Your LinkedIn Profile : Optimize Your Skills Section
About Course
Lesson Introduction
I’ve helped 100’s of people optimize their LinkedIn Profiles. Without a doubt, the Skills Section is the most underutilized and overlooked section. 30-45 minutes spent on your skills will showcase your professional competencies AND transform your profile visibility, discoverability, and networking on LinkedIn. Guaranteed!
The biggest reason people don’t complete their Skills Section is that they don’t know what to skills to add. I’m going show you how to over come that!
The reason why your Skills Section is important? LinkedIn is built on algorymths. These complex calculations are used to match you and your profile with:
- People (potential connections, followers, clients, and recruiters)
- Content
- Jobs & Opportunities
- Companies
- Groups
- Events
- Courses
- Top Voices
- Services & Products
You can list up to 50 Skills (chosen from a massive and evergrowing list).
Skills are automatically categorized by LinkedIn. You just add the skills:
- Industry Knowledge
- Tools & Technologies
- Interpersonal Skills
- Other Skills
Your connections, followers, colleagues, and clients can Endorse your listed skills. These endorsements show up on your profile.
Fox's Expert Tip
You will be tagging your chosen skills when we set up your Experience, Projects, Certifications, and various other sections during later courses, so it pays to spend a bit of time to get it right and done now. It will save you a ton of time in the future.
Free LinkedIn Course
This is the second of five courses in the LinkedIn Profile series that are provided FREE to everyone. Simply enrol and complete the course at your own pace. You’re invited to leave a review, but it is entirely optional.
Expert Tips
Throughout lessons I use a box like this to offer expert tips based on my years of experience in optimizing LinkedIn profiles.
LinkedIn Premium Notes
Throughout lessons I use a gold box like this to identify elements that are only available to LinkedIn Premium users. LinkedIn offers a number of premium profile services including LinkedIn Premium and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
Course Content
Introduction
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How To Activate Your Skills Section
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Why Your LinkedIn Skills Section Matters
Your Industry Knowledge
Your Industry Skills
Your Interpersonal Skills
Your Tools & Software Skills
Your Other Skills
BONUS LESSONS
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