5 Ways Employers Compare Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile

5 Ways Employers Compare Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile5 Ways Employers Compare Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile6Years ago, your resume was the one and only way for potential employers to get to know who you were professionally. As such, what you wrote on your resume was taken at its word- literally. Today, there are a plethora of ways in which an employer can check out the information listed on a resume. The big one LinkedIn. Thats why its important that the info on your resume and LinkedIn profile match up.According to a recent CareerRealism article, there are 4 Things Employers Look for in LinkedIn and Resume Comparison. We added a fifth one, too Read on to see if your resume and LinkedIn profile are in sync.The people you have in common. If youre looking for a job within the same industry as your previous work experience, chances are that your potential employer and you will have colleagues and friends in common. So if youre claiming to have oodles of experience in your career field but you dont have any of the same connections on your LinkedIn profile as your anfhrer-to-be (or worse, you have only a handful of connections, total), its a huge red flag that youre stretching the truth.Your expertise. On your resume, you wrote that youve held management-level positions at almost every place youve worked at. On LinkedIn, however, you dont make any mention of this. Superior skills deserve to be showcased, and if youre not doing so on LinkedIn (which is a huge arena to broadcast your professional accomplishments to the world), it can look shady at best.Your previous employment. Sure, you worked for X Company- but for only six months. Prospective employers will check the companies you worked for, who you reported to, what your responsibilities were, and yes, how long you worked there. Make koranvers that all of that info matches up. If you left a previous job under bad circumstances or were only there for a short amount of time, you might consider leaving it off of your resume and LinkedIn profile altogether. Just be sure that you cover any employment gaps on your resume.Your education.You wanted to go to Harvard. But so-so high school grades and a lack of funds directed you towards community college instead. Dont fudge your education or schools attended on your resume- or online. Even if you didnt score an Ivy League education, that shouldnt stop you from including where you did go to school and what you achieved there. After all, what youve done post-graduation in terms of work experience and skills learned can more than make up for iffy SAT scores.What you write in your blog posts. Savvy job seekers know that writing a blog post is a good way of attracting a potential boss. Not only does it let people learn a little more about them in a more personalized way, but it has the added effect of vouching for whats written on your resume.For example, you might write about trends in your industry. What you write will reveal your education level (i.e., is your grammar and vocabulary up to par?), your previous employers (i.e., if you reference past work experiences), your expertise (i.e., if you share how you think things should be done according to how youve done them in the past), and the people you have in common (i.e., if you reference an old boss in your blog post).When youre applying for a job, you have to know that a prospective boss will do a lot of digging online to find out as much about you as possible. While they will definitely check out the more social of the social media channels- like Facebook and Pinterest- your LinkedIn profile is perhaps the number one site they will scrutinize to ensure that your resume is real. So push yourself to the top of the interview list by making sure that your resume and your LinkedIn profile match exactly- all the time.Readers, do your resume and LinkedIn profile match? Let us know in the comments below