Don’t know what to write in your LinkedIn summary? Then you’ve found the right video.
Today you will discover HOW TO WRITE a magnetic LINKEDIN SUMMARY to attract new business partners, customers and even recruiters to your LinkedIn profile.
LinkedIn describes the profile summary as the place to write information about your mission, accomplishments, and goals.
In reality the summary is one of the best opportunities you have to tell your unique story.
It’s your opportunity to be memorable and to stand out from the crowd. You can’t leave it blank.
You can’t!
I really don’t understand why, but this section is one of the most underestimated by LinkedIn’s users.
So, if you fill it in the correct way, you can make it an impactful one! Here’s how.
First of all:
Why are you writing the summary?
Are you looking for a new job? Are you looking to engage with new prospects and customers?
Are you looking for a new supplier? Whatever you are doing, finding a new job or building your career, you must have a clear idea about who are the people you want to have conversations with.
What makes you remarkable, interesting and valuable to your connections?
Note down on a piece of paper your strengths, your aspirations, the things you are good at, the problems you are able to fix.
Avoid the most common and generic descriptors like creative, motivated, organized, effective, experienced, team player; because they are so over-used, they’ve become boring.
Be creative! You are unique!
Once you have a list of things you want to communicate based on your objectives, it’s time to share them with your audience by telling a story.
People love to listen to stories. Stories have a way of helping us remember people and information.
But be honest; use your list of points to create a story that reflects your personality and your aspirations.
You can find a lot of online resources about storytelling, but let me share an example:
Instead of writing “I travelled for work to Sudan, Somalia and Libya”, you can write: “I’m the man who got things done in places nobody wanted to go. I managed profitable business in Sudan, Somalia and Libya”.
In any case, you must be able to engage the reader in the first line. If you don’t hook your audience in the first 3 seconds of your summary, you will probably lose them completely.
Writing a good story is not enough. Draw your readers in with these few tricks:
Once you have completed your summary, send it to a good friend for review.
Your LinkedIn profile deserves to be free of mistakes, typos and grammatical errors. It’s better to have no summary than to have an ugly one!
Once your summary has been published, your job is not finished. You have to run periodical reviews so your summary always reflects your current situation.
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