LinkedIn Quick Tip: Adjust Your Specialties

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The “Specialties” section of your LinkedIn profile summary offers you a valuable opportunity to draw in a reader’s eye to the skills you want to leverage in your next job.

Tip of the day: Create a “list effect” by hard-returning between each specialty.

When you have a lot of specialties, it’s much easier to read them in a column than in a long paragraph.

Example…

Which of the following is easier to read?

Career Advice & Job Search Strategy, Personal Branding, Human Resource Advising, Outplacement Services, Team Training & Corporate Development, Executive Leadership Coaching, Social Media in the Workplace, Generational Differences & Teambuilding Strategies

OR

Career Advice & Job Search Strategy
Personal Branding
Human Resource Advising
Outplacement Services
Team Training & Corporate Development
Executive Leadership Coaching
Social Media in the Workplace
Generational Differences & Teambuilding Strategies

See how the column creates a “list effect” that makes it easier to read?

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One Comment

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   Kimberly

   February 1, 2013 at 2:10 PM

   I can’t get the list effect to happen. All I can get is the boxes and the option to drag/rearrange the order. Help?

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