay not only has an incredibly intelligent and visionary mind, but he’s also a caring, thoughtful, and witty individual. I was fortunate enough to get a seat in his popular class at Harvard Business School, and to get to know him on a more personal level as a family friend. After being inspired by his most recent book, How Will You Measure Your Life?, where he takes his impactful business teachings and applies them to an individual’s personal life, I asked Clay to share his thoughts with my fellow colleagues at LinkedIn.