3 Places To Pack Your LinkedIn Profile With Keywords - Work It Daily

3 Places To Pack Your LinkedIn Profile With Keywords - Work It Daily Trying to get attention with your LinkedIn profile? It’s easier than you think - especially if you’ve employed a strong keyword strategy. Here’s why you should power up your pack your LinkedIn profile with keywords: The more skills and job titles that match recruiter searches for candidates, the higher volume of traffic your profile will receive. In turn, better traffic means you’re more likely to be the target of a great new job. 3 Places To Pack Your LinkedIn Profile With Keywords If you’re lacking in keyword knowledge, but need to be found more often on LinkedIn, add keywords in these critical places on your profile: 1. Your Headline Not only will a keyword-centric Headline help your profile traffic, it just looks better to employers. So, replace “Operations and Production at XYZ Company” (the default from your current position) to “Operations Director Manager. Cost Savings from Lean Six Sigma Process Improvements in Aluminum Manufacturing.” The same goes for “Unemployed and Looking,” which only tells employers you’re desperate. Instead, pull in a job title and some skill sets (“IT Director | Infrastructure Applications | IT Roadmaps | Global Growth Strategy, ERP, Business Transformation”) that convey your value-add. 2. Your Summary Along with a powerful opening line that stirs interest, your LinkedIn Summary should contain keywords relevant to your goal: “Creating over-goal revenue by zeroing in on untapped markets is how I’ve blown past quotas (up to 185% of goal), using innovative prospecting and consultative sales practices as Director of Business Development and Sales Manager.” Notice that this Summary is completely different from a traditional resume profile, which doesn’t contain enough specifics to be useful on LinkedIn. 3. Your Interests A little-used area in which to place keywords, your Interests (under the Additional Info on your LinkedIn Profile) can be used to add even more terms related to your career goals. However, you’ll also want to maintain the original purpose, with information on your areas of professional and personal interest. Here’s how you can use the 1,000 characters allowed in this section to achieve both objectives: “As a Sales Director and candidate for VP of Sales, once I believe in a product and set a sales goal, I’ve always achieved it (translating my passion for emerging technologies into new market entries for Internet products, 143% of quota from relationship building at United Airlines, and cloud product sales that opened 3 territories). I continue to be interested in partnering with VARs to grow managed services and hosting service revenue. I also like to take a hand in developing sales trainees and keeping up with cloud and managed services industry developments. Other interest and hobbies include fly fishing, spy novels, and spending time with my family and two dogs.” Note how this Interests section specifies several job titles, as well as key product areas and other skills that can count in a recruiter search. So, remember: all that stands between you and more LinkedIn traffic might be some additional keywords. Take the time to load up your profile in these areas, and you’ll experience a better hit rate and perhaps even more job offers. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!