By Alison Green
LinkedIn can be a powerful tool for networking to expand their contacts and even to find a job, but has his own stamp landmines. Here are eight of the most common outputs sound that people in LinkedIn do - and how to make sure that you avoid them.
1. Submission of applications for generic compound. LinkedIn was probably a mistake, a standard for e-mail connection request to create text sent through your system, because many people do not make the effort. People who knew him well but not the message received by default, but if you try to connect with someone who can not even remember it, it is wiser to make the message and the person remember how to know each other to associated learning and why we ask. Moreover, even if the person does not remind him, he will make a better impression and connection consolidate enter through something individually.
, 2. Do you have a contact person who hardly know you recommend a job Tell someone for a job , the equivalent is to say: work with this person, "I have no direct experience and I will establish my own reputation in the put line for them to vouch. "obviously, this is not the kind of thing that anyone have the right to ask you barely know or work. Also, if you get a referral, you want a bright, not warm "person contacted me on LinkedIn." Also ...
3. Ask people who know you to write the trouble make recommendations for your profile. Recommendations to the details and nuances of his strengths. Just ask someone who knows his job to write a recommendation for the person who is placed in an awkward position where they either take the complaints you reject your request or write something that can not really be ready. It makes people uncomfortable is not a good strategy for networking, and any resulting recommendation is likely to be vague and useless.
4. LinkedIn often the "fuses". Now you can with other people in "cheap" specific skills , the endorsee based on a real knowledge of the skill set led to an epidemic of Visa. savvy users do not want their profiles things overloaded, which have no real experience, so use a light touch with this function (or not even to use because it does not really do not carry weight in most people).
5. With an unprofessional impression. You should not pay a professional to make your recording, but it must be a professional headshot. That is, no pictures of the beach and it is strapless. Moreover, the photograph must be right for you, not you and your spouse or children. Remember: If you want any information on their children on their business card or resume (and should not) that are not on your LinkedIn page.
6. Fill your designated Summary opinion of itself. It is a "visionary leader", "charismatic communicator", "exceptional marketing" or other highly subjective self-assessment are likely to cause eye rolling. If this is true for you, it should evidence of the benefits that you list. Other people who understand their craft praise effusively. It is not something to make yourself credible.
7. Today confuse a dating site. Most people are to manage LinkedIn contacts and career that are not the sizes to have potential dates. If you are using the site to meet other users, you creep people. You would think that this can not be said, but the legions of women who already flirty inappropriate messages (or worse) on the website unfortunately can not say anything else.
8. Inflate. Their experiences. It's bad enough to inflate their experience, skills and achievements in your resume But if you do LinkedIn, the people who want to know the truth. If their partner or ex-partner, you will see your profile and view reports of performance or responsibilities they know that you do not have much of a hand, they will know that you are lying. It will destroy your credibility, maybe you do gossip and people less likely to testify in the future.
Keep it truthful.
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