How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition

Source: How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition

SOURCE: Harvard Business Review

Summary

A tailored LinkedIn profile is important when trying to change careers. This HBR piece provides a number of invauable tips on how to do so, including the use of an eyecatching headline, telling a compelling story with your summary, advantageously customizing each position in the experience section, adding relevant recommendations, and using images and media samples that draw attention to impressive accomplishments.

Excerpt

“We all know the power of LinkedIn for job hunting and networking. But how do we use it to help change careers—to make sure we’re found by the right recruiters, hiring managers, colleagues—not ones from our past, but from our future careers?”

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