But what really catches a recruiter’s eye when they’re scrolling through your profile?
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
This Is What Recruiters Look For On Your LinkedIn Profile
But what really catches a recruiter’s eye when they’re scrolling through your profile?
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I thought this article was very insightful. I have often wondered if LinkedIn was something that professionals, particularly people who hire, still use. I was under the impression that is was a method of searching only used by few people. I have an account but frankly I just created one for the sake of having one. I never thought it would advance my career in anyway. This article made me realize that there are actually multiple things I'm doing wrong on LinkedIn. After reading this article, I will definitely want to go back and redo my profile like updating my photo, "who I know" and then start being more specific in the jobs that I put in my history. I am happily surprised this is a tool used by many people in the industry. Hopefully will a more robust profile and updated information, I will be able to make more connections through this avenue of media.
Even though my sister is a software engineer at LinkedIn, I have never been a huge fan of the platform. I rarely use it, I don’t fully understand all of its features, and I find it a slight hassle to update it. I’m not sure how important my profile is with regards to finding a technical internship, but I don’t believe I’ve suffered job-wise because of my poor LinkedIn profile. However, this article makes me wonder if I should be giving my online profile a little more love. My profile picture is just a selfie, nothing formal, which falls into one of the things I should not be doing as mentioned by the article. I also did not know about the “Open Candidates” feature; if I have it open, I should close it as soon as possible. I wish the article taught me how, but a quick Google search ought to do it instead. According to the points made in this article, my incomplete profile and lack of a professional photo, among other things, has almost definitely disqualified me from the (nonexistent) “Most Effective LinkedIn Article” award; I will be sure to take steps to correct this in the future, thanks to this article.
So I’m no authority on linkedin because I have a blank profile that my grandpa tried to friend me on once but I don’t see the point. If it were a resume replacement I might understand its necessity but to me it just seems like facebook without the drunk photos and fake news. The only time I really used linkedin was to online stalk my college interviewers to find a photo of their face.
These tips apply to resumes as well for the most part so the article wasn’t a waste but inside the article it mentions discrepancies between resumes and linkedins as a problem. If it’s just a copy of your resume exactly what does it do?
ALSO, I completely object to looking at some bullshit friends list as a gauge of someones hire-ability. From my experience, anyone on facebook with a bunch of friends has a bunch of shallow, meaningless, fake friends that they’ve maybe talked to once while the people who keep their list small have meaningful compelling relationships that aren’t based on statistics.
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