Hi everyone.
Welcome back to my channel.
I'm really happy to see you again.
In today's video I want to talk with you about how to choose the best LinkedIn profile photo.
If you've been watching me for some time now, I am a strong advocate of LinkedIn.
I think it's probably the most important tool that you can have in your toolbox if you're
currently in career transition or simply looking for another job, but you need to make that
LinkedIn profile complete and the number one thing that you need to do is to have a profile
photo.
In fact, let me share with you some statistics.
21 times more likely you will be clicked on if you have a profile photo in place and 36
times more likely you actually received messages if you have a LinkedIn profile photo in place.
So start with a photo.
It's so important, but you also need to make sure that you have the right photo.
And today I want to share with you an application out there that is free to use, that will tell
you whether you have a good photo or not.
And that application is called Photofeeler.
So let me show you how this works.
I'm going to go to a website, www.photofeeler.com and don't worry, I will put a link in the
notes section below.
And when I get here I'm on the landing page and it tells you pretty much right off the
bat what it's all about.
Find out what people really think of your photos and you can check this out on business,
on social, and even for dating.
So you have one photo out there that you put on a dating site, maybe something else that
you using for Twitter or Facebook and something else for business, like maybe a profile headshot
or I like to consider it even though it's social media, LinkedIn. You know, what's a great
way to judge if you have a good picture out there for LinkedIn.
So it's very easy to deal with.
You're just going to go ahead and get on the getting started and you're going to put in
an email address and a password or you can sign in with Facebook or you can even sign
up with LinkedIn.
And what I'm going to do here is I'm going to bring up the one that I did
yesterday, photofeeler.com I'm using a different browser and I'll explain to you why in just
a moment.
But I'm going to go ahead and get on a get started and I'm going to sign up with LinkedIn
and you're going to see that I'm already signed up with that and even have some pictures already
uploaded.
Okay,
so here are three photos that I uploaded yesterday.
The first photo is the one that's over here on the far right and he noticed that it says
it's still active.
This was the one that was free.
So let me go up and click on say new tests.
I want to upload a new photo here and I will go with say upload.
I'm going to click on something.
Actually I do have to do that.
I'm going to use this one because it's not one of the photos.
I uploaded it, but I didn't select it and I'll explain why in a moment.
But it was click on this and I can go ahead and say, "I want to check it for business purposes,"
and that's going to give me the traits.
Competent, likable and influential.
I'll hit next.
What is your professional title?
I'm gonna put career coach.
Maybe you're gonna put project manager, I don't know.
And hit next.
And so you see Karma tests. Only one Karma tests may be active at a time.
So this was the one that I did the first time around.
Now I was real curious and I wanted to check another photo and it wouldn't let me do it.
So, I actually had to buy some credits and you see that they'll sell credits in 10 credits,
which gives you 10 votes, 20 credits, 20 votes, 40 credits, 40 votes.
And I'm 80 credits, 80 votes.
And then it looks like customize your, um, your on there.
So I'm going to go back to where we were just a second ago and I want you to notice that
this first one that was free, I have 18 votes and it's still active.
It's still running.
This was what I meant by frustrating.
I could not upload or judge any other photos until this one was finished and I don't know
when it's going to be finished because it's only at 18 votes.
And what they say when you read through the frequently asked questions is that the people
that have paid their priority.
And so I went ahead and paid um, nine bucks and I bought 40 votes and I uploaded this
one and I had results within about an hour and I didn't like the results that much notices.
I had likable ability of 4.1 it was like, come on guys, I'm more likable than that,
but for whatever reason it didn't like my likability.
So then I uploaded this one and I was even less likable with us.
So the one that's still going right now active, that one has, you know, a higher likability.
But when I click on it, just to show you for fun, is that I'm just average all the way
through.
Now, if I go back and say I click on this one, which I was liking these results above
average, above average, but actually below average on my likeability.
And then taking a look at this one here.
Again, average, average and way below a average for likeability.
So I looked at these in a kind of compared to them and I says, well this one here is
pretty high.
Um, except my likeability.
And I thought, well, you know, and this was just me, this was just guessing it, but employee
around.
But I thought, what if I cropped this picture and brought it in a little bit closer?
Would I increase the likability?
Maybe if individuals saw me a little bit closer up.
And so I played around with the cropping of it and let me show you what was the result.
So check it out.
I'm actually using another, a different email account that I use to log in and just did
a freebie again in this one only has three votes, but check it out.
Like ability went from a, here's the same picture, but I just brought it in with a little
bit of cropping, went from a 4.1 to right now with 7.4 influential is still the same.
I did drop a little bit in competence, but I do expect that to go up.
Okay.
So again, I can't stress enough how important linkedin is when it comes to career transition,
looking for another job or even career development.
Like if you don't have a solid linkedin profile photo in place, you're really shortchanging
yourself.
So I hope you found this video informative and useful.
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Thanks for stopping by and I will see you in the next video.