Comments on: Extreme LinkedIn Profile Makeover – Fernando Arámburu

By: ihsan

ihsan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:08:58 +0000

Does anyone know how to remove a recommendation that you gave to someone? I wrote a positive recommendation for an individual and unfortunately, that person has done terrible for me since. I would hate to have my name attached to a positive recommendation that may hurt someone.

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Extreme LinkedIn Profile Makeover — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:07:22 +0000

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By: LinkedIn’s Built-In Save to PDF

LinkedIn’s Built-In Save to PDF — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:56:57 +0000

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By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:21:58 +0000

Oh… that ROCKS! What a great feature. Yeah — I’ll definitely include them then — I’ll go pull up Fernando’s and attach it too. Thanks for the info.

By: technical difficulty

technical difficulty — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:43:19 +0000

Nevermind having to buddy up to a Mac user. Print to pdf is a feature of the LinkedIn website. It prints without graphics making it smaller file size.

By: technical difficulty

technical difficulty — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:39:26 +0000

Maybe someone with a Macintosh computer who’s connected to the profilee can print the profile as a pdf. (It’s a native function of Mac OS X.) That would save you the agony of screenshots, but you’d still have to find a place to upload the file.

By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:03:42 +0000

Interesting point… if you’re not within three degrees of the person, you can only see their heading section and summary unless you have a business account.

I thought about doing screenshots, but for one thing, given that this profile is SIX screens long (as many are), I felt it was impractical.

Furthermore, I also realized that capturing the screenshots, saving them, cropping them, uploading them, formatting them, etc., would add a significant amount to the time it takes me to do each of these posts. I’m already making a big commitment doing this as a free public service, and I’ve already stepped it up to weekly instead of monthly to meet the demand. I’m not sure I’m prepared to add that much more time for the incremental benefit.

I’ll give it a try on the next one, though, and see just exactly how much extra time it takes.

Regarding the author (that’s me) replying to blog comments, I reply most of the time, especially if there’s a question. Why do you ask? Is there a comment you left previously that I didn’t reply to?

By: technical difficulty

technical difficulty — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:08:57 +0000

Aren’t there any screenshots? Unless you’re already connected to this fellow, you can’t see his profile.

Also, does the author ever reply to comments in his blog?

By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:15:40 +0000

Maybe you could just combine them into a single entry. A lot of college students have what we refer to as a “double major”. When I first started out at Rice University, I was a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I would still only list that as a single education entry.

Remember, all the searches on LinkedIn are “contains” searches, not exact matches, so it really doesn’t matter from a searchability standpoint if they’re combined or separate, and they’re much more readable combined. Same thing here as with your title at nuba.

Glad you found it helpful — let me know when you’ve made the updates — I’d love to come see the “after”.

By: Fernando Aramburu

Fernando Aramburu — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:52:35 +0000

Scott,

I’m really surprised with this post!!! I think it’s really amazing :) Thanks a lot for seeing my profile and tell me what you think I can improve and how to do it. I didnot answer before because I’ve been very busy but thanks a lot.

By the way, Chris ,thanks also a lot for your comment about Technologies.

I will definitely change some things in my profile!!!

BTW, just one thing about my studies. I study to very similar careers together at the same university in the same time. I mean, it’s something strange I guess, but it’s that way :)