Hint – writing your LinkedIn Experience Section is much like writing your resume bullet points. In fact, it’s all the same. We recommend taking the bullet points straight from your resume and copy pasting them into the LinkedIn Experience section.
We’ll be covering the what, why, and how regarding your LinkedIn Experience Section. Keep reading to learn everything you need to craft yourself a compelling LinkedIn Experience Section on your profile to improve the chances of recruiters and hiring managers reaching out to you for job offers.
What is the LinkedIn Experience Section
The Experience section on your LinkedIn is what summarizes what you did regarding your employment. The formatting should be the similar as to how a resume experience section is written.
Employers will scroll over this section to see a combination of:
- Where you worked
- What you did
- Skills that you had
- The results and accomplishments you had
- Standards, specifications, and other related things that you may need to be familiar with
Often times, employers will look for a certain employer or job title in your experience section. This is where big name companies or valuable degrees such as STEM, economics, or CS comes into play.
How to write LinkedIn Experience Section
The experience section in your LinkedIn should be written in bullet point form. It should be separated by the employers that you’ve had in chronological order.
The experience is broken up by employer and written in bullet point form as shown above.
Make sure to highlight things in your experience section such as:
- Keywords
- Software
- Skills
- Quantitative results & accomplishments
- Macroeconomic relevance such as industry/applications/market sector
Where to find LinkedIn Experience section in LinkedIn Profile
The Experience section of your LinkedIn profile will be found further down below the LinkedIn About section and the LinkedIn Activity section of your profile.
Go to your LinkedIn profile page and scroll down below and you’ll find the LinkedIn Experience section as shown below:
How to edit experience section in LinkedIn
To edit the experience section in your LInkedIn profile, click on the edit button where the experience section of your profile is.
You will need to click on the “pencil” icon to edit this section.
Once you do so, click the “pencil” icon on whichever section you will need to edit as shown below.
To make it easy for recruiters and hiring managers to scan your experience, make sure that you write your experience in bullet point form like a resume as shown below.
LinkedIn will automatically sort the employment information from most recent to most oldest in order.
LinkedIn Experience Section Example
This is the example of a Mechanical Engineer who has had a career in:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Test Engineering
- Applications Engineering
Use the above as a guideline to draft bullets for your LinkedIn profile. Notice that the above are a general set of bullet points to use for product design, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or test engineering jobs.
To further strengthen the bullet points on your LinkedIn profile, we recommend adding quantitative results and accomplishments on your resume. Recruiters and hiring managers are data and metric driven so as a result, make sure to include numbers. Companies love it when they see numbers on your resume.
Why is it important to have an experience section on LinkedIn?
The LinkedIn experience section is important to have on your profile because this is what shows your actual value and accomplishments that you’ve had over your career. Employees will need to go through a vetting process such as job interviews and background checks. To demonstrate to employers that you’re legit on your LinkedIn profile, you will need to make sure that your experience shows you have the skillset and knowledge base to perform the job.
One other thing to note – don’t be too afraid to apply for jobs that you’re not qualified for. Even if job descriptions have bullets that don’t resonate with you – apply for them anyways. Chances are, they’re not even looking for employees that can do everything, but just wanting to capture a wide base so that they can evaluate from a wide range of candidates with a diverse skillset.
Closing Thoughts on Writing a Good LinkedIn Experience Section
The key to writing a good LinkedIn Experience Section is very similar to writing a good experience section on your resume.
Your bullet points for a good LinkedIn Experience Section will need to be:
- Clear and concise
- Detail Macroeconomic relevance and accomplishments
- Showcase key factors such as keywords, technical skills, and accomplishments
Many people feel weird when it comes to talking about themselves or writing about their accomplishments.
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FAQ About LinkedIn Section
The LinkedIn Experience section on your profile is that section that showcase your individual tasks, results, and accomplishments you did in your previous job. You’re going to put what you did, what skillsets you used, software, along with your accomplishments.
Scroll down or hover over to the Experience section of your LinkedIn profile. Then you will click on the pencil icon to make edits as needed for your profile. Make sure to write the bullets in your LinkedIn profile in bullet point form.
We highly advise you to fill out your experience section on your LinkedIn profile as best as you can. This will be key information that recruiters and hiring managers will be pulling up prior to contacting you for an interview or phone screen.
This is where recruiters and hiring managers will want to take a look regarding what you did, what you accomplished, and what you bring to the table. Make sure you fill this section out as you could be missing on potential job opportunities if you didn’t.
About the author
Kazuyoshi Fujimoto, PE
Founder | Engineering Career Coach | Principal Mechanical Engineer
Kazu oversees all of ultmeche’s engineering services. He provides consulting such as resume reviews, rewrites, mock interviews, and all services career related. Additionally, Kazu performs consulting work regarding Oil & Gas, Automotive, and Aerospace & Defense. Kazu is licensed as a professional engineer in the state of California and has 9+ years of experience in Oil & Gas, Automotive, and Aerospace & Defense.
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