The focus should match your career direction

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When I say ‘online profile’, more often than not I am talking about LinkedIn, but there is no reason why other social media channels may not be included in your toolkit, so you may have to transfer the principles of this section to other platforms.

If you want to know how to set up a great Linkedin profile, take a look here – but just to focus on the optimisation, and ensuring it does the job for which it is purposed, similar to your CV, but there is more scope here as you are not as restricted by word count as you are on your CV, you can include more content so that every facet of your career is represented adequately.

But it is impossible to represent everything in your history in your headline, which paraguay phone number library is perhaps one of the most important components of your profile [120-character limit], so choose wisely.

Some tools require maintenance or sharpening if they are to be fully useful, it is likewise with your LinkedIn profile – you need a sharp image [you see what I did there?] that places you in the most appropriate setting. If you are going to have a background image, and you should have a background image, rather than going for just a pretty picture that you happen to like, it should reflect your work or industry, or be designed in should a way that any visitor to your profile understands why you have used that particular image.

Get the dimensions right too..it is OK to shrink images, enlarging them [unless you really know what you are doing of course] may stretch or pixelate the image to the extent that the reader may think they forgot to put their lenses in.

If you are using the old UI, the dimensions are 1400 x 425 pixels and the new UI, 1536 x 768 pixels.

Ideally, you want further engagement from your visitors, rather than a LinkedIn browser, so include a call to action, I included a call to action on my background image where it is hard to miss, but you may want to be a little more subtle if you prefer not to give your job hunting status away to your current boss.