May 2018
Your Headline Can Be a Little Longer with This Trick
I recently changed my LinkedIn headline. It used to look like this (which is 91 characters with spaces):
Career Counselor ✶, Career Coach ✶, LinkedIn Trainer ✶, Speaker ✶, Your link to career SUCCESS!
In line with my current focus on empowering women in their careers, I spent time creating a new LinkedIn headline, but my final version was 6 characters over the limit. This had me stuck and I was taking too much time to figure out what could be cut (weeks, really months, were ticking by).
Then I read a great tip by Dennis Koutoudis in his LinkedIn Superpowers Group. As he explained, on the LinkedIn website, you are limited to 120 characters for your headline. However, if you edit it on the mobile app, you get more space. He was able to fit in one with 141 characters. I tried it and it worked. Here’s my new headline (126 characters with spaces):
Global Career Coach & Consultant 🌏, Speaker | Trainer | Facilitator 🌏, LinkedIn Expert 🌏, Empowering Mid-Career to Executive Women
It only took a matter of seconds to do this, once all the pieces were in place. However, there were necessary little steps that take more time to set the stage. First, you must download the LinkedIn App on to your phone. Second, you will need to find the best way to send your drafted sentence to your phone, so you can easily cut and paste it in. In my case, I have Office 365, so I was able to draft it in Word and send it to OneDrive to access on my iPhone.
If you have been putting off updating your headline, maybe this will be your incentive to dust it off and pick it back up again.
