A presentation about how to update your LinkedIn profile. Mainly meant for the newly graduated college student studying UX design or Web Development. Check out my article about it here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6451481473437569024 And check out my medium publication here: https://medium.com/restless-kitchen

1. H O W T O M A K E A K I C K A S S
LINKEDIN PROFILE

2. B E F O R E W E G E T S T A R T E D . . .
WHY IS LINKEDIN EVEN IMPORTANT?
CONNECTIONS JOB SEARCHING RESUME

3. The bio
• Grab their attention
• Tell a story (but not your whole life story)
• Describe your job
• Explain your passion
Above the fold
Below the fold
• Link your medium/portfolio website
• Go more in depth for why you are a UX designer
• Your goals as a UX designer
• Mention school
• Other areas that give you an edge

4. I am a UX designer living in…
With a passion for…
I love to create…
I am excited to expand on my skills…
I am eager to learn more about….
When I am not designing, I spend my time….
I am currently working on….

5. Work experience
• Add work that is relevant to your field (but that doesn’t
necessarily mean UX only)
• List out the kinds of projects you worked on and what skills
you used
• In the first bullet summarize your main job and what the
company does
• Link relevant articles from your portfolio to the job
• Use bullets or dashes to separate items. Don’t write in
paragraph form

6. Profile pic + header
• Make it professional yet personable (aka smile!)
• It’s just you, not you and your cute dog
• No phone selfies
• Choose a picture for your header (unsplash)
• Use the header as a place for your personal logo
• Show off photography skills
• Don’t put people in it, or yourself.
• 1584px x 396px

7. Education + volunteer
• Add in your higher education (Do not add your high school!!)
• List your degree and emphasis
• Optional add of your GPA
• Put your intended year of graduation (if you haven’t graduated yet.)
• “classwork included:” with a list of things you have learned or taken
classes focused around.
• Add any places you have volunteered: LDS mission, service work, any
clubs you helped/lead, career fairs, speaking roles, work front,
ANYTHING YOU DID THAT YOU DIDN’T GET PAID FOR that is relevant.
• Give a good (fluffy if you have to) description of what you contributed
or did

8. Skills and endorsements
• Add in skills you have relevant or useful to the field. (No I can eat 100
hamburgers in an hour type thing.)
• Ask others to endorse your skills, and offer to endorse their skills in
return.
• Ask people who have actually witnessed the skill to endorse.
• Recommendations are the same boat, ask someone to write you one,
and offer to write one back.
• Offer to give them a suggestion for what to write.
• Ask co-workers, other interns, peers, and mentors for
recommendations.

9. N o w t h a t y o u h a v e a k i c k a s s p r o f i l e
Time to get connected