Today felt much more productive. I went to the outplacement website and started working on the steps to getting a job. The first one is about becoming more familiar with your professional environment, and they emphasize LinkedIn, calling it a "must." LinkedIn has a tool that measures how complete your profile is, and the advice is to reach 100% complete.
Well, I was surprised at the effort required. This is not like updating your Facebook profile with your favorite movies and songs. It's a lot more like writing a resume, and since mine is not really up to date, I had to do a bit of work. I still have some updating to do (my picture is a vacation shot with sunglasses, same one I use for Facebook), but I put in job and education information, work skills and that fine picture, and I got my profile up to 90% complete, from 45% previously.
The last step, to get that last 10%, is to get 50 contacts total. Right now I have 14. I don't know 36 more people on a professional basis, so that might be a tough goal. This leads me to wondering if I should try to link to my family members, and whether being linked to me would drag down their profiles. I am also suspicious that LinkedIn set that number as a goal partly for the purpose of hooking in everyone everywhere, because that's a bunch of contacts. Anyway, I'll see what I can do. I already sent one invitation, so 35 to go.
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