LinkedIn Bullets & Symbols, Making Your Profile Shine!

Hi Donna,

First, I want to congratulate you on a job VERY well done on your info and pages for creating a LinkedIn Profile. I am a career counselor, and I have been advocating its use to everyone, and creating profiles for people as well. You’ve done a LOT here, and provided a great deal of info, and I plan to send people to your site.

I currently work primarily as a program manager of a program helping returning veterans successfully transition into jobs, and help them use LinkedIn to connect to vet-friendly employers, military recruiters, et cetera.

I’d love to connect on LinkedIn, but you are pretty out of my network, so I thought I’d request it here. I am just getting some new business ideas together, but when they are better formed, I’d love to talk about how we might possibly work on something together.

Thanks,

Andy Brucia- Seattle, Washington
or andybrucia@gmail.com

Hi Donna

First rate article, I have incorporated some of your recommendations into my profile. I am very much a “visual” person and have always hated the blandness of LinkedIn.

Keep up the good work and Happy New Year

Dave

Thank you very much for the great idea and article.

Great information – looking forward to using this on my business profile

Thank you for sharing this information.

I was promoted three times within two and one half years at the same company. All three positions are listed under the same company, so readers who “skim” my profile don’t think I changed jobs too frequently. I used your solid line to separate each position, and the position title and dates are below the line. The line looks a little too thick for this space. I tried creating a line in Word and pasting it into LinkedIn, but LinkedIn says I exceeded the character limit. It doesn’t give this message for the solid line.

Is there a way to create a thinner line with the same number of characters as the solid line?

Thank you.

How to fool LinkedIn:

Here’s a link with neat little trick to add some text formatting to your linkedIn profile, eg: Underlines, etc

It’s meant for Facebook and Twitter, and requires some creativity when copying the text into your profile, but it generally speaking, it works 🙂

http://manytools.org/facebook-twitter/strikethrough-text/

Donna, what do you suggest for a college student’s headline? Currently, I am editing my LinkedIn and my title is Marketing intern for the company I am working for, but after reading this I realize taht is not an eyecatching and inviting headline. What do you suggest?
Thanks!
Jodi Cullity

Thanks for sharing the spruce-ups Donna.

After reading this I went and did a search on Google for symbols & buttons. I found some very interesting resources which will also let you use your “alt” button to add them instantly. I’ve included the link for anyone who may be interested.
http://usefulshortcuts.com/alt-codes/bullet-alt-codes.php

Thanks again and best wishes to all for a great week. ☼ ▲ ☺

Greetings Donna,

Thanks so much for sharing. I was able to implement immediately…Question though, how do you “bold” your headlines/headings?

Jamaal

Extremely generous and kind of you to post these.:)

Jasmyne Boswell
Writing Coach/Editor