Date: October 30, 2019
Peer Reviewer: Morgan Brandt
Author: Taras Shyp
Work: The LinkedIn Profile of Taras Shyp
Link: www.linkedin.com/in/tshyp
Hello Taras,
Thank you for submitting your profile for peer review; It is great to see an overview of your experience with BC Cancer research and the molecular pathology of tumors. The following are some suggestions for improving your profile.
First Impressions
First impressions of your profile are very minimal until reading further into your credentials and history. First, you only have 9 connections which are understandable with a new profile, but with the invite tool you can add people mutual contacts, email correspondence, and others who share your schooling and industry. Second, the opportunity to showcase personality in the cover photo would be an advantage when new connections are acquainting themselves with your profile. Lastly, your credentials as a graduate student are impressively demonstrated in your summary.
- Add more connections through the connections tool
- Add a cover photo
Profile Picture
The profile picture is professional and well-framed for the profile.
Title Box
If a recruiter were to look at the title box of your profile currently, it does not elaborate your work beyond student, which does not seem to apply to you while working on your PhD:
- Adding a job title that applies to your work experience helps LinkedIn network with recruiters for you. An example based on your summary would be “Grad Student / Molecular Pathologist.”
Effectiveness of the Summary
While your “about me” summary demonstrates a firm background in medicine and molecular biology, however,
- there are a few statements missing to make your profile stand out:
- Add a statement about what you want to do career-wise going forward.
- Add a statement about your current work as I did not see any current positions on your profile; doing this shows your profile as active and up to date.
Experience and Achievements
The experience you list demonstrates some credible employers, however, the following is missing:
- Outline the role you perform
- Add the mandate of the organization
- Add accomplishment statements under the description of involvement with each employer
- Follow this link to read more about accomplishment statements: https://students.ubc.ca/career/career-resources/resumes-cover-letters-curricula-vitae
- Provide details: about the benefits accomplished from your work.
- What did you do well in that position?
- Were there any key projects you worked on?
- Did I do any studies that founded great results?
- Examples
- Attach examples of your work: i.e.) studies and journal articles you have worked on under BC Cancer Research
- Perhaps link the websites to Lviv Regional Pathology, especially for your work on the council
Volunteer Experience
The same advice applies from the “Experience and Achievements” heading:
- Add accomplishment statements
- Provide details: about the benefits accomplished from your work
- Outline the role you perform
- Add the mandate of the organization
Education and Courses
Education listed is very surface level when there is an opportunity to
- Add examples of your course work: studies, projects, papers
- Add applicable courses, especially graduate level
Skills
Based on your experience level there should be more niche skills listed in your “skills” section
- Add technology you have a high proficiency in
- Add any standout skills that you have worked on for a long time
- Add industry-related skills
Connections
As mentioned in the “First Impressions,” you have very few connections which are fine for a new profile, however, here are some tips to add more:
- Add your contacts through My Network on LinkedIn to add people you have worked with through online correspondence.
- Ask close connections with industry-related credentials to write brief LinkedIn references for your page. These act as quick and reliable references for potential recruiters to see.
- Join related groups and associations to keep up to date on industry job postings, advancements, and findings.
Grammar and Expression
Your writing flows well in your summary and shows no grammatical errors; however, the overall expression is clinical. In my experience some personality and character in texts connects readers beyond your credentials. To add voice, answer the following questions:
- Why are you doing this work?
- Why do you like this work?
- What are your goals?
Conclusion
Overall, the content presented on your profile is a strong foundation in representing your work to prospective connections.
To summarize for you, here is a list of suggested edits:
- Add more connections
- Add a cover photo
- Add a job title
- Elaborate on goals and current work in summary
- Adding descriptions to work and volunteer experience
- Add organization mandate
- Outline your role
- Provide details
- Add examples
- Add course work and relevant classes
- Add skills based on technology and industry
- Soliciting references from connections with credentials
- Incorporate your voice more to invite prospective connections to work with you
- Seize all opportunities to have keywords linked to your profile through:
- Skills
- Title
- Experience
- Education
Again, I have enjoyed reading your profile and I hope these suggestions are useful. Please feel free to let me know if you have any comments are questions regarding my feedback.
Thank you,
Morgan Brandt
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