Your brand is not "I am punctual and efficient in my tasks." Hold out for stronger recommendations than that!
That would be a great recommendation if you were sixteen years old and had just finished your first part-time work assignment, but it's not a good recommendation for a grown-up Purchasing Agent to display on their LinkedIn profile. "Sally always arrived at work on time, and was efficient in her tasks." This is a recommendation for a Purchasing Agent: Some of these recommendations are so bad you wouldn't want them on your profile!
That's because they accept any old recommendation that anyone writes for them. No one leaves negative recommendations on LinkedIn as far as I know - and if someone tried to leave you a negative recommendation you wouldn't have to publish it on your profile - but plenty of people have sub-par recommendations on their profiles anyway. I'm all for authenticity but do these folks understand that anyone can read what they've written? Get rid of anything mean-spirited on your LinkedIn profile if you want to viewed as a mature professional. It's astounding how some LinkedIn users leave horrible, hateful comments and say awful things in their published blog posts. Just make sure it's a head and shoulders shot that lets us imagine that you could hold a job. You can have your friend take a picture of you with their phone. You don't need a studio head shot for your LinkedIn profile. Too many LinkedIn profile photos are blurry, in weird settings, or just bad photos that don't represent their owners as professional people. Here are five things for every LinkedIn user to take out of their profile right away: You don't have anything to remove in your LinkedIn profile Jeannette, but lots of LinkedIn users do. That's a huge mistake! When we can't see your face, we instantly imagine you looking like Jason in "Friday the 13th" or the Phantom of the Opera. The most common mistakes people make in their LinkedIn profiles are to leave most of the fields blank, use a generic headline like "Unemployed" or "Seeking new opportunity" (no one is going to click to view your profile with such a bland, undifferentiated headline on it) and to leave a blank space where their profile photo should be.
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