Hi, this is Jeri, Career & Job Search Strategist and Founder of Your Best Designed Career,
and in this short video I'm going to show you how you can upload a background photo
to your LinkedIn profile.
When somebody comes out to your profile the first thing that they're going to see after
they see your profile picture is your background photo.
Now you can use your background photo as a way to send messaging and to brand yourself
and what you do.
There shouldn't be any doubt when somebody comes out to my profile as to what I do and
who I help and you have the opportunity to do that as well.
Let’s go over to a kind of a dummy profile that I have set up.
You can see this is the default background photo and I've seen many profiles that I don't
know if people just don't realize they can make a change there or if they don't know
how so I wanted to show you how to do that today.
Now let me show you a couple of resources where you can get free background photos so
the first one is linkedinbackground.com.
These come already sized and the size that you need by the way is 1594 times 396 pixels.
I not used this particular site much because I find it a little difficult to navigate.
I do have a couple others that I prefer.
The first one is pexels that's pexels.com the next one is pixabay that's pixabay.com
and then third one is unsplash.com and I will put links for all of these down in the description
but just to kind of walk you through one of these let's hop over to pexels and you can
search for whatever you want and for background photos You can use really any type of photo
that you want as long as it's congruent with your messaging.
So for example if you are my dummy profile is in accounting so let's just see what we
can find on that so you've got all these photos to choose front and these are all license
free, free photos.
Now the one thing that you want to make sure you're doing when you're looking at these
photos is pick one that's going to be a landscape oriented for example this one here probably
isn't going to be the best it is landscaped but you're looking for as close to a panoramic
picture as you can so I'm just going to select this one and then you'll just download it
and I'm going to save it to my computer and that's it.
Okay so let's go over and we're at the profile and we're going to click on this pencil here
and this one here and then we will select the photo that we just downloaded.
And you've got all kinds of options here you can use filters if you want you can make adjustments
to the saturation the brightness or you can crop it if need be but I'm going to just go
ahead and click apply, okay then we can click save and now instead of that boring blue default
background photo we have a meaningful business-related, accounting-related background photo for this
profile.
Now you saw how fast and easy it was to do this so go ahead and if you don't have one
get your background photo up in your profile.
Now if you also need help figuring out some of the other things you need to be doing in
LinkedIn get my free checklist or if you're ready to go a little bit deeper into LinkedIin
I do have a 53 page e-book that is going to walk you through everything you need to do
to get your profile set up as well as what you need to do on LinkedIn in order to increase
your job opportunities.
I'll put the link for that below in the description as well.
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See you next time.