Here are 5 tips which will help you boost your LinkedIn profile!

1. Update Your Current Responsibilities

Have you just switched jobs and been so busy getting adjusted that you forgot to update your profile? Or, maybe you took on a few new tasks that your contacts should know about. Either way, make sure your current position is up-to-date with your title, location, and responsibilities. After all, that’s one of the first things people look at on your profile.

2. Filter Through Your Skills and Endorsements

Remember when you clicked “add” to every endorsement someone sent you because you were so excited people thought you were awesome at, well, anything? As great as that may have been for you, some skills and endorsements just shouldn’t make the cut. Think of this as your time to guard the gate.

3. Customize Your LinkedIn URL

Just like any other social network, you’re given a very long (and impersonal) URL link when you first join. While it doesn’t hurt you to keep that one, it also doesn’t help. After all, what’s more appealing: Kaitlyn0121912 or KaitlynRussell? So, change your current URL to best reflect your professional, branded self.

Here’s how to do it in three steps:

• Click on profile
• Click edit profile
• Click edit right under your photo

4. Update Your Photo

You know the importance of your LinkedIn photo. It needs to show that you’re confident, successful, and trustworthy—you know the drill. So, as hard as it may be, now is the time to delete that half-cropped photo of you at a party, or the selfie (yes, even if you look great) and get professional.

5. Rewrite Your Headline

Here’s a well-known fact: Your headline is one of the first thing people when they view your profile. Here’s a not-so-well-known fact: Every time you change your current position or company, LinkedIn defaults your headline to your updated title. As you might guess, that’s not the best way to attract recruiters. Instead, you want a compelling and unique headline to make you stand out from every other user on the site.