LinkedIn Skills: An Easy Enhancement

This is a gimme: potentially, recruiters, employers, and our potential client and business partners may be searching for us through our self-declared LinkedIn “Skills,” once logged in to your LinkedIn account.

Skills is beta, you find it here:

At first we come to this, and must get started with a skill choice to begin “hopping” with:

The Blog Promotion Case

I searched “blog promotion” and was quickly put on to “blog marketing,” from which it is a single click at the bottom of the skill-defining box to add the skill to my profile. Oh, you know I did. After all, I get eyeballs on blogs like no one…

Note that under the definition box, LinkedIn users self-declaring themselves on the skill searched appear. But then, to the left is where similar skills are suggested, so you can easily one-click to add a skill to your profile, but then “hop” to other suggested similar skills.

Four LinkedIn Skills questions to consider

1. What is the most unprofessional, non-Linkedin skill you find, if you go “hopping?”

2. How long do you find it takes before we appear amongst those listed under the definition box – as key people for the skill searched?

3. Based on our answers to open questions in LinkedIn Answers, we earn “Expertise.” Why the heck don’t they develop this much more, and let us earn our expertise – to go into the searchable “Skills” section – rather than simply trusting us on everything we choose to be found by…?

4. Wouldn’t you trust that more than he self-declared skills? I mean, being able to earn a “best answer” take at least a little more than a single click within “Skills, right?”

I’ll leave you with my Skills odd-skill find. “b-boying.” Yes, it is defined as a cornerstone skill of “hiphop.” (Do either of those need ~~capitalization~~?)

This one is also a good one for LinkedIn gymnastics: “Get LinkedIn in Front of More Eyes“

About Saul Fleischman

Working with social web apps developers on getting things made: my role tends to be functionality ideation, user experience, and also, marketing communications and community development.