Is the title a contradiction in time? Not really.

I have said here that your earlier experience makes you who you are today, and that your present indicates your future.

But how you show the past influences and skills impact your present-day capabilities often necessitates you openly speaking about your aspirations for the future. Yes, it makes sense to me.

Even if you are not a job seeker, which is perhaps the most obvious position to be in to create the past-present-future continuum in your profile, or if you are an entrepreneur, or encore careerist, you need to impress your reader that skills  you developed in the past make you hirable (however you are defining it) today, with the reader’s eye toward your mutual futures.

After all, who can tell it better than you?

And down the road, don’t you want someone who hired you to say, “Working with you is the best move I made in a long time.”

I sure do, and you too want to memorialize that sentiment in a LinkedIn Recommendation for others to read the writer’s committed words to help make you stand out. Because you did.