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3 quick tips for making the most of your LinkedIn profile:
If you know a bigger, better or plain different way of maximising your LinkedIn profile, I’d love to know. Why not leave a comment with your own top tips, post a blog response or even better again, upload your own video.
This video was first posted on Andrew Bell’s Watercooler: Tips, Tricks and Networking for Translators – thanks for the inspiration Andrew.
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Very helpful Sarah. I didn’t know about any of these 3 features and I have applied them to my profile.
Great tips Sarah! Thanks, I’m going to use them as soon as I can to customise my linkedin site more effectively.
I didn’t know about a couple of those tips–thanks. I guess I’m hesitant to make my profile public because I don’t want the world to know where I’ve worked, but I still want to let people I know professionally to know my work experience. Are you ever concerned that “weirdos” will bother you after you’ve exposed yourself online?
Unrelated: has your accent changed after living in Australia? I should do a blog post on this
Thank you for the comments, everyone. It’s very useful for me to know what people find interesting and/or new.
@mj – I guess weirdos could cover a broad spectrum of people (I might even have such tendencies myself!), but if you mean getting harassed because I let people see where I’ve worked, then no, I never worry about it. I don’t believe that revealing where I’ve worked will cause a problem, either realistically or in all likelihood. But then I’ve never worked anywhere especially controversial / exciting. I have heard tale of people using generic descriptions instead of company names in LinkedIn for client confidentiality reasons, maybe that would work for you (e.g. “International software manufacturer”, “National education charity”, etc). I definitely don’t feel “exposed” either – there’s a lot of information about me online, but it’s all stuff I’ve thought about and chosen to make available gradually over many years. I’m comfortable about it or it wouldn’t be up there, and I can confidently say that there’s a LOT more about me that never makes it online
My accent has changed a bit since I moved here last year, but not much. Why, what are you comparing it to?!
By “weirdo” I mean people who like to harass people online. I’m sure eventually I’ll post my stuff publicly–I even know people who post their phone numbers, but then again, it’s probably a good idea because a business website is no longer impersonal. But of course the downside is that people know your phone number, but no one I’ve known has been bothered by anyone. It just seems like good business.
I’m not comparing your accent to anything–I’m always curious how people’s accents change when they change countries or regions (like Americans raised in the north who move to the south and end up with a twang).