How to Update Your LinkedIn Profile for 2017
The end of the year has arrived, faster than ever! You have changed in the last twelve months. You are a different person now than you were in January. This is the perfect time to update your LinkedIn profile. Take a few minutes to log into LinkedIn and visit the Edit Profile page, read your …
10 ways to make your LinkedIn profile stand out
Does your LinkedIn profile title just show your current job title and company, for example “Account Manager for Company XYZ” or “Marketing Manager for ABC Inc.”? If you really want to stand out, avoid this boring approach and instead play around with your title to make it more interesting. “Your title is the most ‘real …
LinkedIn Profile Views – How to Get More, Faster.
When it comes to attracting views to your LinkedIn Profile, firstly, it’s about having a fully optimized and interesting profile for people who come across it and secondly, it’s about performing multiple tasks frequently that will generate more traction and get more eyes on your presence on LinkedIn. It’s that “magnet effect” that will make …
Create a professional LinkedIn profile in 10 easy steps
In 2016, 64% of B2B social referrals to a website came directly from LinkedIn. Only 17% come from Facebook and 14% from Twitter. LinkedIn is your mini-website. This is the place where people will come to learn more about you and your business. Building long-term relationships with potential clients within LinkedIn will only be successful …
Can LinkedIn Learning Help You Train Your Employees?
A month after LinkedIn launched its e-learning platform in partnership with Lynda.com, companies say they are using courses to teach employees programming, writing and leadership skills. Image: LinkedIn LinkedIn’s e-learning platform launched a month ago, and several companies have indicated that they are encouraging employees to take advantage of the opportunity to learn new technology …
LinkedIn Doubles Education with LinkedIn Learning, Updates Desktop Site – TechCrunch
LinkedIn, the social network for the world of work which now has some 450 million members and is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for 26.2 billion pillars. The company has launched a new site called LinkedIn Learning, an ambitious e-learning portal adapted to individuals, but also to companies wishing to continue training …
LinkedIn is rolling out LinkedIn Learning for individuals and soon for businesses
LinkedIn Learning allows users to access online courses to hone their professional skills. LinkedIn on Thursday announced the availability of LinkedIn Learning, a product that capitalizes on the company’s 2015 acquisition of the online learning portal Lynda. The product, currently available for consumers and soon available for businesses, also illustrates how Microsoft’s massive acquisition of …
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7 easy ways to improve your LinkedIn profile
(Photo by Carl Court / Getty Images) What makes a good profile on LinkedIn? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique ideas. Response from Nelson Wang, founder of CEO Lifestyle, on Quora: Over the past 10 years, I have been recruited by companies like Google …
Need help in your job search? Here are LinkedIn profile tips for job seekers
It’s amazing that when it launched in 2003, LinkedIn garnered the attention of barely 20 new signups per day. But now you are visiting the site and you will be lost among tons of profiles, names, job titles and status updates. It’s easier to ignore your LinkedIn profile when you’re not looking for a job, …
Example of a LinkedIn profile well done… and badly done!
At a loss with social media? Our experts use real company publications to illustrate their best advice. The expert: Viveka von Rosen Author of LinkedIn Marketing: one hour per day Host of the most popular LinkedIn chat on Twitter linkintobusiness.com EFFECTIVE Click here to enlarge …
8 Quick Ways To Improve Your LinkedIn Profile When Looking For A Job
LinkedIn is a big part of job searching these days. Not only will potential employers check your profile after you apply, but many recruiters will find you through the site as well. With that in mind, it’s important to make the best use of your account. You could write a book (and someone probably did) …
How to add a “View my LinkedIn Profile” button to your Outlook email signature (plus Gmail and Mac Mail)
One of our most popular blog posts was about adding a “View my LinkedIn Profile” button to an email signature, but so long ago we thought it deserved an update. Just a couple of weeks ago, we released a stylish ‘View my business profile on LinkedIn’ button that you can read more about here and …
How to optimize your LinkedIn profile
LinkedIn has been an invaluable resource for me over the past 10+ years. I used it for: Connect with thousands of professionals. Obtain two million tonnes of depleted mussel shells in two months, whereas a supply department of nine people could not do so in three years. Identify potential suppliers of multifunction photocopiers / scanners …
Create and add an eBook to your LinkedIn profile
Having an eBook is a fantastic way to present yourself as a thought leader and subject matter expert in your field. LinkedIn is a great place to present the eBook to your network and potential buyers. But publishing an eBook can be a daunting task. There are many elements that go into creating an eBook, …
Is Your LinkedIn Profile Optimized For Success?
Everyone who has a LinkedIn account has probably completed their personal profile to the bare minimum, but it’s surprising how few people are making the most of its potential. Here’s a quick checklist to make sure yours is performing as well as it could. Profile picture I’ve seen quite a few bad profile photos on …
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Seven Easy Ways to Upgrade Your LinkedIn Profile
The new year will be here in a few short weeks. Whatever you think of your career in 2016, you’ll need a presentable and strong LinkedIn profile. Whether you’re planning to change jobs, build muscle at your current job, or plan to launch a new business next year, your online presence is important. Here are …
How to Make Your LinkedIn Profile POP!
