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How to show multiple career goals on LinkedIn
Today, my friend Hannah Morgan, @careersherpa, shared a link to a Quora question about LinkedIn. It asks, “How do you show multiple career objectives on LinkedIn?”
This is my reply…What do you think?
This is a difficult proposition, since LinkedIn forces you to select one industry and it isn’t set up to highlight multiple career objectives. Additionally, if your target jobs are too diverse, you risk confusing the reader about your goals. If the job types are similar enough, it makes sense to share your flexibility in the summary section, using a story illustrating your abilities in more than one area. Be sure to highlight how your skills and accomplishments quality you for each type of job.
Other suggestions:
- Have recommendations covering all of your career goals, from people who know your abilities in different areas and can address your skills in each.
- Manage your own website, which gives you a lot more flexibility to highlight and showcase your various areas of expertise than LinkedIn provides! (Take a look at www.getasocialresume.com for one option to create your own “social resume.”)
Learn more about Quora and how you may use it as a way to help propel your career!
Answer the question on Quora and please add your ideas to the comments below!
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How to find people on LinkedIn?
I wrote about LinkedIn this week and about how to subscribe to RSS feeds for the Answers section. Before I published the post, my friend Hannah Morgan, AKA @careersherpa, contacted me to ask if I’d contribute a suggestion to help readers find great people to connect with on LinkedIn.
There are so many great ways, but since I had LinkedIn’s Answers on the brain, I replied:
Using LinkedIn’s Answers is one way to expand potential connections. Often, when I ask a question, people who answer it will request to connect, or if I answer a question, people who asked it may request that we “link in.” If you are asking and answering questions related to your field, you may “meet” people who could be great networking contacts you wouldn’t otherwise know.
A lot of our colleagues offered great ideas to help you find people via LinkedIn on Hannah’s blog. Be sure to visit CareerSherpa.com for all the suggestions!
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