How to Add Bullets to a LinkedIn Profile

One of the biggest problems I see in LinkedIn profiles are paragraphs. Long, boring paragraphs. No one wants to read a treatise when they go to view a LinkedIn profile, especially if they're a recruiter or potential client who wants their information quick and easy to come by.

Here is an example of what my profile could have looked like:

LinkedIn profile with paragraphs

As I always say in my classes, LinkedIn profiles should be 75% résumé and 25% marketing piece. You don't have hunks of text on your résumé, do you? So don't have them on your LinkedIn profile!

This is what my profile looks like in reality. Much better, isn't it?

LinkedIn profile with bullet points

Of course, the problem is that LinkedIn does not allow any sort of text styling within profiles, so there is no way to create headings or bullet points.

Solution? Use symbols!

There are a million symbols that are viewable on a computer screen, making up the characters that form hundreds of languages. Each linguistic character has to have a corresponding symbol within computer code, and this is where Unicode comes in. It's all very, very confusing, but just know that floating around out there are over a million different shapes that could make you a pretty nifty looking bullet point!

We here at Gong Gong Communications are working on a fantabulous website that will list ALL of these cool symbols in an easy-to-read manner, perfect for the non-techie. We hope to launch the site by Summer 2011, but in the meantime, here are some of the best bullet point characters out for your use immediately!

Bullet Symbols

Just copy and paste these bad boys right into your LinkedIn text!

○
●
■
□
▪
▫
▸
▹
►
◊
♦
◆
◇
∴

Tags: linkedin | social media