Open to Opportunities on LinkedIn - Sterling Career Concepts

Open to Opportunities on LinkedIn Open to Opportunities on LinkedIn In helping a recent client develop her LinkedIn profile, I debated the best way to note that she was open to current opportunities. I had read in the past thatyou should list yourself ascurrently open to opportunitiesbutstruggled with the best way to achievethis.Ill share my experience: As you look through company options, youll see some creative users have addedcompany names such as Open to advertising job but when you select that, it looks awkward on your profile because it populates asan actual company name. At least it lookedawkward to me. I onceread(by Jason Alba, I believe) and agree that listing Open to opportunities or Looking for a new job inthe title line that showsright under your name has two negatives: (1) you risk coming across as desperate, and (2) youre wasting valuable LinkedIn real estate on a one-liner that does not convey your brand or value to a new employer. I much prefer to use that text boxasaheadline that summarizes your strengths as a candidate. Adding a comment in your status box about your job search is another possibility but I only recommend it for active LinkedIn users as it will reflect the posting date. For optimum effectiveness,use this strategy if you log on to the sitefrequently and can enter anew and different status update related to your search at least once a week or else youre leaving stale information out there. My client preferred a more maintenance-free plan so our solution was to list Currently open to opportunities. Resume available upon request. as the last lineofher Summary.Including it any further down in the profile and it would be lost. In her case, it fitnicely at the end of the summary as its own paragraph. So that was my solution. Id love to hear how others havereflected this intheir profile or how some of my colleagues are handling the situation for their own clients. To your LinkedIn success! Open to Opportunities on LinkedIn Open to Opportunities on LinkedIn In helping a recent client develop her LinkedIn profile, I debated the best way to note that she was open to current opportunities. I had read in the past thatyou should list yourself ascurrently open to opportunitiesbutstruggled with the best way to achievethis.Ill share my experience: As you look through company options, youll see some creative users have addedcompany names such as Open to advertising job but when you select that, it looks awkward on your profile because it populates asan actual company name. At least it lookedawkward to me. I onceread(by Jason Alba, I believe) and agree that listing Open to opportunities or Looking for a new job inthe title line that showsright under your name has two negatives: (1) you risk coming across as desperate, and (2) youre wasting valuable LinkedIn real estate on a one-liner that does not convey your brand or value to a new employer. I much prefer to use that text boxasaheadline that summarizes your strengths as a candidate. Adding a comment in your status box about your job search is another possibility but I only recommend it for active LinkedIn users as it will reflect the posting date. For optimum effectiveness,use this strategy if you log on to the sitefrequently and can enter anew and different status update related to your search at least once a week or else youre leaving stale information out there. My client preferred a more maintenance-free plan so our solution was to list Currently open to opportunities. Resume available upon request. as the last lineofher Summary.Including it any further down in the profile and it would be lost. In her case, it fitnicely at the end of the summary as its own paragraph. So that was my solution. Id love to hear how others havereflected this intheir profile or how some of my colleagues are handling the situation for their own clients. To your LinkedIn success!