Date: November 4th, 2020
Peer Reviewer: Barton Lui
Author: Nicholas Jang
Peer Review Document Title: Nicholas Jang’s Linkedin Profile
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasjang/
Hello Nicholas,
Thank you for submitting your LinkedIn profile for review. Your profile looks excellent and complete. Following are some comments and suggestions for improving the profile.
First Impressions
First impressions of the profile page are very promising. The page looked clean, completed with relevant information in each section. Your profile picture looks nice and the background photo provides a glipse of your background in real estate. The headline and about section were informative, recruiters and viewers can get to know about you without being too wordy and it shows that you are passionate about acquiring new opportunities. The experience and education sections were complete and filled out accordingly showing exactly the field of employment you would like to get into.
- You have a custom URL for the profile instead of LinkedIn’s default numbers URL. This is wonderful and will make it easier to discover you LinkedIn profile.
Profile Photo
The profile picture is bright, clear and professional.
Title Box
The title box looks good, it shows clearly your career objective and that you are on the way to become a designated AIC appraiser.
Effectiveness of the Summary
The summary is very informative and covers your current education and employment status. It also reflects what your experience gained from your job and that you are determined to pursue a career in the real estate industry. Feel free to adopt the following recommendation:
- Include activities/ hobbies you enjoy doing in your downtime will individualize the profile
- Include any keywords or languages that are frequently used in the field of appraisal
Experience and Achievements
The list of experience looks wonderful and gives other potential employers a good sense that you are a hard-working and committed employee. Your experience also shows that you have the intention to continue grow and gain experience in this industry which I think most employers value this.
- Feel free to showcase any achievements that have quantifiable or observable results. This could show more about your abilities to potential employers.
Education and Courses
- If there are any particular courses that you think are relevant to your career objective, it might be appropriate to include it in the education column. This could boost your credibility.
- You have listed your education in chronological order making it easy to read.
Skills
- You have many skills listed which is wonderful.
- Try to have more endorsement on your skills by asking for endorsement and endorsing others
Connections
You have an impressive amount of connections which is very beneficial to your future career endeavor.
- ask your connections with credentials to write a brief LinkedIn reference is a good idea
Grammatical and Expression
Overall the writing looks fine with no noticeable grammatical errors.
Conclusion
Your LinkedIn profile page is well edited and consist of a lot of details. With some edits, this page can be perfected.
To summarize for you, here is a list of suggested edits:
- Adding a few sentences about your interest and hobby in the summary to individualize your profile.
- Include a few keywords to relate closely to your field-of-interest
- Include quantifiable/ significant results in your experience
- List key courses that are relevant to your field-of-interest in the education column
- Ask for endorsement to your skills
- In the “Skills & endorsements” section, include skills that are directly related to appraisal such as residential or commercial appraisal or proficiency in using programs that are required to perform tasks in the industry.
The profile page overall is very well done. Please feel to let me know should you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you
Barton Lui
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasjang/
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