How to Make the Perfect LinkedIn Profile
Patricia Jacobs
- Leaders in Executive Recruitment - Taxation - Investments - Auditing - Finance - IT and Engineering Placements
How to Make the Perfect LinkedIn Profile
?LinkedIn profiles will go a long way. Your LinkedIn profile is a place for you to build your professional brand, showcase your achievements and skills, share content with other professionals, and connect with colleagues, business partners, and potential employers.
With more than 875 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is easily the largest professional network on the planet. As the largest professional network, LinkedIn is an opportunity to build your business reputation, broaden your professional network and help others know exactly who you are and what you do.
The LinkedIn profile page is the foundation for your personal branding. LinkedIn regularly add features to increase its capabilities as a personal marketing platform and give you new ways to signal your skills and motivations.
?So, what makes a profile stand out? How do you get more recommendations? What features can help you enhance your profile?
?-??????? Choose the right profile picture for LinkedIn and add a background photo which sets the context and shows a little more about what matters to you.
-??????? Make your headline more than just a job title.
-??????? Turn your summary into your story. This is your most personal piece of content marketing and it’s worth the effort.
-??????? Explain the main functions of each professional experience and focus on your successes.
-??????? Highlight higher level qualifications and accreditations under education.
-??????? List your relevant skills.
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-??????? Grow your network; this can be done by syncing your profile with your email address book.
-??????? Follow relevant influencers in your industry.
-??????? Request recommendations, these are personal testimonials written to illustrate the experience of working with you.
-??????? Showcase your passion for learning through LinkedIn Learning courses.
-??????? Share media and relevant content for your LinkedIn feed.
Once you’ve created and updated different sections of your profile, you can begin sharing your public profile with your wider network. If you’ve got a LinkedIn profile anyone can find it. That includes potential clients. Therefore, it needs to be as impressive as possible.
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