02 Nov, 2009
Posted by : Matt Durfee
While I’ve seen that done, I’m not a fan of it. I think it adds clutter to the resume and you want to make your resume as easy as possible for the recruiter to scan what’s most important – your career interests and a brief summary of your qualifications and job skills. If you really believe your LinkedIn profile will enhance your candidacy (perhaps because of the quality of your recommendations), you may want to place the address at the end of the resume.
Prior to launching Navigator Executive Advisors and the Navigator Institute, Matt Durfee held Senior Vice President, Vice President and executive-level Human Resources positions in a number of the world’s most admired companies including Pepsi Cola, Nestle, Frito-Lay International, Hard Rock Cafe, Bank One, Cendant, and Centex Homes. His expertise in career development & leadership transition, change management, and executive development is supplemented with extensive experience in roles ranging from the business unit level to the Board of Directors. His international corporate experience is supplemented with a two-session assignment for the U.S. Council for International Business to represent national employer interests at the European United Nations/I.L.O. in Geneva, Switzerland. Matt earned his Master’s degree in Labor & Industrial Relations from Michigan State University and subsequently completed an executive program in Financial Analysis at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
More and more, I am finding recruiters asking me if I am on Linked In. They seem particularly interested in recommendations. I beefed up the detail on my LI profile and at the end of my cover letter where I provide contact information, I have written “I invite you also to review my profile on Linked In at…”
That way if they are a LI kind of person, they can find me but it’s not in my resume.
Just thought i would comment and say neat design, did you code it yourself? Looks great.
Thanks Joana! It is a custom design created specifically to tie in with our primary website, http://www.navinstitute.com.
The designer is Alex Carvallo, which you can visit his website at http://www.alexcarvallo.com