Linked In as Career Management Document

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
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Career Management

The 2009 – Downturn - Annual Resume Update podcast triggered a thought... and it hardly hurt.  So far.

Is using a Linked In profile as a career management document a reasonable thing to do?

It would reduce the number of places I feel a need to update, by at least one.  It would provide more information for anyone that visited my profile.  Some of that information would be off target for my current goals, but is that a danger? 

I would not use Linked In as a resume, nor link to it from a resume, but it seems to me that it could be very useful to make it the place that gets updated quarterly and then used as the source for a resume when one is needed. 

Submitted by Tom Hausmann on Saturday June 27th, 2009 5:27 pm

No. Do not use LinkedIn as your career management document.
Over time your CMD will exceed several pages...and you whittle it down to a presentable resume.

Submitted by Tom Waltz on Monday June 29th, 2009 11:32 am

If LinkedIn had an easier way to transfer from their site to a Word file, maybe.
Otherwise, you would have to copy/paste, and reformat everything.

Submitted by Gary Slinger on Monday June 29th, 2009 1:16 pm

You can readily export your whole LinkedIn profile, including the recommendations to a PDF.  If you're running anything other than a basic PDF reader, it's then a trivial export to Word or other format.
G.