LinkedIn Work Experience Details to Match Job Board Resume/CV?

Submitted by Ron Kang
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Career Management

Should the LinkedIn work experience section be a copy and paste of the same material from the resume/CVe one posts on job boards?

I have listened  Getting Started with LinkedIn Parts 1 and 2 and found it very useful, and M&M speak about how each job should start with a prose responsibilities paragraph followed by accomplishment bullets on LinkedIn, as is the case for resumes/CVs. Should it include the same details and quantified metrics as one's resume/CV, or should it be less detailed so there is more to talk about at interviews?

Thank you.

Submitted by John Rosenau on Monday November 21st, 2011 2:56 pm

LinkedIn will get you contact; but the recruiter / hiring manager will still want to see your resume and will use that in the interview.  I find that when looking at LinkedIn profiles, I tend to get lost in the long ones (including mine - which I'm working on).  I would update your profile to be the summary responsibilities for each position and then maybe a couple of the biggest accomplishments to get interest in your results.  Pick the highest impact.  I think the prose section should be the same as on the resume.
John

Submitted by Ron Kang on Wednesday November 23rd, 2011 3:09 pm

Thank you John. I'll keep the prose matching my CV and may add an accomplishment bullet or two