This post has been updated here: You won?t believe what LinkedIn did to their discounted premium plan I have bad news! It seems the LinkedIn Personal Plus Premium Account is no longer publicly available. This was the account type I recommended to my clients and it’s the account type I use myself. The cost was …
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While I was doing my morning one on one LinkedIn Makeover session with a client, I noticed there was a change in the way LinkedIn presented the Skills section. LinkedIn used to provide the opportunity to list your proficiency level and years of experience along with the skill. This has changed and now you are limited to just the skill. It makes sense. Those fields added very little value to the profile because everyone listed themselves as “Experts” regardless of their years of experience or true proficiency level.
Here’s what the new Skills section looks like now:
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Most people use the default URL for their LinkedIn profile. It’s rather ugly and looks like this:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/your-name/31/54a/b91
It certainly isn’t a URL that you can remember easily or market offline.
Don’t worry, there’s hope! LinkedIn allows you the ability to customize your LinkedIn profile address!
Here’s a short (less than 2 minute) video that shows you how to customize your LinkedIn profile address:
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