Rock Your LinkedIn Profile

No. We recommend that you upload a photo that represents the unique professional that is you! For some, that may be a professional headshot, for others it may be a picture snapped on a camera or iPhone. Just make sure it’s high res, features just you and has good lighting. Use our LinkedIn photo filters to add that extra polish!

We recommend that you list your experience in paragraph format because your LinkedIn profile should be a digital portfolio of your work that tells your story as a professional. LinkedIn isn’t a data dump of your resume, so it shouldn’t look like a resume.

As a LinkedIn best practice, we always recommend writing your profile in the first-person narrative. It’s more authentic and genuine when it comes from you. And we want LinkedIn to be a place where you can bring your authentic self and build your professional community.

It’s a quick hit way to showcase the skills you have and helps recruiters find you. It’s also an excellent way for a third party to validate the skills you say you have. Did you know that if you list at least 5 skills on your profile, you’re more likely to appear in recruiter searches?

Yes! You are in full control as a member on LinkedIn. You can control which skills get shown on your profile by accepting or rejecting skills/endorsements. You can also control the order your skills and endorsements appear on LinkedIn.

At LinkedIn, members come first and as such we have a member blocking feature. If people you don’t know are endorsing you for skills you don’t have, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, block them and this will report it to our internal Security Teams. That person won’t have the ability to reach out to you again.

Generally, we recommend quality of connections versus quantity of connections. You should only connect with people that you know. Since LinkedIn helps you to build your professional community, think about whether or not you want that person added to your community.

In addition, as a best practice, we always recommend that you personalize your connection requests by telling the other person how you met them and why you want to connect. This helps provide context and create community.

For people you don’t know well enough to add to your network, we recommend you have them follow you. That way they can stay in the loop with your activity on LinkedIn and any published posts or content you create on the platform.

For people you know and want to add to your professional community, send a connection request.