…so the song goes….and in your readers’ eyes too, as I will amend it.

Stay the course on your LinkedIn profile.

Resist the temptation to veer to the newest, coolest, everyone’s-doing-it add-on that LinkedIn tempts you with, when your profile is not up to warp speed.

You owe yourself, and to present yourself, the best profile, said the best way you know how, with lots of “whys,” in rich narrative and illustrative multimedia graphics, to entice the reader to want to know more about you as they read down-down-down your profile. Words, color, action, and motion, but in your profile first and foremost.

Please leave for last, after you perfect your profile, all the bells and whistles like carousels and polls and chatter about AI, the heart-wrenching tales of sickness and death; yes, you may feel compelled, but are no way required, to involve those for your posts.

There I said it.

I assure you while these catchy posts are important to you, they are less so to others. And will be forgotten in the snowstorm of snowflakes that fall upon those posts quickly over time.

So think clearly and for the longer game. Your career narrative told in your personal LinkedIn profile endures, yours alone, in your own words, reflecting your persona.

Clarity of vision, past the smoke that conceals and be yourself on your personal profile. Save the rest for after you have finished that arduous yet essential task of perfecting your career narrative.

Clarity of purpose, why you do what you do. For you to tell and all to enjoy. And remember. No smoke and mirrors to obscure.

Agree? Let me hear back from you on this.