How to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Stand Out

a How to Make Your LinkedIn Pro몭le Stand Out

by Brian Freeman | Nov 7, 2022 | Brian Freeman Australia, Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

LinkedIn is a powerful networking tool that can help you connect with potential employers, colleagues, and business partners. If you want to make the most of this platform, it’s important to create a pro몭le that stands out from the competition. In this blog post, we will discuss ways to create an exceptional LinkedIn pro몭le!

1. A Catchy Headline Your LinkedIn pro몭le headline is the 몭rst thing other users see when visiting your pro몭le. Your headline should pique their interest, compelling them to click through to learn more about you. To stand out in this way, it’s important that you demonstrate meaningful accomplishment in an easily digestible format.

2. A Professional Photo You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it again: 몭rst impressions matter. In fact, 94% of hiring managers 몭nd employee photographs helpful when evaluating applicants – so don’t be one of the 6% who leave this section blank. It’s best to go with a simple head shot in which you wear business attire and smile naturally.

3. Highlight Your Skills and Experience Employers and recruiters spend an average of 6 seconds on each pro몭le before deciding whether or not to proceed. To maximize the impact your pro몭le makes within that short time-frame, highlight your skills and experience with descriptive keywords.

4. Utilize the “Additional Information” Section LinkedIn’s “Additional Information” section can be used to list your education, awards, and honors, languages are spoken, and even your website URL (if you have one).

However, there is another option available: using this section to create a separate miniresume that acts as a supplement to your main pro몭le. This is where you can list all of the positions you’ve held, the dates during which you were employed, and your role/responsibilities for each position.

5. Make Your Pro몭le Public If you have not yet activated your account, do so now. This will ensure that your pro몭le is visible to anyone browsing LinkedIn, not just those who have your email address.

Conclusion A properly optimized LinkedIn pro몭le can help you stand out from the competition and highlight your strengths as a candidate. With that said, it’s important to note that just having a pro몭le is not enough: if hiring managers don’t know how to 몭nd you, your LinkedIn presence will be useless! If you want to maximize your exposure on this platform, we recommend joining industry-speci몭c LinkedIn groups, sharing relevant content with your connections, and reaching out to in몭uential people in your 몭eld of expertise.

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