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Published:
April 21, 2020

LinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies

Overview

Give your LinkedIn profile the makeover it deserves—and get the attention you deserve 

Look at your profile: you know it could be a little better. Too many LinkedIn users are just posting a basic resume and hoping for the offers to come flooding in, missing out on the incredible opportunity the platform offers to properly showcase their talents, products, and services to 610 million professionals in over 200 countries. LinkedIn is way more than a resume tool—to display your professional past and present—it’s also your career future and personal brand. Used to its fullest extent, it helps you demonstrate the unique value and culture you provide, the skills and aspirations that make you different, to get the outcomes you truly want. But how’s it done?

Profile branding expert Donna Serdula pioneered the concept of LinkedIn Profile Optimization and through her Website, LinkedIn-Makever.com, has helped over 5000 professionals use LinkedIn to achieve increased success. In this guide she applies that experience to help you use all of LinkedIn’s capabilities to meet your goals, whether they be job search, reputation management, or sales—including how to:

  • Create a memorable, successful profile
  • Optimize personal keywords
  • Showcase your experience, accomplishments, and unique value
  • Use LinkedIn features to grow your network and more

You never get a second chance to make a first impression—and people are Googling you right now: Get a fresh online look and get results!  

 

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About The Author

Donna Serdula is the leading authority on LinkedIn profile optimization. Her company, Vision Board Media, provides branding services to individual and corporate clients. She is also an in-demand speaker. She can be found online at www.LinkedIn-Makeover.com and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/todonna.

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Your LinkedIn profile is more than just your resume! It’s your digital introduction and first impression to the world. Make sure that first impression is a good one by optimizing your profile. This handy Cheat Sheet offers quick references to tools and tips to help make optimizing your profile efforts easier.5 Tips to a Job Search Optimized ProfileWhen you are in the midst of a job search, it’s imperative your LinkedIn profile showcases you in the right light and makes a hiring manager, recruiter, or human resources professional want to reach out to learn more about you!

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LinkedIn search is a little peculiar. When you search by a person’s name in the LinkedIn search bar, it doesn’t matter if the person is in your network or not; his or her profile (provided there is one) appears in search results.But as you know, people don’t always search LinkedIn by name. When typical users search by keyword, the results that appear are from profiles that are in their LinkedIn networks — not the entire LinkedIn user database.
They are almost synonymous: LinkedIn and job search. It’s a shame, really. Often, connotation is what stops a lot of people from joining and interacting on this professional network. When you use LinkedIn for branding, reputation management, thought leadership, and business intelligence, a funny side effect happens.
Your LinkedIn profile is more than just your resume! It’s your digital introduction and first impression to the world. Make sure that first impression is a good one by optimizing your profile. This handy Cheat Sheet offers quick references to tools and tips to help make optimizing your profile efforts easier.5 Tips to a Job Search Optimized ProfileWhen you are in the midst of a job search, it’s imperative your LinkedIn profile showcases you in the right light and makes a hiring manager, recruiter, or human resources professional want to reach out to learn more about you!
LinkedIn is one of the few social networking sites where you can remain quite passive and still experience amazing success. Imagine getting on Facebook or Twitter and doing absolutely nothing — nothing would happen.But on LinkedIn, simply by having an optimized profile infused with your keywords, people find you.
Whether you are working on your LinkedIn profile or just doing some good ol’ fashioned job research, coming up with the right keywords is challenging. The good news is that there are tools designed to assist you in finding the right keywords. Check out the following tools and strategies to find keywords for your LinkedIn profile.
Now that you’ve decided to optimize your LinkedIn profile, let’s make sure you didn’t miss any sections or make any mistakes. Your public LinkedIn profile is your online reputation and digital face to the world. ©Shutterstock/Monkey Business ImagesYour LinkedIn profile must be perfect, as this is how people see and judge you.
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