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LinkedIn tip #6: Skills & endorsements

Bethany Wallace AvatarBethany Wallace
March 14, 2016


How much thought have you put into listing your skills on LinkedIn? When endorsing others for their skills and seeking endorsements for your own skills, do you simply click a few plus signs and move on, hoping to appease your contacts, or do you take a more thoughtful approach?

Whether you’re new to LinkedIn or have been a user for years, expert Chaim Shapiro, Assistant Director of Career Services at Touro College and award-winning social media consultant, will help you improve your LinkedIn profile while searching for jobs and networking online.

This short video and article is part 6 in a 10-part series, Top 10 LinkedIn tips with Chaim Shapiro, for college students, recent graduates, and job seekers.

Chaim Shapiro is hosted by College Recruiter’s Content Manager Bethany Wallace; Shapiro provides tips for listing skills on your LinkedIn profile and for seeking endorsements and endorsing others.


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When listing skills on LinkedIn (you can list up to 50 skills and reorder the skills in whatever order suits you best), you choose whether to allow connections to endorse you or not, whether to include you in endorsement suggestions to connections, and whether to show suggestions to you to endorse your own connections. Shapiro warns against endorsing everyone for every skill listed on their profiles. “Endorsements mean something to me, and I stand behind my endorsements,” Shapiro asserts.

Shapiro suggests “monetizing endorsements” by reaching out to your contacts after they endorse you for particular skills and offering to help them (using that particular skill).

Shapiro also reminds viewers to order their skills starting with skills they want their connections to view them, starting with their most important skills and ending with the more mundane skills.

For more of Chaim Shapiro’s top 10 LinkedIn tips, subscribe to College Recruiter’s YouTube channel, follow College Recruiter’s blog, and follow College Recruiter on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Chaim Shapiro, M.Ed. is the Assistant Director of Career Services at Touro College, a freelance writer, public speaker and social media consultant specializing in LinkedIn. He has presented his popular LinkedIn Workshop at National Conferences, Universities, Public Libraries and for communal organizations across the country. Chaim earned a Master’s Degree in College Student Personnel from Loyola University, Chicago, and also studied in the Institutional Leadership and Policy Studies Ph.D. program at the University of California, Riverside Graduate School of Education. He has more than 12 years of experience working in college administration.

 

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