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Your Tech Savvy LinkedIn Profile
Simple Steps
There are some simple things you can do on your LinkedIn profile to make it look more professional and stand out to professional employers. The first simple step to take is to create a custom url for your profile. This will make it look clear when you list it on our resume, as well as in the interaction with your profile. It also makes you easier to find for potential employers. A non-customized url has additional numbers and letters appended to the end of your name, looking something like this: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-stammer-m-a-b59485120. When you customize it, it will only have your name after linkedin.com/in making it a cleaner look. It may be a simple step but it’s not really intuitive and LinkedIn buries “how” a bit so following these steps to customize your profile url.
Another simple but not intuitive step to give your LI profile that tech savvy flair is to change your industry. It’s amazing the flood of inbound inquiries my students get just by changing this one simple setting. Use the edit button when on your profile screen to change your industry to “Computer Software”. If you are in tech working on products or aspiring to do that, this is the most closely aligned technology option. Again, simple, but powerful.
