Guides
LinkedIn guides
Guides on your LinkedIn profile and on contacting people there politely.
Referral message templates for LinkedIn
Short LinkedIn messages for asking a stranger, a former colleague or an alumnus for a referral.
Read the guide →1 min readA LinkedIn profile checklist before you ask
Make sure the profile your referrer might look at supports your CV.
Read the guide →1 min readReferral requests by email or LinkedIn?
The plain trade-offs between asking by email and asking on LinkedIn, with a short template for each.
Read the guide →1 min readExplaining a career gap
A short, kind guide to describing time away from work plainly, on a CV, on LinkedIn and in a message.
Read the guide →1 min read