Anyone to do a Linkedin profile pic?

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sportsluvr

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I'm back in the job market and I need to get a professional-looking picture in my LinkedIn profile.

Any suggestions whom I can use? Any members on Barf?

Thanks.
 
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alien
Does LinkedIn have any value? Tired of seeing junkmail from LinkedIn everytime I check email. I don't need to know someone changed their profile picture or has a new contact or gave me an enforcement when they barely know what I do.
And I don't need to know that there's only days left for an opportunity to accept some shit upgrade offer from LinkedIn.
I have to start spamming that crap.
 
Cyclesuzy

Cyclesuzy

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sportsluvr said:
I'm back in the job market and I need to get a professional-looking picture in my LinkedIn profile.

Any suggestions whom I can use? Any members on Barf?

Thanks.
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Max aka Frozenuts or Koi aka i am koi are decent local photographers who might be willing to help out a fellow barfer. :)
 
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CoorsLight

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Blankpage said:
Does LinkedIn have any value? Tired of seeing junkmail from LinkedIn everytime I check email. I don't need to know someone changed their profile picture or has a new contact or gave me an enforcement when they barely know what I do.
And I don't need to know that there's only days left for an opportunity to accept some shit upgrade offer from LinkedIn.
I have to start spamming that crap.
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I got one job through LinkedIn, and I get contacted by recruiters though LinkedIn about 1-3 times a week. Usually they have decent opportunities. If I wasn't happy with my job, I'd definitely use LinkedIn as the primary tool to find a new gig.

It probably depends on the particular industry, but my job situation would probably be different (in a bad way) without it. I think it's useful.

Edit: you don't need a LinkedIn pic. If you are looking for a job, there's probably more harm you can do with a pic than not having one at all.
 
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sportsluvr

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To answer your question about whether or not it is useful, I believe it is. I have compared what I consider to be professional quality resumes with what I have and it is much easier to point to an online resume(on LinkedIn) rather than to mail an outdated copy of your resume to prospective recruiters and hiring managers when asked. I now include a link to my LinkedIn resume when I respond via e-mail. That saves them the trouble of opening up a word document and sifting through it to figure out my background and experience.

A clean-looking portrait picture in my profile adds value and I have to try every trick in the book because I'm out of work now.
 
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CoorsLight

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sportsluvr said:
To answer your question about whether or not it is useful, I believe it is. I have compared what I consider to be professional quality resumes with what I have and it is much easier to point to an online resume(on LinkedIn) rather than to mail an outdated copy of your resume to prospective recruiters and hiring managers when asked. I now include a link to my LinkedIn resume when I respond via e-mail. That saves them the trouble of opening up a word document and sifting through it to figure out my background and experience.

A clean-looking portrait picture in my profile adds value and I have to try every trick in the book because I'm out of work now.
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If you are a job seeker, you should not only have an updated resume, you should have several versions of it. It's a must to have a comprehensive CV and a few 1-page, double sided versions, each fine tuned for different job functions you are open to.

Whenever I've hired people, I have only visited LinkedIn looking for red flags. I get resumes through recruiters, and even then I'm not going over the resumes with a fine toothed comb. I think that using LinkedIn as the primary medium to share your resume is a mistake, and could cost you a job opportunity.

Now if you have your own web domain, and have a slick way to share your background through it, that's a different story. That can be very very effective.

IMO LinkedIn is just for making the initial contact, and for that it's a very effective tool. But it can be dangerous if used unwisely.
 
CuriousMike

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Reli

Reli

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Blankpage said:
Tired of seeing junkmail from LinkedIn everytime I check email. I don't need to know someone changed their profile picture or has a new contact or gave me an enforcement when they barely know what I do. .
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Uh, adjust your contact settings? Pretty easy dude. I only get one email a week.
 
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Reli

Reli

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BTW, yes you do need a pic, if you want to be taken seriously that is. Many recruiters will flat-out ignore your profile if it comes up in a search and it doesn't have a pic. They'll assume you've either dropped out, or are some kind of loser. I have been told this by more than one recruiter.

A proper LinkedIn profile is actually more valuable than a resume, because you can put everything that's on your resume on LinkedIn, plus a few other things that can't fit on a resume, like recommendations, photos of past work, presentations, etc.
 
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SNsMoto

SNsMoto

Don't be that guy.
Definitely get a profile picture beyond your everyday 'selfie' facebook pic.

Linkedin is a powerful resource beyond the scope of job hunting. Someone who doesn't have an updated profile is behind the times and probably not plugged in to the technology field. I would know, I was in that boat before. It's a huge networking tool that is heavily used for marketing and intelligence.
 
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alien
Maybe good for techies but it's not likely to ever be a resource I'm going to use to find a job.
Although my past two employers have used it when bidding work to show who works for the company and their background. They encouraged us to keep it clean and updated but never laid down the law on that.
 
Reli

Reli

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Maybe good for techies but it's not likely to ever be a resource I'm going to use to find a job.
Although my past two employers have used it when bidding work to show who works for the company and their background. They encouraged us to keep it clean and updated but never laid down the law on that.
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It's actually more common among businesspeople than techies.

It's great to research a company and pull up everyone who works there, just to compare backgrounds, and do some informational interviewing.
 
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sportsluvr

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CuriousMike said:
Linked-In pro-tip - you can modify your LinkedIn URL to look better on your resume.
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If you fail to find a photographer, I'm an enthusiastic amateur who takes lots of landscape and bird photos. I can do a better than iPhone shot for you at a
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Greatly appreciate all the feedbook folks.
 
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