LinkedIn Profile Character Counts for 2020. All the Numbers and Guidelines You Need to Know For Your LinkedIn Profile.

Whether you’re happily employed in your current position, actively job searching, or somewhere in between, you need to have a LinkedIn profile in 2020. Clients, hiring managers, prospective employers, prospective employees … anyone who might want to network or know more about your business — or you — will be looking on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network online. Even if you have profiles on other social media accounts, as a professional, LinkedIn is a social media platform on which you need to be spending time.

To have a solid presence on the platform, you should have as many fields as possible filled in and also have good quality pictures on your profile. These might seem like obvious LinkedIn tips, but they are worth delving a bit deeper into.

As you plan out what you’re going to be writing in your profile and are choosing a profile photo and cover picture, you should be basing your draft content and your photo choices on the guidelines that LinkedIn provides for its platform. The last thing you want is a profile picture that’s blurry, or sentences that don’t sound quite right because you met the character count, lost track of time, and just wanted to hit save and be done with your profile. It’s 2020 —…