The short answer to the title question is YES! Your LinkedIn profile address has become a standard item to put in your resume header, along with name, address and phone.
WHY?
90% of hiring managers now use social media, with LinkedIn as a primary resource, to research candidates. So your email address and LinkedIn URL have become more important information for employers than your street address! In fact, some people are omitting their street address from the header and including just city and state, since correspondence happens most often by email.
CRAFT YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE URL
Before you put your LinkedIn profile address on your resume or business card, make sure choose an address you want. You can edit your “Public Profile URL” through the Edit menu on LinkedIn and get rid of all those distracting letters and numbers at the end of the URL.
www.linkedin.com/in/brendabernstein
looks so much better than
www.linkedin.com/in/brendabernstein/16/b93/429
doesn’t it? And it takes up LOT less space on your resume!
Remember, if you have your LinkedIn profile URL on any documents or email signatures and then you change it, update your documents and signatures!
HOW TO WRITE AN EFFECTIVE LINKEDIN PROFILE
Whether or not you put your LinkedIn URL on your resume, hiring managers will search for you on LinkedIn. It is therefore essential that you have a LinkedIn profile and that it is written to impress.
My LinkedIn e-book, LinkedIn Power Tune-Up: 17 Expert Tips for a Highly Effective LinkedIn Profile, is just $9.95 and will help you craft a profile that keeps you in the “Yes” pile when a recruiter or hiring manager finds you on LinkedIn. The Essay Expert also offers individualized LinkedIn Profile Reviews, as well as LinkedIn Profile Construction and Rewriting, for more in-depth service.
Don’t send potential employers to a half-done or sloppy profile. Get assistance if you need it to clean up — and step up – your LinkedIn profile. Contact The Essay Expert for help.
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- Enhancing Your LinkedIn Profile for a Job Search
- Job Search and LinkedIn – Is Your Profile Visible? – From CareerBlog
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For a site called “the essay expert” that offers grammar tips, this is one hell of a sentence:
Make sure that before you put your LinkedIn profile address on your resume, or on a business card, you make sure you have the address you want.
Thanks for the catch MB! With the volume of articles I write I sometimes, much to my chagrin, pen an imperfect sentence. This one has been corrected and now says: Before you put your LinkedIn profile address on your resume or business card, make sure choose an address you want.