Adding the LinkedIn Profile Link to your Resume
Most of us know that LinkedIn is a great tool to network and to find great jobs, but how do we add the profile link to our resume and cover letter without the extremely long profile tag. Be the first to find out how we do this.
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We found a great a way to add the profile link and included some easy-to-follow-steps. If all else fails, send us an email and we can help (or if you do not know how to set up an account, we can help as well).
Step 1
Log in to your profile and click on the Profile menu option (top left of the screen, next to Home).
Step 2
Below your LinkedIn picture, you will see a small ‘in’ logo and next to that is your LinkedIn address. It will appear as “ca.linkedin.com/in/(and your name). I used an example from my profile, and you can see from the orange arrow the location of the data. Make sure to use your address, or else prospective employers will see my profile instead of your profile.
Step 3
Copy this information by highlighting and using the Control-C command.
Step 4
Open your resume and next to your email address, type your name or “LinkedIn Profile”, or however you wish to present this, and highlight the word. Once you finish this exercise, the word you typed, and linked to your profile will look like your email address (underlined and in blue).
Step 5
With the word highlighted, left right click or use the secondary mouse option button to bring up a menu and locate Hyperlink. Place your cursor in the Link To: box and use the Control-V command to paste your LinkedIn address.
Step 6
In the Anchor box below, type this “overviewsite” and then click Okay.
Step 7
Try it out and ensure that all is linked up. It may take some time for the LinkedIn profile to load when you click on the hyperlink.
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one for future research. Terrific!
When using LinkedIn and responding to a job, they provide the ability to upload either a resume or cover letter. The system has changed from years ago when they made it easy and databased both, but how can I upload a coverletter together with my resume?
thank you
Debra
Hi Debra,
Thank you for your question. We would recommend inserting the cover letter into the resume to make a single fluid document. If you have some questions on how to do this, please email us at info@resumescanada.ca. Thank you and have a great day.
When I add the link to LinkedIn on my cover letter, the page that is displayed does not include people who have given me written recommendations. It does though, list recommendations I have given. Is there any way these recommendations that people have given me can be on the linked page?
Hello and thank you for your question. I can take a look at your resume and try the link out if you can send it through to info@resumescanada.ca
If I can see what is entered and where it’s pointed, I should be able to offer some advice.
Thanks and looking forward to assisting.
Josh
Thank you for your valuable information
Thanks
RH
I followed your steps, however, I’m receiving a message that Word is “Unable to open (URL address). Cannot download the information you requested.” Can you explain why this is occurring?
Hello,
I can try to help with this. Are you able to take a screen shot of the input details and send through to info@resumescanada.ca
Thanks
Josh
Hello to all:
As promised, I tried to find a better way of including a LinkedIn URL to the resume. As you know, the URLs can be lengthy, and generally do not fit well on the resume and cover letter document. I found a solution:
a) go to https://goo.gl/ (this is a Google site that shortens URLs)
b) copy the URL from LinkedIn, and paste into the window
c) copy the shortened URL, and paste or type on the resume
Although, a hyperlink will not work as there is some issues with Word and security, one can bypass this issue with a shortened URL.
Let me know how it works, or if you have a better fix, please advise!
My partner and I stumbled over here by a different page and thought I might as well check things out.
I like what I see so now i am following you. Look forward to going over your web page repeatedly.
Aside from the above fix, we had a viewer recently provide a workaround. You can save the document in PDF and it seems to work through that route.
Let me know if that works, and if anyone has found a good solution using Word 2011, please post, and hope we can find a solution.
Thanks!
Aside from the above fix, we had a viewer recently provide a workaround. You can save the document in PDF and it seems to work through that route.
Let me know if that works, and if anyone has found a good solution using Word 2011, please post, and hope we can find a solution.
Thanks!