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Your Profile Is Your Resume

March 9, 2009 By Randy Schrum View Comments

Success Tip: Your Linkedin Profile is your business resume.

If you are on Linkedin to find potential employment be sure to remember your profile is your resume…

5 Tips to a great Linkedin Resume
►In your summary say why your on Linkedin.
►Be keyword target specific in your profile, summary, and specialities.
►Be sure to secure recommendations, this shows your credibility among peers.
►Be sure to answers questions, this helps show your expertise…
►Copy and Paste your current resume, as long as its a good one into your Linkedin Profile, but again be sure to make it keyword rich so employers and recruiters searching for someone of your experience can find you.

Here are three bonus resources I would like to mention:

~ Get your free copy of the Fast Start Guide to Linkedin Success: Grab it here
~ Join me on the Linked Strategies Group on Linkedin to access more tips. Join Here
~ Join us for one of our “Complimentary” Linkedin Power User Webinars: Count Me In

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About Randy Schrum
Randy Schrum is the Executive Vice President of Sales for DemingHill, a Leading Corporate Social Media Consulting & Marketing Firm. DemingHill is a consortium of the top leaders in each of the core disciplines of Social Media for Corporate Business. Inclusive of Sales, Lead Generation, BD, Marketing, PM, Customer Service and more. Mr. Schrum is also Founder of RandySchrum.com & MyCorporateMedia.com, which features Randy’s Sales & Business thoughts along with special blog contributors. Many Business Executives, Owners, and Entrepreneurs have come to enjoy Randy’s practical thoughts & business insights. Additionally, Mr. Schrum is considered one of the leading authorities on LinkedIn & Twitter as co-manager of the #1 LinkedIn & Twitter Strategies group’s. He is the author of Twitter Strategies, which teaches businesses and Twitter users how to build on their business and professional goals using twitter.

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  • Gopi Krishna Menon
    Thank you Randy. Your tips were really useful to me in shaping in profile. Looking forward for more useful stuffs from you in the future.
  • John Nematalla
    Randy, many thanks for this powerful, yet smple information. We tend to look to close and miss the potential power of the tool, how effectively or otherwise we represent ourselves and the potential for missed opportunities.

    Have a great day.

    John Nematalla
  • Good advice Randy. Thanks for the tips on fine tuning my profile page.

    Regards.

    Rick Mueller
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