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LinkedIn Tricks To Getting Your Profile Found
LinkedIn is a great social networking sites for professionals looking to connect. As is the case with other top social networking
sites, LinkedIn is always looking to improve itself. While other sites seek cosmetic changes to their look, LinkedIn has focused on
functional changes.
LinkedIn has made to updates recently, and if you follow
these LinkedIn tricks, then your profile will be found by others
easier than in the past.
The first improvement has to do with putting more emphasis on Skills and Expertise. This
update means you can now better showcase your areas of expertise to easily connect with people that
have similar skills or with companies looking for subject
matter experts.
The second one of the LinkedIn updates has to do with
recalculating profile completeness scores. The new calculation gives you more control of your score by
emphasizing things you have direct control over, like Skills, and putting less weight on areas you may have less control over, like
Recommendations.
According to the recent changes, here are some of the LinkedIn
tricks you should follow in order to achieve the completeness goal:
LinkedIn Tricks for Getting Your Profile
Found | Completeness
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1) Add a profile photo
Personalizing any social networking account is paramount and this
LinkedIn trick can be the difference between someone taking you
seriously or not.
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Having a profile picture makes the profile seven times more likely to be found by those searching for you. An empty profile photo is a sign of a lack
of attention to detail and fewer people will want to connect with
you.
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2) List all jobs and professions
Adding a minimum of two jobs makes finding your profile twelve times more likely than not listing
jobs and professions.
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3) Include a description of the jobs
Add descriptions for your jobs as these descriptions will go along way
to validating your skills. Some company names are so nondescript
that is you don’t add a description of the job, then the company name will
hold no value to networkers.
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4) Have 5 or more skills on the profile
The more skills listed, the more targeted the results of people with whom you will have something in
common and this is one of the more important LinkedIn tricks that will
help you get found.
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Sales skills is great, but if you are a business to business sales person
rather than a telemarketer, this type of information will help you connect
with the right type of people.
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5) Write a summary about yourself
This summary should answer the question of who you are and should attract the type of people that you
are seeking to network.
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6) Fill out their industry and postal code
Part of being found by other colleagues or employers is that they need to know where to find you. If someone has a job in Austin, Texas and is reading your profile, they’ll
want to know where you are located.
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Therefore, one of the LinkedIn tricks to being found is to let people know what industry you are in and where
in the world you are located.
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7) Have 50 or more connections
A connection does show some credibility on social networking sites.
Also, the more connections you have, the more likely people are to find you through your connections.
Therefore, go out and get at least 50 colleagues.
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Also, continue posting multiple times a week to show activity. One of the LinkedIn tricks to getting found is to be active. If someone goes to your site and you’ve never posted and only have 5 connections, they will
think that you don’t check your LinkedIn account and may not
bother sending you a message or connection request.
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LinkedIn Tricks Conclusion
Many of the above listed LinkedIn tips are pretty much common sense.
As is the case with any social networking site, the more effort you put into it, the more results that you
will get out of it.