Why would you choose to do this on your LinkedIn profile? If you did this, you most certainly wouldn’t be the person chosen for the opportunity.
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If you were in a room full of people, you wouldn’t be able to site there with a logo over your face, or have your kids sitting there on your behalf. The whole point of LinkedIn is to have a public representation of why you are the best candidate for that new job, contract, or other opportunity. Regardless to whether this is a valid way for someone to look at you, you can avoid this altogether by simply getting a friend to help you generate and upload a properly sized photo. It also may signal to prospective opportunities that you’re not capable of working with technology, or not resourceful enough to work around it.
As you can tell, this doesn’t represent you well. This results in a background being applied to your photo. In other cases, LinkedIn realizes that your uploaded photo is too small. This results in a highly distorted version of the photo, like the first example. Upsizing a photo is when you make a photo larger than the actual dimensions of the photo.
In either case, it’s a simple fix here to prevent people from passing this kind of unfair judgment on you. Having a blurred photo signifies to people that you either don’t care how your profile appears, or you’re too lazy to make it any better. You’ll notice though, that these photos would be pretty good if they weren’t blurred. In most cases, I’ve found that people that have blurry photos simply don’t like their pictures taken – but a blurry photo and an old photo will have a similar result. It should go without saying, but a blurry photo is not a good way to represent who you are. (Even if it is silly for them to do so.) Keep your best foot forward and have a current photo on your profile instead. The moment they meet you, the last thing you want is them questioning your integrity simply because you don’t look like your photo. After weeks or months of hard work online, you finally get the chance to work with them and you need to meet face-to-face. Imagine working with a prospective client over the phone. A good one means one that actually reflects what you look like today. You don’t have to like your photo being taken, but you DO need to have a good one on your profile. I couldn’t find any statistics on it, but I would guess that there’s somewhere around a 70/30 split with people that like their photo taken. Not having an updated photo also is a subtle queue that you’re not okay with having your photo taken. However, if it appears to be outdated, it’s a safe assumption for one to make to assume that your entire profile is also outdated. It’s not always clear if a photo is actually old, or if it is simply poorly composed in some way (see below). Above all, it’s your opportunity to stand out. It helps people understand how much “attention to detail” you practice. It shows how much you care about how you’re perceived online. Like with everything else that you do and don’t do, the effort you put in here will reflect directly upon you and your character. It’s up to us to tell LinkedIn how we want to be represented. Unfortunately, LinkedIn can’t read our minds and it doesn’t know what we look like. Unless you don’t need new opportunities, or your brand speaks for itself (e.g., world famous actor, CEO, or author), you should probably apply the tips here carefully.
(However, if you feel this way, this should be a clear indication that you’re falling into one of the categories below.)ĭon’t tale these tips lightly. It’s not my intent to insult anyone here - only to help. I’ll obviously not be exposing names or anything, but if you find yourself here and would prefer to not be highlighted here, please just let me know and I’ll remove your public photo from my site. They are all professionals, including: managers, executives, owners, salespeople, marketers, customer service representatives, and others. I’m using actual profile images that I’ve found on LinkedIn, in my “People You May Know” listing.
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You need to carefully consider how you update your profile on LinkedIn, beginning with your profile photo. However, as we continuously point out on this site, LinkedIn is not like every other social network. You post status updates, and like and/or comment on updates by others. You add details about yourself, upload your preferred photo, and connect with other people. In many ways, LinkedIn is just like every other social network.
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