🏆 How to stand out as a designer on LinkedIn?

Tips on how to optimize your LinkedIn profile effectively for maximum exposure.

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This Week’s Learning:

How To Use LinkedIn Effectively As A Designer?

In our recent group session, Kristine Yuen, Vicky Gao, and Brandon Lal ☻ have shared some helpful and effective tips on how to optimize your LinkedIn profile effectively for maximum exposure:

1. Customize Profile Top Card

• Customize your background photo to show what you are passionate about

• Utilize the headline to show your role

• Adding location can help you be discovered 23x more in searches
  

2. Update Contact Info

• The contact info section makes it easier for recruiters to find your email and portfolio

• Add a link to your relevant websites such as blogs, video channels, and other social media

3. Treat Profile Summary As an “Elevator Pitch”

• Highlight your strength, particularly soft skills, and hard skills relevant to design.

• Don’t make it too short or dense. 40+ words make it more likely to show up in searches.

4. Add Relevant Skills

• Arrange your top 3 skills by the importance that you want to be found

• Having relevant skills help you show up 27x more appearance in search results

• Take skill assessments

5. Ask For Recommendation

• Ask recommendations from teachers, employers, managers, or former colleagues

• Recommendations could help build credibility and validate your role by peers

6. Create relevant and engaging posts

• Make posts public to get a bigger audience

• Use @mention and #hashtags to get attention from certain areas

• Add links, videos, or photos to make posts visually appealing
  

Top-rated Group Sessions:

Join Ryan Yao & Brandon Groce for some UX interview tips and how to do a website/app breakdown or critique. Happening on Tuesday - 26 October 2021, 1 PM EST.

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