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Our next free LinkedIn profile makeover winner is… (the envelope, please!) Bob Warren, founder of ResumeBear, a phenomenal (and free) tool for job-seekers. I won’t even try to describe it in a sentence or two — I wouldn’t do it justice. Just go check it out if you’re in the job market. Bob is a . . . Congrats to our third free profile makeover winner, Karen Briggs! Karen is a freelance journalist, editor and photographer facing a dilemma that so many people have when it comes to LinkedIn. Karen is actively working as a freelancer, but also looking for full-time work. How do you present yourself on LinkedIn in a way that . . . I originally wrote about this issue back in 2007, and while LinkedIn has occasionally (and inconsistently) manually cracked down on this practice, 5 years later they still haven’t really done much to curb it. It’s a fairly common practice, primarily among “open networkers”, it seems, to put all kinds of stuff in the name field . . . When LinkedIn first launched, there was nowhere to put links to any of your web sites in your profile. Then they added the ability for a single link, and later three. Now, they not only allow you to have three links, you can also make the text for those links whatever you want, rather than . . . Besides the fact that it’s against LinkedIn’s User Agreement, this should just be plain common sense: . . . Congratulations to our Tuesday winner of a free LinkedIn profile makeover, Wayne Hurlbert, owner of Blog Business World, one of the oldest and most widely-read small business / entrepreneur blogs, and host of Blog Business Success, one of the longest-running shows on Blog Talk Radio. Wayne’s LinkedIn profile looks “complete” at first glance, but he’s . . . This is from the Linked Intelligence archives, originally published 3/20/2009. I’m republishing it because I saw a couple of profiles today that were darn near this bad. Some people never learn! Some search engine optimization company got the brilliant idea that they could use LinkedIn for pure SEO purposes, and they set up a profile . . . Our Monday winner for a free LinkedIn profile makeover is Steven Gonzalez, General Sales Manager at Radio One Philadelphia. Congratulations, Steven! We’ve got a “Before” screen capture of Steven’s LinkedIn profile below (click to zoom). As you’ll see, it’s pretty well filled out already, complete with articles and a SlideShare presentation. But I’m sure the . . . It’s the new year, and you’ve got big plans for 2012. Whether it’s finding a new job, landing new clients, or boosting your brand, updating your LinkedIn profile is an essential step for any major business initiative or career move. So to help you with those goals, we’re declaring January 9-13, 2012, “LinkedIn Profile Makeover . . . |
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