YOUR BEST PROFILE PICTURE #1
LinkedIn is now a standard in recruitment, and even in business in general. As a recruiter, I systematically Google my contact. Not only the job seekers, but employer and whatever business relationship!
The LinkedIn profile tells longer than you imagine.
What's behind?
For someone who don't know you, this is the first personal contact, the first impression! Visual memory will be printed over your written presentation. Because of too many content on the web, image is the lightest thing our mind can catch.
Moreover, think of LinkedIn as a highly credible professional site, and you come to understand that it forms your public image: your personal brand visual identification! In other ways: your "logo".
This is a photo you can re-use for the numerous other sites you use, to broadcast and build your image on the web.
You'd better have one!
I know that the preparation for a good one can be fastidious, but let me tell you that is worth the effort!
A blank one will attract to you suspicion, an impression of lack of completion, lackluster motivation and even a disrespectful attitude. What surveys say.
Above all, it will reflect an inexperience in social media, from which your visitor might deduce about your:
- aptitude at evolving and continuously learning to keep abreast on innovation
- your fit within the requirements of your industry
- motivation at following trends
- your networks (and networking skills!)
For the rest of the people that has already met with you, it can be useful to recognize you among loads of homonymous.
Author - Kevin Simonnet
LinkedIn is now a standard in recruitment, and even in business in general. As a recruiter, I systematically Google my contact. Not only the job seekers, but employer and whatever business relationship!
The LinkedIn profile tells longer than you imagine.
What's behind?
For someone who don't know you, this is the first personal contact, the first impression! Visual memory will be printed over your written presentation. Because of too many content on the web, image is the lightest thing our mind can catch.
Moreover, think of LinkedIn as a highly credible professional site, and you come to understand that it forms your public image: your personal brand visual identification! In other ways: your "logo".
This is a photo you can re-use for the numerous other sites you use, to broadcast and build your image on the web.
You'd better have one!
I know that the preparation for a good one can be fastidious, but let me tell you that is worth the effort!
A blank one will attract to you suspicion, an impression of lack of completion, lackluster motivation and even a disrespectful attitude. What surveys say.
Above all, it will reflect an inexperience in social media, from which your visitor might deduce about your:
- aptitude at evolving and continuously learning to keep abreast on innovation
- your fit within the requirements of your industry
- motivation at following trends
- your networks (and networking skills!)
For the rest of the people that has already met with you, it can be useful to recognize you among loads of homonymous.
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