7 Ways To Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile
7 Ways To Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile
1. Be sure to add a profile photo. It's a chance for people to form a visual connection with your feed. Statistics show that LinkedIn members with a photo receive far more engagement: 21 times more profile views and 9 times more connection requests. Consider getting a professional headshot, however it's not about how you look, but rather how you present yourself.
2. Make your headline more than just your "job title". Use it as an opportunity to share a little bit about yourself and your role within the company. In other words, share your "why" about what makes you passionate about your job.
3. Post and/or share relevant content to your feed. LinkedIn is more than just a place to look for a new job, it's an opportunity to network and form viable connections with other professionals within your industry!
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4. Engage with the people in your network. Aside from the fact that it's a great way for you to strengthen your connections, like anything online, LinkedIn has an algorithm of its own, the more you interact with other people's content, the more likely you are to appear in theirs.
5. Take a skills assessment, it enables you to display a verified skills badge on your profile and can exemplify what some of your strengths are.
6. Remove old experience from your profile that doesn't closely relate to your current role. You used to be a waitress? Great! But that probably isn't relevant if you're a graphic designer now. It's not misleading to remove a part time job from your page that you worked 10 years ago. Your profile should exemplify your most recent and relevant skills and accomplishments, not look like you copied and pasted your resume.
7. Endorse others for their skills and accomplishments. Endorsing your connections' skills is a way to recognize any professional abilities that you've seen them demonstrate. Supporting your colleagues in this way can also help you to maintain strong connections with the people in your network.