LinkedIn is a great social networking site which is geared more toward professionals and business. Their design has changed and is nicer. You can now neaten up your profile. This is a good idea because perspective employers might check you out on LinkedIn before hiring. Some do this. It also lets you connect with coworkers.
Key Takeaways:
- Details about your ancient professional history draw attention away from your most recent and relevant experiences. So, allow your past two roles to sell you and boil anything seven to 10 years in the past down to the essentials.
- Your skills section is a keyword oasis, which can make loading it with the maximum allowed 50 skills pretty tempting. But it’ll backfire, as in many cases, handfuls of them go unendorsed altogether.
- Other possible distractions: Certifications that have expired, projects that fizzled, and publications with URLs that are no longer valid (check these twice!).
“Look carefully at what you’ve listed here and identify which items you’d want someone to be sure to see, and those you’d be okay with them forgetting.”
