Would you believe me if I said you could check any of these items off your to-do list just by giving your LinkedIn page a facelift? It sounds shallow, but it’s true: the likelihood you’ll receive a job interview or have a career-changing conversation within the next year rely heavily on the caliber of your LinkedIn profile.
You may as well shove those high heels back in the closet and forget about ironing that shirt because you can propel your career forward just by laying down on your couch with a laptop while wearing yesterday’s sweats. It may not be a professional nor ergonomic look, but in today’s age, it works.….Story continues….
By: Ashley Stahl
Source: 5 Secrets To A LinkedIn Profile That Can Compete In The 2023 Job Market
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The basic functionality of LinkedIn allows users to create profiles, which for employees typically consist of a curriculum vitae describing their work experience, education and training, skills, and a personal photo. Employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates. Users can find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in one’s contact network.
Users can save jobs that they would like to apply for. Users also have the ability to follow different companies. The site also enables members to make “connections” to each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships. Members can invite anyone to become a connection.
Users can obtain introductions to the connections of connections (termed second-degree connections) and connections of second-degree connections (termed third-degree connections). A member’s list of connections can be used in a number of ways. For example, users can search for second-degree connections who work at a company they are interested in, and then ask a specific first-degree connection in common for an introduction.
The “gated-access approach” (where contact with any professional requires either an existing relationship, or the intervention of a contact of theirs) is intended to build trust among the service’s users. LinkedIn participated in the EU’s International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles. Users can interact with each other in a variety of ways:
Connections can interact by choosing to “like” posts and “congratulate” others on updates such as birthdays, anniversaries and new positions, as well as by direct messaging. Users can share video with text and filters with the introduction of LinkedIn Video. Users can write posts and articles within the LinkedIn platform to share with their network.
Since September 2012, LinkedIn has enabled users to “endorse” each other’s skills. However, there is no way of flagging anything other than positive content. LinkedIn solicits endorsements using algorithms that generate skills members might have. Members cannot opt out of such solicitations, with the result that it sometimes appears that a member is soliciting an endorsement for a non-existent skill.
LinkedIn ‘applications’ often refer to external third-party applications that interact with LinkedIn’s developer API. However, in some cases, it could refer to sanctioned applications featured on a user’s profile page.
In February 2015, LinkedIn released an updated terms of use for their developer API. The developer API allows both companies and individuals the ability to interact with LinkedIn’s data through creation of managed third-party applications. Applications must go through a review process and request permission from the user before accessing a user’s data.
Normal use of the API is outlined in LinkedIn’s developer documents, including:Sign into external services using LinkedIn, Add items or attributes to a user profile & Share items or articles to user’s timeline. In October 2008, LinkedIn enabled an “applications platform” which allows external online services to be embedded within a member’s profile page.
Among the initial applications were an Amazon Reading List that allows LinkedIn members to display books they are reading, a connection to Tripit, and a Six Apart, WordPress and TypePad application that allows members to display their latest blog postings within their LinkedIn profile. In November 2010, LinkedIn allowed businesses to list products and services on company profile pages; it also permitted LinkedIn members to “recommend” products and services and write reviews. Shortly after, some of the external services were no longer supported, including Amazon’s Reading List.
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