Your LinkedIn profile gives you a fantastic opportunity to showcase your strengths to potential employers and other businesses. There are a number of tips and tricks you can use to make your LinkedIn profile stand out and give yourself the best chance of landing your next big job or contract. Let’s take a look at …
Creation of your LinkedIn profile in several languages
Listen to the recording of this blog post: Did you know that LinkedIn gives you the ability to present your LinkedIn profile in multiple languages? It’s a feature I’m dying to try out (on someone else of course as I’ve never mastered a language other than English), and frankly, I’m not fluent either. english. A …
Errors on my LinkedIn profile
Recruiters notice how you use your LinkedIn profile. Malloreigh / Flickr LinkedIn can make or break your chances of getting an interview – you probably already know that. But just like your CV, what you forget about your profile is just as important as what you keep there. As for the latter, we’ve given you …
8 tips to optimize your LinkedIn profile
Whether you are a salesperson, recruiter or job seeker, optimizing your LinkedIn profile is crucial to your professional success. Check out the tips below to help you fully optimize your LinkedIn profile and look like a pro. 1. Your name – Is your name the same on all the social networks you are on? If …
How to Create Your Custom LinkedIn Profile URL and How to Use It
If you have a LinkedIn profile – and I hope you do – you’ll want to let people know that. You can do this easily by sharing the website address (URL) of your LinkedIn profile. The only problem is that the URL LinkedIn assigns to your profile won’t look pretty. Until you create your custom …
How to create a great LinkedIn profile
B2B professionals around the world agree that LinkedIn is a great way to network with potential business partners. But many executives and sales professionals find themselves willing to network and interested in meeting new people (or even getting tons of views every week)… but not very convinced that their LinkedIn profiles showcase their strengths. When …
Optimize your LinkedIn profile in 10 steps
Do you have a LinkedIn profile that you think is not being used to its optimum capacity? Wondering how to improve it for your business or organization? LinkedIn is the # 1 corporate social network and it can be incredibly useful when you know how to take advantage of its features. It wasn’t that long …
9 Steps to Building a Powerful LinkedIn Profile
Two every second is the number of people joining LinkedIn as new members, many of whom hope to tap into the platform’s rich resource for industry contacts, new clients and partnership opportunities. This means that by the time you finish reading this article, you will have an average of 350 people and expect to compete …
Build your professional image with your LinkedIn profile
In the business environment, the image you convey as a professional is your most important asset in gaining a competitive advantage in your industry. Carefully building and communicating your image can help you close new business and grow your business. Once you’ve created it, your LinkedIn profile is the benchmark of your personal brand. Searching …
How I easily got 25% more views on my LinkedIn profile
A version of this message appeared on the HubSpot Marketing Blog. In this version, I redacted a tip that did not comply with LinkedIn’s User Agreement. To receive articles like the one below the day they are published, subscribe to the HubSpot blog here. Just because HubSpot values humility does not mean that we are …
People laugh at your LinkedIn profile
Dear LinkedIn member, People look at your LinkedIn profile, and they laugh at what you, in a public forum, have decided to present as your professional identity. Last week, five people (who chose to remain anonymous) scrolled through your hobbies and skills and burst out laughing at each one. When they went over your work …
Phrases to avoid on your LinkedIn profile
Your LinkedIn profile is often the first impression potential employers will have of you, and it could be the difference between being invited to a job interview and being ignored forever. To make sure you and your future employer get off to a good start, it’s important to avoid buzzwords like “strategic” that make it …
Use work examples to show off your accomplishments
Everyone now has a LinkedIn profile, so yours needs to stand out, and there’s an easy way to do it that a lot of people still don’t bother to do. These are called working samples. This is a relatively new feature in LinkedIn (especially if you’re one of those people who don’t check your profile …
LinkedIn profile picture errors
Flickr/San Sharma Before anyone reads a single word of your LinkedIn profile, they’ve already formed an opinion about you. That’s because the first thing recruiters see is your photo, and that can be the difference between someone clicking through to your profile or not. In a recent LinkedIn positionJames Caan, CEO of Hamilton Bradshaw Group, …
Easy ways to improve LinkedIn profile
Daniel Goodman / Business Insider If you’re like most job seekers, you probably use LinkedIn. As a thriving professional hub, you can stand out among potential employers, meet like-minded people, and showcase your experiences, talents and successes. Additionally, a professional looking LinkedIn profile can significantly strengthen your personal brand and position you as the winning …
Optimize LinkedIn profile Recruiters come to you
Business Intern LinkedIn makes twenty times more revenue per user than Facebook. Much of this is thanks to LinkedIn Recruiter, the $8,200 per year product for headhunters. As Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Piskorski explains in his new book, “A social strategy: how we profit from social media“is one of the things that sets LinkedIn …
5 quick ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile
Do you have a LinkedIn profile? If so, you’re in good company, with over 300 million users it’s the world’s largest social network for professionals and one of the fastest growing social media sites. joining giants like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Google + in terms of months active users. The professional use of social media …
11 Easy Ways To Boost Your LinkedIn Profile To All-Star Status
If you are not yet registered on LinkedIn, consider the following: this is the the largest professional network in the world in line with more than 467 million members in over 200 countries and territories (updated in 2016). In fact, Professionals are signing up at an incredible rate of over two new members per second. …
17 must-have features on your LinkedIn profile (infographic)
This story originally appeared on Daily PR Being active on LinkedIn can help you win new business, find job opportunities, or attract potential clients. But you only have a chance of doing this if your profile gives people a full set of information about you, including your contact details, examples of your work, or any …
21 Steps to Create an Awesome LinkedIn Profile
Attending a conference, networking event, or dinner often leads to “this” question. “So what are you doing?” Before, it was easy. You trotted out words like farmer, accountant, or even lawyer if you were brave. One word was enough. Today it can be a little more complicated. Today we have careers, businesses and personal work …
How do I create a custom URL for a LinkedIn company page?
