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Crafting your headline - LinkedIn Tutorial
From the course: LinkedIn for Designers
Crafting your headline
- [Instructor] Your LinkedIn headline should function on multiple different levels to help credential your personal brand and establish yourself as a thought leader and an experienced, talented, creative professional. Most people default to listing their current role and company as their professional headline, but in many circumstances, doing so may fail to convey your accomplishments, interests or passions. When crafting your headline, your top goal is to communicate what your passion and specialty is at a glance. Someone reading your headline should know in an instant what your current role and area of focus is. Within the design and creative fields, this is important since it is a very diverse and multifaceted industry with lots of specialties and disciplines and it is easy to get pigeonholed professionally which is bad. By the same token, being too broad and vague or trying to cover too much ground with your headline could have a negative impact with how people view your profile…
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