You get referred with glowing remarks.

The person receiving the remarks looks you up on LinkedIn. Of course, it’s where we all go to get the best about you, as you put forth your career narrative, your best “why you do what you do,” your past making your present, your present indicating your future.

  • If they can find you. That is, if your LinkedIn URL matched your name, and the other person offers it. But what if your name is William Smith, or Allison Brown? Which are you in the LinkedIn search function? They give up and do what the car in the picture above did, a U turn.
  • If they find you, will they read into your narrative? Have you taken care to explain yourself, your ikigai, your reason for consideration? If they yawn after the first nanoseconds of your profile, a U turn. They are not coming back, you know.
  • If they read your history and decide to get a hold of you, can they find a way to connect with you in their preferred method of communication? Cell phone (call or text), email? No? Another U turn, you lost.

I cannot tell you how many people I am referred to and cannot figure out who they are on LinkedIn, cannot see the reason to meet due to boring self-description, or worse, I am ready but they give no easy or fast way to get a hold of them.

Are you one of those? Better fix that. Opportunity waits for no one these days.