WEBVTT 00:00.330 --> 00:01.110 In this video. 00:01.110 --> 00:04.370 Let's talk about how to add the skills section to your resume. 00:04.380 --> 00:07.740 And skills are most important if you're looking for a job. 00:07.740 --> 00:12.000 But even if you're not looking for a job, let's say you're using your LinkedIn to sell something. 00:12.000 --> 00:16.230 Well, the skills is something that gives you authority in a subject matter. 00:16.230 --> 00:17.550 So it's still good to have that. 00:17.550 --> 00:20.190 So it's very easy to add the skills section. 00:20.190 --> 00:25.230 You go to add the profile section right here, this big button, and the very first thing that comes 00:25.230 --> 00:26.370 up is add skills. 00:26.370 --> 00:27.450 Well, let's just do that. 00:27.780 --> 00:32.670 If you click on Add skills, it gives you options based on what you've already written. 00:32.670 --> 00:39.690 So let's say I'm going to choose blogging and I'm going to choose that I did it here when I was working 00:39.690 --> 00:43.440 for my own company, Save ADD Skill. 00:43.530 --> 00:48.300 And if a skill that isn't listed here is one that you've done. 00:48.300 --> 00:50.070 So let's say e-learning is good for me. 00:50.370 --> 00:52.950 Like, for example, e-learning implementation is good for me. 00:52.950 --> 00:53.940 So let's save that. 00:54.630 --> 01:01.590 The reason this is good is let's say that I was a Java programmer and I'm looking for a job as a Java 01:01.590 --> 01:02.480 programmer. 01:02.490 --> 01:12.030 So if I say Java here, recruiters can easily find me any in-house recruiters, any in-house recruiters 01:12.030 --> 01:18.030 or direct employers who are looking for a Java developers will immediately find me through this keyword. 01:18.030 --> 01:22.590 Now, this keyword can appear in multiple places, but certainly under skills because they can search 01:22.590 --> 01:22.980 that. 01:22.980 --> 01:31.650 So as many skills as you have, definitely add those around your subject area, especially if you're 01:31.650 --> 01:34.680 looking for a job and not necessarily using LinkedIn for sales. 01:34.680 --> 01:42.330 And then surprisingly enough, random people will start to endorse you because recommendations, that's 01:42.330 --> 01:44.780 something you often have to ask for. 01:44.790 --> 01:53.130 But surprisingly enough skills people endorse them randomly because if I scroll down to my skills section, 01:53.130 --> 01:59.970 for example here, if I scroll, scroll, scroll to my skills, you will see that I have 68 endorsements 01:59.970 --> 02:02.550 and endorsed by some people that I don't even know. 02:02.550 --> 02:04.380 Like, I don't know who this mike alternate is. 02:04.380 --> 02:05.970 It's one of my connections, but I don't know them. 02:05.970 --> 02:06.990 I never talked to them. 02:07.170 --> 02:10.470 I certainly never asked them for an endorsement. 02:10.500 --> 02:11.520 Same thing. 02:11.550 --> 02:13.620 Erin Andrews don't know who they are. 02:13.650 --> 02:14.430 Never asked them. 02:14.430 --> 02:19.950 So people actually will start to click endorse because it's very easy for people to click, endorse, 02:19.950 --> 02:20.580 endorse. 02:20.580 --> 02:29.520 And you can always demonstrate skills by taking certain skill assessments, quizzes so that you can 02:29.520 --> 02:33.390 actually demonstrate your skill even further for different kinds of roles. 02:33.810 --> 02:41.310 And that way you'll be even more attractive and stand out among all the many, many, many thousands 02:41.310 --> 02:46.650 or tens of thousands similar professionals with whom you're competing with in your field. 02:46.650 --> 02:52.950 This way you'll stand out a little more by adding a skill section and a very specific skill, and you'll 02:52.950 --> 02:57.480 stand out even more by doing these quizzes and self-assessment test. 02:57.600 --> 03:00.690 Because let's be honest, very, very few people take those. 03:00.900 --> 03:03.180 So that will immediately give you an advantage. 03:03.180 --> 03:07.500 If you're looking for work, it's not going to make all the difference, but it will certainly help. 03:07.650 --> 03:13.530 And while people will naturally visit your profile and endorse some of your skills, you shouldn't just 03:13.530 --> 03:16.020 wait for them to do that because that happens. 03:16.020 --> 03:18.360 But it happens more rarely than you'd want. 03:18.600 --> 03:25.800 So you should supplement the people naturally endorsing your skills with you, reaching out to your 03:25.800 --> 03:32.520 network and deliberately asking them to plus one and endorse your skills so that you can get those endorsements 03:32.520 --> 03:39.720 faster in case you're hoping to use those skills and the subsequent endorsements to look for a job or 03:39.720 --> 03:45.570 really anything else that you need immediately, deliberately asking your friends and family and professional 03:45.570 --> 03:49.020 connections for those endorsements will just help you get them faster.