LinkedIn Checklist

As part of professional endorsement you'll need a completed LinkedIn profile that highlights your skills and experiences. To achieve this step towards professional endorsement, ensure you have all the following information:

Profile Introduction

• Create a shortened, unique LinkedIn url
• Display your name on your profile, utilizing the visibility privacy settings to determine who can see your full name or other profile components
• Profile picture is clear, shows your face (ideally not a selfie), and is in front of a professional background
• Uploaded an uncopyrighted background photo that shows off your interests or personality (Canva is a great resource for this)‍
• List a reliable email address, Github link, and portfolio in contact section. Ideally privacy is set to 2nd and 3rd contacts can view them.  ⚠️ If you need to keep your privacy settings viewable only to 1st connections for safety reasons this requirement can be skipped. ⚠️
• Fill in your headline to reflect the titles you're aiming for, i.e. iOS Developer below name and included any other keywords. For example: “Data Scientist, with a passion for data visualizations and open-source code”‍. Ensure title doesn't pull from current position as LinkedIn defaults too, unless that position is relevant to the tech industry

About

• Write a minimum of 3 sentences to describe my technical skills, background, interests, passions. This section can include key accomplishments related to the roles you'll be pursuing.

Experience

• Listed all professional roles included on resume in this section, along with any that were cut from resume for space
• Wrote 2-4 power statements for each experience listed (okay to copy and paste from resume). Power statements for each experience are bulleted, not in paragraph form.
• Describe past projects in past tense and current projects in present tense
• Optional: Lambda School student experience and projects can be listed under your experience section IF you entitle the experience as: [name of program] Student (example: Data Science Student)

Education

• Listed all education and relevant certifications; including name of the educational institution, degree type, and date the degree was received or will be received i.e. May 2020 or Expected July 2025
• Properly linked Lambda School education (Lambda logo saved)

Projects featured under "Accomplishments" section

• Selected 2-3 projects to include
• Listed the title for each of these Projects
• Linked to deployed project
• Linked to a GitHub repo
• Included one sentence to describe what the project does
• Listed the tech stack used for each project
• Used 2-3 power statement bullets to highlight individual responsibilities, how the technology was used, and unique accomplishments when working on the project