These Are The Four Things That Should Not Be In Your LinkedIn Profile

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LinkedIn has become very famous and more and more people are resorting to this media platform to look for their dream jobs. Similarly, more and more, people are forming their first impression of you from the results of a web search on your name. When people are evaluating you in a professional capacity, they often go directly to your LinkedIn profile. 

It is, therefore, important to know what should go in the LinkedIn profile and what should not. 

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Here are some tips for you, to start with.

Wrong or irrelevant endorsements

Delete endorsements for the skills that you don’t want to be known for; they just end up confusing your prospective recruiters. Personal branding is about being known for SOMEthing, not 10,000 things. 

Make a list of all skills that are relevant to who you are and where you’re going without looking at your LinkedIn profile. Then, take a look at the skills for which you have been endorsed. Is there a strong correlation? And make sure your top three skills perfectly reflect how you want to be known. Those are the ones that show up prominently when someone is looking at your profile. Viewers need to click “view more” to see the rest of your skills.

Experiences that distracts from your brand aspirations

Remove all those information from the profile that is misleading – like the ones from your past job experiences but now that you’ve moved beyond them they don’t hold much importance now. 

However, it’s important to show progression in your career, so you may want to group roles from the past under one category like My Proving Ground or Internships and Early Career Experience.

Low-quality images

Any images you added to your profile in the summary or experience sections need to be high-quality and appropriately cropped. Nothing says “lack of attention to detail” like blurry, badly cropped, trite, or unflattering images. Of course, this is most important when it comes to your headshot. It is advisable to invest in a professionally photographed headshot that projects you in the most positive and powerful light. And avoid full body shots. Let viewers see your face.

Third-person writing

It’s much more transparent and direct to write in the first person than to pretend that your publicist wrote your content. When you write in the first person, you create a conversation between you and the reader, and that helps you establish a more authentic relationship with them. 

Many have stopped using the third person in the profile but not everyone is there yet. It’s time for you take the third person out of your profile and get comfortable with me, myself, and I.

We hope that these tips will help you make your LinkedIn profile more attractive to your prospective employers. 

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