LinkedIn Recommendations: Five Ways to Make The Most of Them

[Phil Rosenberg]

As potential employers or recruiters peruse your work experience on LinkedIn, recommendations from past and present colleagues can be one of the most helpful features to help communicate your value. Here's five tips for doing the most good for yourself with LinkedIn recommendations.

February 19, 2009 — CIO — Within your LinkedIn profile, recommendations, which you must seek out and approve from contacts of your choosing, give employers a fuller view of you as a direct report, boss, colleague, or client. They make your LinkedIn profile more dynamic and personal than the fairly static information (where you worked, what you did) that appears in your general resume.

But you can also do more harm than good with a LinkedIn recommendation. If you don't pick the most appropriate people, or if you use too many people, it might scare off potential employers who might look at those recommendations as a red flag rather than a helpful vote of confidence.

CIO.com wants to help you avoid that problem, so we spoke with online career management experts to figure out the best way to get LinkedIn recommendations and make them an asset, instead of a hindrance, at job hunting time.

For all 5 tips, and help on how to ask for a LinkedIN recommendation see:
On LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/cccjoinLI
On Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/cccjoin

Phil Rosenberg
President, reCareered
phil.reCareered @ gmail . com
http://reCareered.blogspot.com