Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible In 5 Steps (Infographic)
April 9th, 2013 by Lifestyle StaffMake Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible
Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible
Are you looking to make your LinkedIn profile more attractive to recruiters? Maybe you’re looking for a new challenge or even your very first job out of college. If you’re looking to stand out online, we have five useful tips to make your professional profile irresistible to hiring managers on LinkedIn below.
1. Keywords in your profile
Search engine optimization is a key element of your LinkedIn profile. Add specific keywords aligned with you skills to help highlight potential items employers might be searching for like ‘social media manager’ or ‘website designer.’ Also, scatter the important keywords organically throughout your profile.
(Refrain from using any adventurous overused terms like ninja, guru, maverick or superhero – as recruiters might not want to take you away from your crime fighting duties!)
2. What do you want to be seen as?
What’s your personal brand about? Are you an expert in social media marketing? Or a freelance writer? Make sure your headline and personal tag accurately depict who you are, as well as aligning your personal brand across your profile and resume.
3. Tell us your story
Everyone loves a good story, what’s yours? How did you get where you are today? Find a way to explain that concisely in a way that makes you look interesting and motivated. Do you have a plan for where you want to get to?
4. Use a professional profile photo
First impressions matter and your cover photo sends a strong message about who you are. Make sure you have a professional looking photo to compliment your profile. Avoid any casual circumstance pictures from a party, wedding or any other group shots for that matter. And the worst thing you can do is have no cover photo at all which screams you don’t care about your profile and professional appearance. And unless you really are a ninja or an actor that portrays some kind of super-hero, avoid any cosplay!
5. Use your personal profile link
While on your LinkedIn profile page, have you ever noticed the web address or URL has some strange characters and looks funny? For example my funny looking LinkedIn URL is:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=114891125&trk=tab_pro
Rookies make the mistake of sharing that weird URL, where instead, make sure to use your unique LinkedIn URL when sharing your profile, which includes your name. Everyone has a unique LinkedIn profile link, look for it under your profile photo like this:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielzeevi
Using this personal LinkedIn page helps strengthen your personal brand with prospective employers and shows you have some sense of what you’re doing online!
What else are you doing to spiffy up your LinkedIn profile?
Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible
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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible
The Banjo App Is The New Vision Of Social Discovery
March 14th, 2013 by Rod
What is the Banjo App?
Banjo is not new but more than likely new to you. It is a social discovery app that uses GPS data along with social network info to find nearby contacts/friends. You might ask why would I want to use this?
How Does the Banjo App Work?
Banjo populates info from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, FourSquare, Google+, and LinkedIn and keep you updated with your contacts/friends. It also provides a map view to locate any of your connections near and far, all in real-time. Banjo even notifies you of any nearby friends. The app seeks to replace your need to use the fore mentioned apps separately. Banjo is now 4 million users strong!
“Banjo is the fun way to explore what’s happening anywhere in the world right now.”
In time for the many live events, and friend meet-ups at SXSW, Banjo announced version 3.3 of their app. With this update, event location and content are synced to provide a more “real time” feed. Just because you’re not close to an event, it doesn’t mean that your feed won’t show it. It shows real-time information from all the social networks at the same time.
In case you didn’t make it out to SXSW this year, you can follow Divas and Dorks Publisher Christen Rochon or any other friends to give you a social feel of what you missed.
Social Media Networking Reaches Over 200 Million Users On LinkedIn
January 9th, 2013 by Christen
If you’re a business – savvy, social media user like we are, then you’re undoubtedly apart of the 200 Million + members announced by LinkedIn today.
The business-oriented social network had reported in its last earnings call on Nov. 1 that it topped 187 million members and had been growing at a rate of 10 million to 15 million users per quarter last year. Launched in 2003, LinkedIn passed 100 million members in 2011. The rapid growth has been linked to a rate of two people joining LinkedIn about every second – that’s 172,800 people joining each day! No wonder it’s accomplished such rapid growth.
LinkedIn’s network compares with 1 billion-plus for Facebook, more than 500 million for Twitter and more than 500 million for Google Plus.
Did you know that 74 million users are based in the U.S., 11 million are in the U.K., 7 million are in Canada, 18 million are in India and 11 million are based in Brazil? LinkedIn’s fastest-growing country is Turkey, followed by Colombia and Indonesia. Mobile growth is strongest in China, Brazil, Portugal, India and Italy, in that order.
Have you been putting off joining the rest of the world on LinkedIn? Check out these four reason, why you need to join the social networking site today!
1. To Provide the Google-verse with Positive Information About You - Your prospects, whether potential clients, employers, or partners, are already looking you up online to help them decide whether or not to do business with you.
2. To Improve Your Search Engine Optimization and Web Presence - An optimized LinkedIn profile can help connect you with prospects who didn’t know about you previously.
3. To Attract Prospects by Showing Them How You Can Benefit Them - Keep in mind that your LinkedIn profile should be less about you and more about what you can do for your prospects.
4. To Show That You Are a Professional - Your potential prospects will not only be judging your profile by its content but also by the way that content is presented.
Want to keep up with us on LinkedIn? Connect with Divas And Dorks on LinkedIn today!
Was Your LinkedIn Account Hacked? Find Out Here…
June 7th, 2012 by ChristenThere’s nothing more exciting than to wake up to front page news announcing a cyberattack that could include your private information among as many as 6.5 million users being exposed online. Worried that your LinkedIn password may be a part of the nearly 6.5 million compromised on Wednesday? Password management firm LastPass has released a secure tool to see if your password was among the stolen.
News first surfaced about the security breach after a Russian hacker said he stole 6,458,020 encrypted LinkedIn passwords and posted them online (without usernames) to prove his feat. The breach comes on the heels of news that LinkedIn’s iOS app potentially violates user privacy by sending detailed calendar entries to its servers.
LinkedIn confirmed that some passwords had become compromised and said it would contact affected users with details on how to change their password.
Although usernames associated with the passwords were not released, the passwords themselves will surely be used to help reverse-engineer other cryptography systems. We also expect to see these passwords added to dictionary lists of programs that attempt to break into various accounts.
In other words — if you’re a LinkedIn user, no matter how strong your password seemed — it’s a good idea to go ahead and change it.
