Add additional information to your profile to help recruiters know more about you and your qualifications. Before starting this step, you could temporarily turn off sharing changes to make sure that as you are constructing your profile, your network will not be notified every time you save changes and you can turn it on once you are done with your changes. You can turn it back on once done with everything.
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You can add information to the following standard and additional sections:
Work Experience: You can use your r茅sum茅 as a starting point. Share your past employment history including company name, dates of employment, job title, description of responsibilities, and key achievements. Make sure that you include high-impact (or power) statements. They should be in paragraph form but you could use bullet points to emphasize specific key areas like achievements. If you have little to no work experience and you have had volunteer roles relevant to your field of labor or study (such as missionary service, stake auditor, or ward social media specialist) you can also add this to your work section and you can note it was a volunteer position.
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Skills: Add your professional skills to showcase to recruiters. Adding relevant skills to your profile increases the chances that you鈥檒l be found in job searches. Add at least five relevant skills you possess to each role. Take the LinkedIn skill assessment to get a badge of competence for the skill when you score in the top 30%.
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Education: Search for and add 鈥淏YU-Pathway Worldwide鈥� as your school and add any other schooling. Adding BYU-Pathway Worldwide is very important as our hiring partners will be looking for that. At the completion date section, if you are a current student, select a date that you anticipate completing school. Add key projects and outcomes of the class. For the BYU-Pathway certificate and degree outcomes, check the
Certificates & Degrees List.
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Open to Work: If you are looking for a job, let your network and/or recruiters know. Recruiters use LinkedIn to find potential candidates. You have the option to show to recruiters only or to everyone that you are "Open to Work." This setting will also help your profile appear more in recruiter search results, according to your specified job roles and preferred location.
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Customize your LinkedIn URL: LinkedIn assigns a complicated URL (link) to your profile by combining your name with a series of digits. Having a direct link to your profile is great, but it鈥檚 not very memorable to list a complicated URL on your resume. Thankfully, LinkedIn allows you to customize your URL. When customizing your URL, avoid using nicknames or complicated combinations that are not memorable. The simplest way to customize your URL is to just remove the complicated digits that were assigned together with your name.
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Additional Sections: Click on the 鈥淎dd profile section鈥� button under your profile picture, scroll to 鈥淩ecommended鈥� and click 鈥淎dd Courses鈥�, and/or 鈥淎dd Licenses & Certifications.鈥� Furthermore, after clicking 鈥淎dd profile section,鈥� you can also scroll to 鈥淎dditional鈥� and click 鈥淎dd volunteer experience,鈥� and/or 鈥淎dd languages.鈥�
Courses: Highlight relevant courses that may stand out to recruiters
Licenses & Certifications: Show your earned credentials , such as 鈥淎dministrative Assistant Certificate.鈥�
Volunteer Experience: Add all other volunteer roles here with the key responsibilities, and achievements mentioned in the description. E.g., if you served a mission or joined a community project, you can add that here.
Languages: Include English here in addition to any other languages you may speak and showcase your proficiency in each language.
