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Scott and Andrew discuss the pitfalls the come with having and maintaining a presence on LinkedIn. To provide a better experience to you, remember the..The 9 Things You Should Never Do On LinkedInHave a Blank Profile Photo, or Hide Your Photo.Have a Cheesy Head Shot, Selfie, or Cropped Wedding Photo.A Headline That Says "Seeking Opportunities"Empty Sections and No Content Under Experiences.Reaching Out To People for Connection Without Telling them Why or What for.Make your connections non-searchable.Post things way outside the purpose of your brand and presence on the platform.Ghost your connections - it's rude.Think you know LinkedIn better than someone else.Resources (including affiliate links)Anatomy of a Networking Conversation [E-Book]Connection Settings for Privacy  iTunes: Rate and ReviewRaw and Unedited TranscriptView Transcript0:00 - 05:03Welcome to job seekers radio. I'm Andrew Scott this production this podcast. This radio show is meant to provide you meaningful support to find great careers faster and that's whether you're working or not today on job seekers radio we talk about the nine things you should never do on Linkedin we have touched on this subject before but we wanted to go through a few do things just to be really clear. There are probably as many experts on how to use LinkedIn as there are users of LinkedIn we have found that there are some patterns that work and some that don't and so we want to just help people to understand some of the things that may not land the way you think they do. If you WANNA use them especially. If you want to get the most out of the platform grass possible we all know in some cases is what to do but we don't know sometimes what not to do and the first thing not to do is don't not have a profile photograph. It is vital to have a photograph and I say that because part of getting you onto the search engine optimization for lack of a better term I can't think of the terminology algorithms but yet to be to get onto people researches. You have to have a complete profile so all of the different sections are filled out that includes your photograph. Don't make the mistake of thinking you're going to be. You know maybe maintaining your anonymity if you want to be you're not discriminate my age or my ethnicity or my get. What do I do get a good photograph and put that on because that's part of the networking program that they offer they want this to be as complete a picture of you as possible and so your photograph is important it also relates to consistency sometimes they say integrity and people think I'm challenging their their ethics but integrity means that you're the person on LinkedIn that shows up to the interview that there's no surprises there so it's not some glamour shot from nineteen eighty to well and that actually brings us to our second point and that is don't use poor four photograph a cheesy pick like the selfie nineteen eighty well? If if you've got really long arms were that nineteen eighty two glamour shot is probably not the one you want to use. You want to look like the photograph okay so if it's a really old photo I generally tell people don't use anything that's more than five years old and preferably no more than two that also means that some people find it more challenging to have a professional headshot taken. I totally only get that because not everybody can afford that. That's where the self as come in the picky about the photo that goes on don't please don't use wedding photos or photos from the beach or yeah where your your gut your arm around your body and your personal please don't do that. It doesn't matter how flattering that photograph is. It's really distracting to see who did he cut out have a headshot taken. It does not have to be a studio portrait. If you can afford that that's great. It certainly isn't your your facebook photo either. Although it can be if you keep it professional if you have a parental also right is als...