A cleaner look for your LinkedIn Profile
As many of you know, the Profile page is one of the most important pages on LinkedIn. It is how you present your professional background and identity to other LinkedIn members and it is what you look at first when you consider contacting or connecting with someone on LinkedIn.
Well starting today, the Profile page will have a new look. All the information & tools you’ve come to expect are still there, but the page now has a cleaner look with subtle enhancements.
Here’s what to look for:
1) A new visual presentation
We’ve taken this opportunity to clean up the presentation of the page — grouping related elements and tools, simplifying some editing prompts and tips, and making sure that the most important information stands out from everything else.
The “blue card” you’ll see at the top of every profile page is one way of doing this – serving to highlight and organize the most important profile information.
2) An enhanced Profile Completion meter
The Profile Completion meter is an ever-present indicator of the state of your profile throughout the site. Unfortunately, many of you have complained that it’s hard to know what to do to complete your profile and move that meter toward 100%. Today’s meter does showcase a suggested next step in completing a profile — but the suggested step may not always be an easy one.
The newly improved Profile Completion meter, however, shows all the steps you can take to further improve the completion of your profile (and how much each step will move the completion meter). Hopefully, the additional options will help everyone on their way to 100% profile completeness.
3) A single location for all profile tools
Each profile you view gives you a set of actions you can take in relation to that profile and the member to whom it belongs. You can contact the LinkedIn member in question via InMails and messages, leave a recommendation for one of your connections, or forward the profile.
But, did you know that you can also print out a profile? Export a profile to a PDF file? Or as a premium account holder, quickly search for background references on any member whose profile you view? Many of you were not aware of these more advanced LinkedIn tools because they were not easy to find on the profile page. Well, once again, we’ve tried to fix all that — with all the available tools now appearing in the upper right hand corner of any profile.
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We hope these changes improve your LinkedIn experience. But as with any significant change, there may be small issues to fix or adjustments that still need to be made.
So, as usual, feel free to leave us any feedback by commenting on this post or clicking the “Help improve LinkedIn” link at the bottom of any LinkedIn page.
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Jeff P October 9th, 2008
Thanks for the ongoing tweaks to keep LinkedIn looking professional and as clean as it can be considering the amount of info
dave mcclure October 9th, 2008
nice stuff :)
Kevin Cimring October 10th, 2008
Congrats on a highly effective evolution of the profile page. Its crisp, clean and even easier to use and navigate. Really excellent work, well done!
Regards
Kevin
Perdo October 10th, 2008
The new visual presentation is a step back. :(
Diane I. October 10th, 2008
I don’t like the blue box around my name and face — I think it’s… icky. Blue is not my color. As soon as I logged in and saw my profile is now blue, I got upset. I just don’t like blue and I really would’ve preferred to have no color at all, OR to be able to choose from a small range of colors — including earth tones, like the colors you can chooses for the clock on iGoogle. Can you give us a few options, including having no color at all? I really can’t stand that blue! Thanks.
Harold Cabezas October 10th, 2008
Thanks, I am really enjoying the new look. It is much better. LinkedIn.com has consistently gotten better since I joined two years ago. I am looking forward to expanding my use of it in the next calendar year.
Jeffrey L. Taylor October 11th, 2008
Excellent – easy to read, easy to navigate, pleasing to the eye and an overall terrific enhancement to LinkedIn. Thanks. JT
Jeffrey L. Taylor
http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/09/fielding-intern.html
web October 12th, 2008
Like it very much. Finally a more professional look.
paulo traça October 14th, 2008
Nice work on the new profile page. It’s clean, easy to read and navigate and has a professional look.
Congrats.
Linda Voldengen October 15th, 2008
As a new user, I was a doubtful I could get a profile up and running with my limited computer skills. The system is so helpful in directing you to each step. We are pleased with the ease of setting up and updating our profile.
Linda Voldengen
Pre-Paid Legal Services,Inc.
Independent Associate Small Business Specialist
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