{"id":2102,"date":"2025-08-22T21:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:26:52","slug":"when-you-open-someones-profile-what-do-you-notice-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/when-you-open-someones-profile-what-do-you-notice-first\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Open Someone\u2019s Profile, What Do You Notice First?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For me \u2013 definitely not the number of followers \u261d\ufe0f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, having at least 300\u2013500 connections helps if you want to be active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the most important things lie elsewhere:<br>\u2022 <strong>Profile photo:<\/strong> does it look natural? Does it look like you?<br>\u2022 <strong>Background photo:<\/strong> does it say something about what you do? Or is it still just grey?<br>\u2022 <strong>About section:<\/strong> is it clear even to someone who doesn\u2019t know you?<br>\u2022 <strong>Experience:<\/strong> does it show what you actually did, not just where you worked?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire \u201cfirst impression\u201d is crucial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LinkedIn is not just an online CV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a space where people notice you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you can either make it easier for them\u2026 or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/forbes-business-fest-sk\/\">Forbes Business Fest Slovakia <\/a>with the witty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matej-cifra-48418058\/\">Matej Cifra<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;\u270d\ufe0f<br>Want more tips on how to stand out on LinkedIn? Subscribe to my Newsletter here: <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/e9vadtXb\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/e9vadtXb<\/a>. Already 7,400+ subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me \u2013 definitely not the number of followers \u261d\ufe0f. Of course, having at least 300\u2013500 connections helps if you want to be active. But the most important things lie elsewhere:\u2022 Profile photo: does it look natural? Does it look like you?\u2022 Background photo: does it say something about what you do? Or is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martapalesova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}