Your LinkedIn Photo Should NOT Have This!

👀 Looking for a job?... Better check your LinkedIn photo!!

🎯 A picture tells a thousand words.

🚗 GET OUT OF YOUR CAR. And your classroom.

😉 Yes, you heard me. Ok, I don't mean literally get out of your car, I'm talking about your LinkedIn photo.

😕 Seriously... working hours on your resume, but not taking 15 minutes to take a better LinkedIn photo!?

❌ Selfies in the car are NOT great LinkedIn profile photos.

I see them so often that it deserves repeating.

Selfies in the car are NOT great LinkedIn profile photos. Ever!!

❌ And if you are trying to get out of your classroom, then why is your LinkedIn photo of you in the classroom? Help someone to see you where you want to be.

✅ Just you. Unlike other social media, your LinkedIn profile photo should not have anyone else in the photo.

❌ Please, no partners, children, families, pets. This is all about you. 🤩

✅ The photo should have been about you to begin with. Not a photo you found in your iPhone and cropped everyone else out of.

❌ Please don't crop yourself out of a larger photo, where we can see parts of the other person (extra arms 😜) Take the effort to take another photo.

✅ Be mindful of the background. Use a clean wall, a muted outdoor background, or you sitting at a desk. Have good lighting.

❌ OMG- I can't tell you how many LinkedIn profile photos I have seen in bathrooms (really), restaurants, cluttered rooms, at a party, you get the idea.

✅ Please, stage the shot. Make it look good. Clean the area.

✅ Have someone take the photo for you. It doesn't need to be professional. Smartphones take fantastic photos. Just make it intentional. Not an afterthought.

✅ Dress professionally. We always make a better impression when dressed professionally. I highly recommend wearing a blazer. 🙌

✅ This is the marketing presentation about YOU! Make it your best!

✔️ SMILE. Now go take a great photo! 😊

💗And if you’re looking for more advice on how to help your LinkedIn profile stand out in the BEST WAY, download my free LinkedIn guide. Linked below.👇

❤ Cindy