Current Employment Trends and Their Implications for Business, Society, and Individuals
February 12, 2025
American students have been burdened with student debt. Much has been read and written about the mountains of debt that American students face. These decisions are made by students, who are young adults and do not really have the financial knowledge required to make such an important decision. Several of these students ended up being […]
Why Did American Employers Mark May As The Mental Health Awareness Month? This year, the month of May was celebrated as Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States and Canada. Across the US and Canada, employers and employees alike took part in a month long activity binge, focusing on how the American and Canadian […]
An expert on engagement, David Zinger is a Canadian based management consultant whose work is designed to fostering relationships to increase the employee engagement in your organisation. With an experience of more than 25 years in this field, he is able to combine the current researches with practical approaches in order achieve substantial results. Based […]
The problem of retention begins with recruitment! In most of the organizations the recruitment function operates independently of the retention department. HR people have so far been naive to the direct relationship between the two and the resulting increase in employee turnover. It is therefore in the interest of organizations to understand how the hiring […]
The Need for Employee Wellness Managers In recent months, there has been a spate of articles in leading management journals as well as in the mainstream media about why organizations must also have wellness managers in addition to HR (Human Resource) managers. Indeed, the need for wellness managers or officers stems from the fact that […]
LinkedIn, as most of us are aware of, is akin to a social networking site like Facebook to be precise. But LinkedIn is mostly being used for the professional purpose. This is a platform which you can utilize to showcase your skills, expertise, education, experience, etc. You might be thinking that a resume also can do these things, but one thing to keep in mind – resumes are not launched or sent to someone until you personally do it. You can update your resumes to job sites, but who sees them? I am sure not many.
But if you update your profile in LinkedIn, chances are there that the number of audiences will increase. Basically, through Linked you can let the job world know about yourself in a bit detailed manner. So, a well written LinkedIn profile come into the picture.
Whether recruiters accept the fact or not, they Google candidates name before hiring just to check the background which is essential for them to know before they hire you. Now that we know what LinkedIn is, it is essential to know why having a LinkedIn profile is so important? Let’s see why it is important?
Although we suggest and most of the hiring managers suggest not exceeding the page of the resume more than 2 pages, people still tend to add on information to a resume which is not essential. Hence many of the resumes find a place in junk or garbage bucket. Whereas LinkedIn will not allow you to exceed even a single character if the limit goes beyond the prescribed rule.
Think about how you would introduce yourself to someone. Think on those lines and accordingly update your Summary of LinkedIn. In the experience section, share the learnings which you might have accumulated while working in your current company. The challenges that you have faced, how you overcame them, how did you add value to where you have worked? Let the reader peep into you as a professional.
So get Linked and get connected!
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