![]() ![]() As we can see in the bios above, the specialties is basically a list of keywords strung together for others to find you via the LinkedIn search tool. So what’re specialties all about? This used to be a box on its own but specialties were moved into the main summary some time ago by LinkedIn. Here’s one from the LinkedIn boss himself, Jeff Wiener.Īnother one from the boss of the boss, Reid Hoffman: ![]() Here’s one from LinkedIn’s European boss, Ariel Eckstein. Related: Should You Write a LinkedIn Summary in the 1st or 3rd Person? Example summaries: You want your summary to stand out and the reader to think they need to take action and speak with you pronto. This is likely to be a list of achievements, and if so make sure you quantify them as much as possible. Then write what you can do for others and why people would want to engage with you. You want to start out your summary with who you are and what you do most of the time. No one is going to scroll down and scrutinize every position you have ever had or take their time to deduce what skills you possess by looking at your groups and associations. Why should you fill it in? For starters, it gives the reader a quick overview of who you are, what you do, what you are looking for, and most importantly, what you can do for them. In spite of this, all too often people don’t even bother to fill either section in. This is where you can enter a bunch of keywords that recruiters, customers, suppliers will use to search and find your profile. One often-neglected section of a LinkedIn profile is the summary (background) section. ![]()
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