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This week’s challenge: do a spell and grammar check for your LinkedIn profile.

January 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I’m the expert at missing a letter here or there when I type, especially when the missed or wrong letter only give me another word and thus are not caught by the automatic spell checker. However, I believe that in blog posts for example, people tend to forgive misspelled words easier than on a resume.

Lately I have read a lot of CV’s and personal letters as I’m about to completely rewrite my CV and personal introduction as it has been awhile since the last time. Though many people have managed to inspire me in with their CVs and LinkedIn pages, I’m still chocked of how people seem to forget to proofread and complete a grammar check on their LinkedIn page, something they tend to be better at on their other CV’s.

I think this is because people tend to spend less time setting up their LinkedIn profile than writing a CV. Also, I think is more likely that, people review their resumes before sending them out and do not have the habit of doing the same with their LinkedIn profile page. This is unfortunate, because almost all headhunters will Google you, and hopefully find your LinkedIn page. Thus, your LinkedIn page might be a big part of your application even though if you don’t link to it.

Therefore, I challenge all of you to do a spell and grammar check to your LinkedIn profile before the weekend!

Please share if you completed the challenge and if you indeed found any spelling or grammatical errors.

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When do you say that you know something?

March 26, 2009 By 2 Comments

Ok, so the subject might have been a little vague, hopefully I will get my point clear.

When I am applying for a job and am writing my resume, I always think about my skills. Because that is what people what to know about, what can you do? At least that was the first thing I heard when I moved to Washington D.C.

Anyway, when I’m listing my skills, I often have a difficult time deciding if I can say that I really know something. What makes me know, that I have enough knowledge about something, that I can actually say that I know it?

To give you an example; I have been coding websites since I was in Junior High, I have never actually taken a class in it, and I cannot really put my hand on my exact skill frame. Basically I understand and can make changes to all web-code. However, I don’t know if enough by hart, so that I can code more advanced stuff from scratch. Does that mean that I know how to program websites? Can I put that on my resume? (Btw, I did not program this blog)

When I’m surfing the web and find very simple websites, I sometimes see if I can find out who made them. An individual usually does them, they have profiled themselves as a “web designer” and charge to make them. Without doubt, I know a lot more about programming than that. But so far, I have never written that on a resume. I would dare to say that I can code, even though I might be much better about is that many others. Because, I don’t know if I actually know it well enough?

This is just an example, and I am sure that everyone has there own experiences in the issue. But what do you do about them? I usually leave these types of skills out from the actual job application, so that I am sure that the job does not entail me doing it. If they during the interview ask me if I know web design, I can explain the situation.

What do you do? And what do you say? When do you know something?

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