What's on your LinkedIn profile?

SideWinder · 21 Sep 2022 at 13:41

I am in the final stages of a major CV update and I was wondering about my LinkedIn profile.

It is quite under used and just has titles, dates of joining and leaving etc.

After a bit of research, it appears that a CV is different to LinkedIn and that kinda makes sense as they have different purposes.

What is on yours? Did you re-write everything for LinkedIn or copy and paste specific parts from your CV?

I have seen on Fiver you can even hire someone to sort your LinkedIn profile for you...kinda tempting as I hate this kinda thing.

chroniclard · 21 Sep 2022 at 13:46

Barely use it, still get endless recruiters contacting, it has a very brief job history and some key skills.

I dont find it much use.

SideWinder · 21 Sep 2022 at 13:56

chroniclard said:
Barely use it, still get endless recruiters contacting, it has a very brief job history and some key skills.

I dont find it much use.

Where are the keys skills? Within each role? Can you provide a couple of examples?

Ayahuasca · 21 Sep 2022 at 14:01

Nothing as it's currently hibernating. It's the most cringey social media platform of the lot.

chroniclard · 21 Sep 2022 at 14:54

SideWinder said:
Where are the keys skills? Within each role? Can you provide a couple of examples?

Easier for me being a developer as it's just things like "Angular", "C#", "SQL Server" etc etc

dirtychinchilla · 21 Sep 2022 at 15:27

Ayahuasca said:
Nothing as it's currently hibernating. It's the most cringey social media platform of the lot.

It really is. I think of it as a cesspit.

SideWinder · 21 Sep 2022 at 15:37

dirtychinchilla said:
It really is. I think of it as a cesspit.

Def not denying this...its so cringe.

And certainly don't want my profile to be like that. :eek:

Mujja · 21 Sep 2022 at 15:44

SideWinder said:
I am in the final stages of a major CV update and I was wondering about my LinkedIn profile.

It is quite under used and just has titles, dates of joining and leaving etc.

Mine is the same, Organisation, Title and Date. Sometimes think I should add more to make it look like a CV, but I already have too many messages from recruiters and don't want to encourage more

However, for my current role a recruiter did contact me through LinkedIn and convinced me to apply. All my other roles over the last 25+ years have been through Jobserve, except one.

labbby · 21 Sep 2022 at 15:50

On mine ? Lie after lie after lie.

throwaway4372 · 21 Sep 2022 at 15:57

I feel like I'm pretty hot on LinkedIn after a lot of recent job-hunting.

My LI tips:
- Write a thorough "About" section, this helps you appear in search results - this is very important, include a lot of keywords, try out different stuff if you aren't getting enough attention.
- Write a clear "Headline", this gets you clicked on from search results - e.g. job title - skills - location
- Pay for premium membership, this gets you ranked higher in search results, and recruiters know you're serious
- Have a picture
- Each job should have: company (linked up properly so their logo appears and their name is clickable), start date, end date, (so your length of employment shows up), job title (don't lie, but you can adjust it a little to better reflect what you did), a 1 sentence summary about the company, bullet point list of what you were responsible for / worked on / achieved, skills used in the job (links up to the Skills section, order your skills alphabetically)
- Each education should have: basically the same as above

Mine is basically the same content as my CV so I can copy/paste it rather than maintaining two sets of info. The CV contains contact info in addition. References in a separate document available only on request. Use a dedicated email address for your CV - expect to be deleting that mailbox once you have found employment.

Then you are ready to use the "Open to..." feature. If you've got it all set up right, you'll get majorly harassed by recruiters. They'll spam your LI inbox to get your CV, then your CV personal information is fair game and you'll get messages, emails, texts, calls from people you never gave your info to. Note that this problem is next level extreme if you use the Reed jobs website in addition to LI.

Your problem then is choosing who to bother speaking to, spotting patterns in what they say to weed out who really has a job and who's just a chancer. GL.

SideWinder · 21 Sep 2022 at 16:00

Brill thank you!

Very useful.

malachi · 21 Sep 2022 at 16:40

I always keep mine upto date. Helped me land my last few jobs.

HangTime · 23 Sep 2022 at 01:13

Mine is pretty similar to my CV but slightly shorter, I don't think I've put some of my mickey mouse qualifications on there for example. I think of it as being like a public, slightly interactive CV (links to certs etc).
Because it's searchable I'd say it's important to put more than just job titles and dates on there, assuming you want to show up in searches of course.