Is Your LinkedIn Profile Really as Good as You Think?
Timo Lampikoski
Career Uplift Coach ??Helping Jobhunters & Entrepreneurs Leverage LinkedIn to Achieve Their Career or Sales Goals??Favikon: #2 Career Coach in Finland??LinkedIn Expert & Profile Optimizer??Career Development Coaching
Did you know that as a job hunter, your LinkedIn Profile is more important asset than your resume or cover letter?
Did you know that you must have highly optimized Profile to turn it into a recruiter or client magnet and make a great first impression to recruiters or potential clients?
Alas, most Profiles are not highly optimized and lack magnetism.
Do YOU Suffer from Dunning-Kruger Effect??
The Dunning-Kruger effect is cognitive bias that causes an overestimation of capability. People suffering from it believe they are smarter and more capable than they are. For example, most drivers think that they are better than average drivers.?
How to overcome the effect?
Cherry (2022) encourages us to learn and practice. “Instead of assuming you know all there is to know about a subject, keep digging deeper. Once you gain greater knowledge of a topic, you will likely recognize how much there is still to learn. This can combat the tendency to assume you’re an expert, even if you're not.”
Your LinkedIn Profile is your online real estate. Everybody gets an online piece of land on LinkedIn and an equal opportunity to build a mansion on it. Related to Dunning-Krueger effect, many people think that their LinkedIn Profile is superior compared with the average Profile. Yet, most professionals have just built a shack.
Most of my clients seem to suffer from Dunning-Kruger effect. When I ask them: “What do you think about your Profile?”, they usually answer: “It’s quite good.”
Yet, in most cases, they have just an average Profile or even below when I start working with them. When discussing more with them, they tend to say that optimizing their Profile seems a daunting task.
Do you feel a bit overwhelmed about perfecting your Profile?
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Outcome of perfecting your Profile 10 minutes at a time:
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recruiters and your potential clients will find you on LinkedIn and
want to contact you!
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?Timo
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References
?Cherry, K. What Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? A cognitive bias that causes an overestimation of capability
Updated on November 08, 2022
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