Why You need an All-Star LinkedIn Profile

There are 350,000,000 professionals on LinkedIn which makes it the leading way in which professionals connect and network with one another. It is  also the number one tool recruiters use in hiring candidates and has become such an integral part of the career eco-system that there are now career LinkedIn profile writers, professionals who for a fee will write and optimize your LinkedIn profile to ensure that it comes up in targeted search results.

Users with complete  profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities through LinkedIn than users with incomplete profiles and it is not just enough to have a complete profile as LinkedIn profiles are ranked by their strength which ranges from beginner to intermediate,  then advanced, expert and all-star.  

To get your profile to all-star status you need to do the following-

- Select your industry and current location

- State your current position with a description of your current function

- List at least 2 past positions

- List at least 3 of your skills

- Put up a profile photo

- Have at least 50 connections in your network

Getting an all-star profile will put you amongst the 51% of LinkedIn users who have complete profiles. That means you will be 1 of the 178,500,000 LinkedIn users with complete profiles. Not bad but if you need to stand out from the crowd you would need more than a basic all-star profile.

I would be sharing with you in an upcoming series, ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile for maximum result. Keep in touch.

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