As many job seekers do, we rush over to Linkedin to update our profile and spend a lot of time getting the details of our job history and description written out. Often times we don’t spend as much time looking into the right profile picture, and just grab one from a recent vacation. One company is saying they can know 3 important factors about you just from your pic. Are you competent, likeable and influential? Photofeeler, now offers you the tools to make sure your profile picture is one of the biggest factors to your professional and social media accounts.
A trend to include your picture inside your resume or application comes with the justification the recruiter will find you online regardless. You might as well decide which picture they are going to see first. Might not be a bad idea to boost your resume photo with confidence by using photoFeeler’s peer voting network to get the best possible professional photo out there.
PhotoFeeler recently completed a research to find which elements produced the best professional photo for websites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The study was based on over 60,000 ratings of perceived “Competence, Likability, and Influence” from 800 different profile photos.
The results, not staggering but always worth glancing over to make sure you fit as high as you possibly can. Pictures of a body, or face close ups were not as preferred. However, a profile picture of your bust (head to shoulders) score much higher.
PhotoFeeler found that “squinching” your eyes, smiling with teeth, and wearing formal dress had positive influences on perception, while any sort of visible editing (aside from black and white) and a serious face had a negative impact. The actual setting of the photo had no effect.
For more information about the results of the study, see the infographic below for all the results:
