Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 4:41:23 GMT -5
This has always been blocked on LinkedIn (it was only possible with an in Mail): impossible to put your email in an invitation or impossible to send an invitation with a link to an article, an offer, a news item, a video, a photo… Now it’s possible (for how long?) and that’s very good news. This allows you to give more credit and value to an invitation, since you can rely on sharing or content to get in touch with a new contact. Previously this possibility was reserved for inMails. And there, it wasn't so good before. That being said, what we know today with LinkedIn is that what is true today may no longer be true tomorrow. LinkedIn is the world's leading professional directory. It is a huge database of nearly 500 million profiles, including 12 million in France.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that a database lives on the information Email Data put into it and that the more information there is, the more efficient and informative the database can be. This means, I point out in relation to certain pseudo-experts who know nothing about it and have understood nothing about how the tool works, that content is one of the 2 bases of visibility on LinkedIn. Contrary to what some say, a synthetic profile, with little information, which plays the “tease” to keep some for the interview or the meeting, will yield nothing and will have few visits. Apart from special cases of personalities who are known and recognized enough to generate traffic to their profiles on their names alone, a profile must have content if it wants to be seen.
The recommendation of wanting to put as little as possible on your profile does not hold water: If you put too much on your profile, you won't have anything to say during an interview. On the one hand, if it is true it is worrying; on the other hand the purpose of LinkedIn is to say what we have done and what we know how to do, while the objective of an interview is to explain how (how we act, how we manage, how we lead, how we manage, how we can integrate or not into a corporate culture…). LinkedIn is not a semantic tool. Technically speaking, LinkedIn does not look for keywords or skills, but for character strings: telecom is not the same character string and the results of a query will be different; the same for agri-food and agro-food; ditto for director and director; the same for CFO and DAF; for CEO and General Manager.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that a database lives on the information Email Data put into it and that the more information there is, the more efficient and informative the database can be. This means, I point out in relation to certain pseudo-experts who know nothing about it and have understood nothing about how the tool works, that content is one of the 2 bases of visibility on LinkedIn. Contrary to what some say, a synthetic profile, with little information, which plays the “tease” to keep some for the interview or the meeting, will yield nothing and will have few visits. Apart from special cases of personalities who are known and recognized enough to generate traffic to their profiles on their names alone, a profile must have content if it wants to be seen.
The recommendation of wanting to put as little as possible on your profile does not hold water: If you put too much on your profile, you won't have anything to say during an interview. On the one hand, if it is true it is worrying; on the other hand the purpose of LinkedIn is to say what we have done and what we know how to do, while the objective of an interview is to explain how (how we act, how we manage, how we lead, how we manage, how we can integrate or not into a corporate culture…). LinkedIn is not a semantic tool. Technically speaking, LinkedIn does not look for keywords or skills, but for character strings: telecom is not the same character string and the results of a query will be different; the same for agri-food and agro-food; ditto for director and director; the same for CFO and DAF; for CEO and General Manager.