Thank you for another very useful article.

I see that under Engineer Manager/Senior Software Engineer, Mr. Allen writes, “Assisted Principle Engineer…” Since you describe Mr. Allen as a local friend, you may want to point out to him that a principle is a fundamental truth or proposition, an idea. Mr. Allen assisted the Principal Engineer, the Engineer with the highest authority, the Head Engineer. Spelling mistakes like this one can seriously undermine an otherwise well-written profile. Using the Spelling and Grammar Tool in Word and letting other people read over our material before posting it can help us avoid this kind of error.

Again, thanks.

My “yellow flag moment” came to the ratio… I don’t advocate getting tons of Recommendations, but if you have a large network without many recommendations I wonder if you didn’t just go to one of those “get tons of connections fast – even though no one knows or cares about you!” places …

My only disagreement is that too many recommendations looks too cheesy–like you are trying too hard. Recommendations is all about quality not quantity.

Some people leave what their last role was, others put up a fictitious company and say they are a consultant… for example, I might put Marketing Consultant or Marketing Freelancer @ Alba Consulting…. make sense?