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The balance between personal and professional effectiveness
Proactivity versus reactivity
The importance of defining your path in life
People are not clicking your profile
LinkedIn used to be a resume platform and that has changed a lot. The days of people clicking your profile to see your online resume are long gone. Your profile is still looked at, but just not as much as you think.
People are spending more time on LinkedIn looking at what content you post, the comments you leave, and what posts you hit the like button on.
If you’re updating your LinkedIn profile like your career depends on it, it doesn’t matter — not anymore, anyway.
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Free promotion for your employer
When you update your LinkedIn profile with your job and effectively tag your employer by doing so, you’re endorsing them.
Here’s the thing: When you join a new company, you don’t know if their mission is pure or if they are the real deal. You could have done all the research and then still ...
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The focus of your career
Your LinkedIn profile tells someone a lot about you. For me, I don’t want to confuse people by trying to be too many things to too many people.
I have chosen (for now) to make my LinkedIn profile about my writing career only and not have any connection to my day job. This allows people to d...
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The need for privacy
In some areas of my life, I like to be private (you might be the same).
The career situation this year has been a tough one for me and having my LinkedIn profile updated can cause people to treat my circumstances like a reality TV show waiting for the next episode.
It’s nice to know t...
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Updating Your Job Profile On Linkedin
Just because everybody tells you to update your LinkedIn profile like it’s some trophy-winning contest, it doesn’t mean you should or you must.
Learning to sit back sometimes and take no action to see what transpires is an interesting activity. Holding back from updating my LinkedIn profile...
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Failing in the first 6 months
Most employment laws around the world these days allows for a six month probation period. When you update your LinkedIn profile, you don’t know if you’ll still be at the company in six months. For all you know, you will part ways with your employer.
Updating your LinkedIn profile means that...
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Customers learn something about you
Now that my LinkedIn profile is solely focused on my writing career, it makes the clients I deal with curious.
When they look me up on LinkedIn, they see a different person to one they interact with. There’s this whole other side that they get to discover and so far, this has brought me clo...
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Your employer can dictate what you say
When you tag a company as your employer, from that day forth, everything you say and do on LinkedIn can be curated by that company.
If you say something that you really believe in and the company you work for see it, they can legitimately ask you to take it down — which is fair enough.
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