This document provides tips for completing your LinkedIn profile. It emphasizes making connections on LinkedIn and using your profile to showcase your experience and expertise. A complete profile includes listing your name, photo, contact details, a professional headline, detailed experiences, education history, skills, recommendations, status updates, connections, groups, certifications, and customized URLs. The document stresses that an incomplete profile hurts your personal brand and causes you to miss opportunities. It notes that complete profiles are more likely to get job opportunities and be found on LinkedIn. It provides quick tips like focusing the summary on accomplishments, including at least two previous jobs, adding maximum 50 skills, and using a professional photo.
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2. Concept of LinkedIn
To make connections and engage with those
connections in a meaningful way.
Focuses on who you are, what you do, your industry
experience and expertise.
Acts as a recruitment network on the web.
3. Completeness of profile
List your full name
Display your Photograph
Your Contact Details
Headline professional summary to brand yourself
properly
Complete Experiences, Keyword-Rich
Education- School and college
Organizations, Honors & Awards
Recommendation to display your realness
4. Completeness of profile
Proper status update
Add Skills & Expertise [Minimum 3, Maximum 50]
Customizing your web links and URLs
Professional Summary to introduce yourself
Acquire some connections [At least 50 connections]
Make required changes in Contact settings to know
the world about your presence on the site.
Groups and applications
Volunteering Experience
Certifications
5. Why have Complete LinkedIn
Profile
You are hurting your personal brand without a LinkedIn
profile.
You are missing out good job opportunities and you are not
even aware of it.
Incorrect or Outdated information dampens prospects
Stats
Users with complete LinkedIn Profiles are 40 times more
likely to get job opportunities
Profiles with photos are 7 times more likely to be found on
LinkedIn
7. Quick Tips for Correct completion
In summary section, stress on accomplishments and
not describe day-to-day activities
Give at least two previous work experience
details, either give previous job details or split current
job details based on the positions held.
Fill as many skills as possible [Maximum 50]
Another obvious tip Photo should be professional
with only the face visible