In a digital world where people decide whether to stay on a page in less than 2 seconds, it is essential to make a great First Impression on your Linkedin profile : this article provides 3 simple tricks that you may not have considered yet.
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1. Open or Armored Profile?
There is a part of your Linkedin profile that is public and therefore accessible to anyone (even those who are not logged in) from Google searches or direct links: you can manage the display methods of your public profile.
If your goal is to be as visible as possible, log in and from your profile page go to the “ manage public profile ” section and set “ make your profile visible to everyone ” by checking all the various items image, summary, websites, etc.
If you want to disappear from Linkedin set “ Make cambodia telegram phone number list public profile visible to no one ” or close the account. Remember that it is necessary to display your entire last name to have a public profile.
2. Photo suitable for Linkedin?
If you are looking for new opportunities from the most work-related social network, then post a photo that is suitable for this specific medium: the photo is your most important business card both for those who visit your profile or simply see the preview (thumbnail) when you ask for a connection.
Here are my tips on what works best:
Close-up with clearly visible face (70% of total available space)
Open attitude (body language matters a lot for HR experts) and professional (without appearing like a “mega manager”)
Updated and good quality photo , you must be alone
Contextualized, neutral or professional background (without it becoming predominant)
If you really don't want to adhere to the canons and do creative work, a funny caricature photo is also fine.
Avoid profiles with "out of place" photos such as logos instead of the face (then make a company page!), profiles without photos, photos with Blues Brothers style sunglasses, half-length portraits taken from afar in contexts not suitable for the medium, photos with a shadowed face taken from subway passport photos, burkas, etc.
Below you will find a mini gallery of worst practices in Linkedin photos. Linkedin and Facebook are 2 very different contexts that we use with very different objectives: a classic mistake (that I have made for years) is to put on Linkedin the same photo that I had on Facebook with the Spritz in my hand.
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3. Clear and explanatory summary?
Your professional summary (Headline or Summary) is the summary that everyone sees and must explain in 2 seconds what you do and how to contact you.
If the user arrives from search engines, they will see your name in the title and the headline below (before the description instead of the URL, as shown in the example below). In fact, the headline is the only factor that you can decide.
