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The Professional Headline in your LinkedIn profile should not just be your current title. It should be a marketing slogan.

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In the upper right hand corner of your LinkedIn page, it says Search People, but LinkedIn allows you to do so much more, and it really should say “Search Profiles”. See some of what you can do in the following post.

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LinkedIn knows that Jim is a nickname for James, but it doesn’t know that Vin is a nickname for Vincent. Therefore, when you search for someone, make sure you try both nicknames and formal full names.

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What is the best way to put your maiden name into your LinkedIn profile so that people from your past can find you? Use this new feature of LinkedIn.

LinkedIn tells you not to invite people you don’t know, but they don’t make the punishment clear, and it’s harsh. If 5 people say they don’t know you, you get blacklisted, and you can no longer invite people by name.

Others have written about that part, and I will write about it in the future, but in this post, I’m going to address something no one has written about – how do you find out WHO said “I don’t know this user” to your invitation.

If you’re in HR (Human Resources), or you’re a recruiter, you are probably interested in recruiting new talent. I assume you use LinkedIn already. However, here’s a quick tip that may change the way you approach talent management.

Do you use Monster, CareerBuilder or Craig’s List to look for a job? Do you try to utilize your LinkedIn network? Want to do it faster and easier? See my 3 minute LinkedIn Toolbar video, and speed up your job search.

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Why would you misspell your last name in your LinkedIn profile? Because other people might misspell it when they look for you.

I knew that people would search for me in LinkedIn using the misspelling O’Mally (without the “e”) even though my last name is spelled O’Malley, and I still wanted them to find me. I discovered a trick that will do it, and I’ll show you in this post.