Chapter 10
Getting Your Experiences Ready
IN THIS CHAPTER
Detailing your career trajectory
Deciding what to include and what to omit
Dealing with job gaps
The Experience section on your LinkedIn profile is where you explain your career path and highlight your background, successes, qualifications, and abilities. Most people immediately jump in and start adding experiences without thought to where they’ve been or where they are going in their career. Before you dive in and start adding your past positions to LinkedIn, it’s important to take a step back and look at your complete career trajectory.
Many people, looking to save time, simply copy and paste their resume experiences directly into their LinkedIn profiles. Although copying and pasting from a resume does save time, it is also a huge mistake. The time you save will be made up in lost opportunity.
Not everyone is on LinkedIn for job search. It’s important to make sure your Experience section matches your goals as well as your career trajectory. As soon as you paste in your old resume, whatever LinkedIn goal you have suddenly looks like you are desperately looking for a job. However, when your goal is in fact job search, your ...
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