Once I subscribed, it pops up a video on "Rock Your LinkedIn Profile" - which I believe it wants to help me get started and since I have time, I watched the video from the beginning till the end and my opinion, I think that is a great video for LinkedIn newbies as well as people who has been on LinkedIn since forever but they want to change the status quo of their LinkedIn profile.
Since it's a great video, I think I should share some of the tips from the video for you who google, "How to get started my LinkedIn profile".
1. Tell a little bit about you in About section - share a summary of your professional and a little bit of personal journey. Do it like you tell a story about yourself. If you don't know how to start, let's start with how would you introduce yourself during introduction session.
2. Make sure to always update your latest work experience and instead of sharing what you do cos everybody can do the same things that you do, share your contribution and what you achieved instead cos that what makes you different.
3. Change your Headline from default to something that you want to be known of. You can focus on what industry you are in, what do you do/your role and what/how you do make the difference. For me, I skip the industry part and focus more what do I do and still thinking about my unique skill that makes me special in what I do.
4. Don't forget to add in your Skills, it can be as basic as having skills in Microsoft Office and you can get your colleagues to endorsed it.
5. Get recommendation from colleagues, managers, senior leaders or your customers/clients to build your credibility. Instead of using the LinkedIn template to get the recommendation, customise the recommendation request so that you can get the other person to focus on the things that you want them to highlight. For example, how your contribution in a Project A help with its success.
6. If you do volunteer work, why don't you add this information in. I find this interesting because I always thought volunteer work is private matter, but, for you who have employment gap, this is something that you can share with the Hiring Manager how do you use your time during the gaps.
7. Don't update your profile all at once because you'll feel overwhelmed and sometimes you don't know where to start. So, why don't you start with one section and then work on another section on the next day or next week.
These are some that I learn from the video, and I think you'll learn more by watching it, so here you go the link to the video.
Till then.
