We cannot hear someone using a dog-whistle. But we can sense something is awry. As analytical professionals we seek to discover progress and implementation of that path. But the moment a critical thinker senses a character weakness, a fallacious argument, an inaccurate comparison, a misstated metaphor, they edge away.

Make the reader take notice of you, in more deliberate and meaningful language, adding color and motion and reflection on your career highlights on LinkedIn.

Take the proverbial bull by the horns:

  • Tell why you took a career break, and add what it taught you, how it made you see the world better, what it added to your experience that does not occur 9 to 5.
  • Relate a demonstration of your resolve, when you failed but picked up the pieces and built a stronger edifice to proceed in your career.
  • Be vulnerable, yet real, never sappy or self-pitying, but open with an example of a time when you beat the odds. Tell us, or we will never know, this aspect of your stamina.
  • Choose high-functioning skills (never “management:” or “finance”) to focus your profile in well-chosen words, in endorsements, and in recommendations.
  • Tell stories from your POV, ask a recommender to reinforce that situation with their own  perspective on why that is admirable enough to comment.
  • Stitch the two together in your About section with another reference to that unique skill at a crucial time and refer the reader to the recommendation for more insight.

Six ways to whistle and be heard. Do not whimper but roar you skills and character strengths above the noise and be noticed for your hard-earned attributes.