Create a Professional Bio That Highlights Your Career Achievements
Building a solid professional bio is one of the best ways to improve your career. It gets you thinking about the skills you want to highlight and gives you a kind of “elevator presentation” to send to new contacts.
Meredith Fineman, writing for the Harvard Business Review, outlines what you need to think about as you improve your professional bio.
- Be consistent. Create one bio that you can use across all your profiles. You will need to edit it for some places, such as social media, and have a longer version for other purposes, such as speaking.
- Keep your information up to date. Make a reminder on your calendar every few months to check the accuracy of the information.
- Add links to strengthen your digital presence. These links may include your personal website, your online portfolio of your work, and your social media profiles.
- Use an active voice to draw attention to your accomplishments. This includes avoiding verbs like “trying” or “trying” to say what you are doing.
- I include one or two calls to action. Your professional bio is your chance to direct people to your most important projects or work.
The constant search for career opportunities can be exhausting. Make it a little easier and take the time to create a great, polished bio that you can use to passively promote yourself – from using it on social media to creating your own nameplate website . For more information on each of the above elements, check out the full post at the link below.
What Your Professional Bio Needs To Get Attention | Harvard Business Review