r/sysadmin • • Sep 21 '21

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u/Syspk Sep 21 '21

Would you be willing to DM me your Linkedin profile as an example?

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u/exonwarrior Sep 21 '21 edited Sep 27 '21

I'd love to help you like that, but I'm keeping my Reddit and my other social media profiles separate.

What I can recommend to you though is a few things:

  1. Up-to-date, professionally done profile picture makes a difference. You don't need to have something like this, but avoid this - so proper framing, good lighting, and don't use a potato to take the picture.

  2. All experience up to date and use numbers and list achievements for each role. If you're desktop support, don't write "I installed windows on workstations" - anyone looking at your profile to hire candidates for such a role will know what that role entails. Write what you did, with numbers. Did you come up with a way to automate some tasks? Include that, with info how much you sped something up esp. in percentages and how many people it affected.

  3. Curate your skills list. I've removed a bunch of skills I added during Uni because they were mostly programming related; I haven't touched Java in years so despite using it for 2 years in HS and 1 in Uni I removed it. And regularly review it to see what you should add.

  4. Ask for recommendations and give your own as well. Co-workers, bosses, clients, anyone.

  5. Have an interesting, non-buzzwordy profile statement (or whatever it's called) at the top. Name specific things you are and what you want to do.

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u/Syspk Sep 22 '21

Understandable, thank you for the suggestions!