Expat Denmark

Personal Branding: “Lækker på linkedin”

Your title:

  • Show off – does it prevent people from contacting you.
  • Does it match the positions you are aiming for

Contact info: 

  • Place your phone number in the header!

Summary & interests:

A short description of your background, your personality and your interests – remember SHORT. It should include values, results, ambitions etc. 

Interests could be:

  • Business development
  • change management
  • lean
  • channel management
  • financial reporting
  • people management
  • implementation of value
  • sourcing

Specialties (search criteria):

The purpose is to be “foundable”  fill in search criteria – Focus on facts, write as many buzz words as possible.

Inspiration:

  • education,
  • systems you have worked with,
  • business,
  • certificates,
  • experiences,
  • e.g. financial controlling,
  • channel management
  • private label
  • financial reporting
  • change management
  • market benchmark
  • strategic sourcing

CV:

  • Important to remember all jobs
  • A short description of responsibility, primarily assignments and your results

Education:

  • Remember the complete title

References:

  • An extremely good “signal værdi” – can be former managers, partners, colleagues etc. 

 Groups:

Participate in as many relevant groups as possible (remember relevant in relation to what you want to work with) Max 50.

Remember to be active, blog, comment on the topics that you find interesting = Branding.

Jobs:

 You can follow specific company sites on LinkedIn  – it will become more and more common to advertise jobs on LinkedIn.

Expand your Network:

  • You should have min. 200 connections.
  • Headhunters/ researchers are always interested in contacts.
  • Search for executive search, researcher