One of the frequently asked questions is: How do I create a custom URL for my LinkedIn business page? Here are some options: If your business name is one word, remove everything behind “company /” in the default URL, and add your company name. Example: REMARK: This isn’t a permanent URL change, but a custom …
Hide your LinkedIn profile from Google
Linkedin is the first social network for professionals. However, creating a profile has some drawbacks. Every job you have may not be great and you could run the risk of attracting a bad reference. Fortunately, Linkedin has an option to hide your profile from search engines. As a warning, it could take several weeks for …
8 Steps to Building a Powerful LinkedIn Profile
PA The latest survey data indicate 94% of recruiters today use social media in their recruitment efforts. And it’s at all levels for short-term cooks to financial analysts. And yet, people are puzzled, or at least skeptical, as to why tools like LinkedIn are such a game-changer. Think of it like this: previously, only the …
4 Headline Hacks to Create an Irresistible LinkedIn Profile
If you were to Google yourself right now, what would you find? Your LinkedIn profile is probably one of the first search results you’ll see. If the idea that new clients, associates or recruiters find your profile makes you cringeit’s time for some TLC. Here’s the good news: it’s easy to stand out from the …
The 5 essential elements of an optimized and useful LinkedIn profile
If you’re in business, chances are you’re on LinkedIn, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in May 2013 and now has more than 225 members worldwide. Recognized as the most “professional” of social media sites, LinkedIn is considered an essential place to connect with others in business. And while it’s likely you already have a LinkedIn …
Add a URL link to your Linkedin profile
Today I came across this very nifty tool to help you improve your Linkedin profile. On your Linkedin profile, you can add a link and link it to your current summary, your current position or a past position. This is really a cool feature that you should incorporate into your profile. I added links to …
5 Ways to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible
by @NandoRecruit 1. Keywords in your profile Search engine optimization is key on LinkedIn; if I can’t find you, I can’t hire you. Your profile on LinkedIn should be a snapshot of your journey, which is why it’s called your Linkedin profile, not Linkedin novella. And those are the keywords that will get you in …
LinkedIn Profile: 6 Common Mistakes Professionals Make
This article was originally published on Trak.in LinkedIn is the most popular network among professionals. However, we continue to make common mistakes on our LinkedIn profile and then blame the network. This article discusses six common mistakes along with tips that will help you improve your LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn, one of the largest professional networks …
Should you include a photo on your LinkedIn profile?
There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you should include a photo of yourself on your LinkedIn profile. Most of us don’t include them in the resumes we send out, and recruiters scan online profiles as if they were scanning resumes. If you include a photo, you are allowing yourself to be discriminated …
Add downloadable files to your LinkedIn profile
If you are looking for a job, LinkedIn is useful for finding jobs, developing your professional network and posting your CV in the hope of being discovered. Completing all of your LinkedIn profile items will give you an edge, but there’s also an additional (and little-known) feature to enable. While LinkedIn allows recruiters to upload …
How to Delete a LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Photo by a Flickr user Iantzilla LinkedIn is like Hotel California: you can check in anytime, but you can never leave. Some time ago, I decided to close my LinkedIn account. And it was like pulling teeth. I tried to do it twice through their website with no results. Then I …
LinkedIn launches URL shortener and improves content sharing options – TechCrunch
Professional social network LinkedIn has steadily expanded its presence outside of its platform through integrations with Twitter and Microsoft Outlook and by opening up the platform’s API. And since LinkedIn takes its data and status updates from users outside the network, the company has reinforced its sharing and privacy options for users. And LinkedIn is …