Something to Put in Your LinkedIn Summary

Every Good LinkedIner

Any good LinkedIner will of course have recommendations from people they have worked for. Those recommendations will hopefully be written form the viewpoint of what was produced.

However, if you have lots of jobs and recommendations the best stuff may not get read by the viewer of your profile, especially if your profile is significant.

Put what you produced in your LinkedIn Summary

It is my recommendation that you put and example of something you produced in your LinkedIn summary. In other words take one of your best accomplishments and describe exactly what it is that you produced in that situation.

Put this description near the top of the LinkedIn summary so that someone that reads the summary has a good chance of reading this description. If you have a matching recommendation you could also note that so the reader can go look at that specific recommendation.

By the way this is a good idea in general. If in your LinkedIn summary you are talking about something you have done and you have a recommendation you can always refer people to that in your profile.

Summary

Remember that the top of the LinkedIn summary is most likely to at least be scanned by visitors – if you can get some of your best stuff in that first couple of paragraphs, you have a chance of sucking in the reader to do more investigation. In combination with the promise of more info this can be powerful in marketing yourself.

One final point on this, you may find it valuable to stand this information off with a subtitle that is highlight by some widget Character. The pipe “|” works good, and I also like the triangles “?” as they really make things stand out. The secret of online business networking is visibility and this adds to the visibility of your skills.

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