LinkedIn: Creating Your Profile

>> I'm in college now, exploring my career options and hoping to build a network of people that will help get me where I want to go. It's time I set up a LinkedIn account. [ Music ] To start with, I will need a good headline. It's the first thing people will see when they come across my profile while searching. So how do I want to present myself? It should be concise and compelling. It should state my abilities and my intentions. It should leave a recruiter or hiring manager wanting to read more. How about aspiring consumer marketer with a passion for strategy, promotion, and campaign management. >> Andrew Phillips, I'm an Account Executive on the Campaigns and Advocacy Team for LinkedIn here in Washington, DC. Just starting with a really high quality photo, if you don't have a professional headshot, you can get one, you know, places like the Apple Store. There are lots of different places where you can get a high quality high res headshot. So start with that headshot and, you know, help to convey that professional identity. >> As for my summary and skills section, I want to be as robust as possible, including all relevant experiences, and perhaps any volunteer work. It should paint a full picture of who I am. >> Too many people start their profile just with their experience and they leave it at that. But use it as a chance to tell a story. Use it as a chance to, you know, talk about your goals or objectives. Talk about experience. Talk about why you matter. Talk about what your ultimate goals are in your professional life. >> Now would be a good time in the process to add some industry keywords to my profile. I can pull keywords from job descriptions I am interested in or from profiles of people currently in the field. Many recruiters search by keywords, so my profile may have a better chance of being discovered this way. >> Your chance of appearing within our recruitment tool per the algorithm is picking out words from your summary. If you are an honor student in statistics, write somewhere in that profile in that summary, I am highly qualified to understand data and analysis and things like that. Those keywords, data, analysis, quantitative study, those will all come up to a recruiter, so you'll be more likely to be matched up with the right skills and opportunities. >> Finally, I'm going to include a few references, customize my LinkedIn URL to my own name to improve search abilities, and I'll add the video clip of me presenting ideas to the Young Marketers of Washington group.