Three Bad Career Moves to avoid on LinkedIn

#1 If you find it annoying to attend a networking event
with people that bring their resume with them, consider how it appears when you
do this:

On LinkedIn, you send your resume
directly to the email address of all of your first level connections, asking
them to pass it along if they know someone who is hiring.

First of all, you haven’t even
educated the recipient of the career move you want to make or the type of
position you are looking for. You can’t expect them to take the time to open
the resume document (if they are inclined to open an attachment anyway.

If they do open the attachment, you
can’t expect them to know from reading your resume what it is you are looking
for. Most are not trained staffing professionals.

The better option is to reach out
to people ON LinkedIn, which always includes a link back to your profile. Let
them know what you are looking for and ask, if they happen to hear of anyone
hiring in that area, if they would keep you in mind to refer.

#2 If you cannot pay attention to detail; then do not say
you do. How annoyed do you get at people who send an open email message to an
entire list, all included in the TO field rather than the BCC?

On LinkedIn, when you send a
message or communication to more than one person, the box: