Are You Happy With Your LinkedIn Profile? Today we will be looking at the very basics that you need in order to build a strong foundation for your LinkedIn profile to bring you success. Here is a brief list of what will be covered in today's podcast; * Applies if you are an employee, contractor or entrepreneur * Get a professional photo done * Background photo * Media - photos, video, audio, embed.ly providers * Summary for each role * Contact details for the main summary * Writing a story * Talk about the problem * Adding a disclaimer * Compelling media * Switch off auto updates We will cover what you need as a minimum and the next time we will look at more advanced features. [00:00:11] Hi folks, Alvern here. Welcome to the setup for success series. Let's start at the beginning. Today we're going to start at the beginning. By setting you up for success with a LinkedIn professional profile. Now there are many, many courses and books written on this topic. But as I have been told that I have a really good profile. Over 12,000 followers and I belong to 50 plus groups, get between 5 and 15 connection requests every single day and I have an SSI score of 80+. I'll explain what an SSI score later. I tell you where I believe or why I believe I get success on LinkedIn. So this particular episode applies if you are an employee or contractor or even an entrepreneur. I don't know if you are aware of it but one of the best ways to be found online especially when it comes to professional networking is through the platform called LinkedIn.com. I believe I joined me back in the year 2007, so that's 10 years now. And I have been growing from strength to strength since then. Now one of the first things I would encourage you to do is to get a professional photo for your LinkedIn profile. It doesn't matter if you're photogenic or not. It really is important because as they say an image or a photo, or picture speaks a thousand words. Just your picture can attract whoever you want to attract whether it be customers or clients or even potential employers to your particular profile. [00:02:19] So you know if it even if it cost a bit of money it would be worth it to have a professional photo on your profile going forward. So something that you need to look into there are many photographers out there you can go to a photography studio and get a professional photo done for your profile. [00:02:45] Next thing we're going to look at then is your past and current experiences. [00:02:50] So there’s many, many different schools of thought that say that you should have probably the last 10 years or even last five years depending on how often you have moved jobs on your LinkedIn profile. If for example you have any sort of gaps in your experience in other words it wasn't a continuous service from one job to the other and you have gaps of one month or two months it shouldn't should be such a big deal. However, if it is you were a homemaker for example a housewife or even a househusband. Now, this is particularly for ladies so housewife then you probably been home looking after the kids for that amount of time. You probably had a hobby even at that point in time my advice to you is even write down that hobby whatever it is you were doing be it photography, basket weaving, fishing you decide whatever those hobbies were and put those down because they actually help especially if they're relevant to what it is you want to do in the future they actually help you build up your particular profile. In terms of the background photo if you go into a LinkedIn and click create you'd see the option to add your own profile photo as well as a back...
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