Keep your shirt on: Dos and don'ts for that long-overdue update to your LinkedIn profile

First Hand: Leslie Hughes, LinkedIn profile writer, offers advice on how best to showcase your accomplishments Leslie Hughes, LinkedIn Specialist and Profile Writer, has some tips on what works on LinkedIn profile. Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg If you haven’t updated your LinkedIn since 2015 — seriously, I mean me, I just looked it up — know that professionals like Leslie Hughes, LinkedIn specialist and profile writer, now exist to perfect your online CV with the same careful curation you’d use for eHarmony. But what’s really involved in a LinkedIn glow up? First Hand reached out and asked her. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. FP Work: I can’t even believe how long it’s been since I updated my profile. Years and years. Leslie Hughes: You are not alone and that’s why I love doing what I’m doing! Which, if I were to explain it simply at a party, which I never do, I’d say I help empower professionals and brands optimize their stories via social media channels. Really I make you look better on LinkedIn, because lots of people are just like you, that’s totally normal. Leslie Hughes, LinkedIn specialist and profile writer.…
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