Should I delete my LinkedIn?
For context, after being laid off in the winter as a first year (6 months on the desk) I spent 5 month at a no name boutique before landing at a brand shop
You always hear your reputation is everything in finance, so I’m a bit concern how this looks. It can’t look great to have been at 3 places in less than a year. Should I just remove the boutique? Or perhaps delete LinkedIn altogether since there’d be a massive gap?
You just said you were laid off. Why are you tripping? You explain it in the interview process.
Brother, you miss my point. I’m know to explain that in interviews…it’s on my resume
I’m talking about LinkedIn which is seen by everyone: co-workers, clients, investors, recruiters etc. LinkedIn strips the narrative out of it and can potentially just be seen as someone that’s hopped from spot to spot. My concern is more on around how that’s perceived. Especially in 4/5 years when the recessionary environment isn’t so fresh in people’s mind and people think what hell happened here in their life
Hey - this is a very good question.
Bluntly - nobody cares.
You have experiences, you were let go in one of the worst environments within the worst/fastest hiking cycle in modern history. Compelling enough.
Do yourself a favour, keep working and keep valuing your experience and showing it on LinkedIn - no need to be ashamed. No name doesn’t mean non-existent or non experience. As an analyst people will care you know how to crunch a model, not how you drove a transaction of 1000bn.
Your biggest priority should be to have a good reputation within your current environment. This matters because you never know who knows who indeed. If it’s in this shop, so be it but don’t delete stuff to please a headhunter or another person who thinks in binary from the 12 months mark.
All the best.
5 months is not a massive gap.
I'd keep the boutique on for now, and once you've stayed at your current firm for a while you can remove it.
Also, people aren't looking that deep into your LinkedIn, I really wouldnt overthink it
It’s okay to be, and appear, less than perfect.
I got laid off. Shamelessly changed all my dates to years only instead of months once I started my new place. Your LinkedIn doesn’t have to be 100% on the dot like your resume does. I have friends who are still looking for a job and never updated their LinkedIn. It’s not the end of the world. I was a little self conscious when I didn’t have a job.
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