Highlight your education in a way that supports your professional credibility and goals.
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✅ List your formal education clearly
✅ Add descriptions, achievements, and media
✅ Highlight projects or honors that reinforce your narrative
✅ Remove outdated or irrelevant items
In general, the guidelines for optimizing the experience section also apply to this section. With a few extra notes:
Your education entries should be easy to read and immediately recognizable.
Include:
If the school is well known in your industry, you can also reference it strategically in:
Most people leave the description field blank, but this is a missed opportunity.
You can use it to showcase:
This section should support the story your profile tells as a whole. If a detail doesn’t reinforce your professional narrative, leave it out.
You can attach media to education entries the same way you do in Experience.
Useful media examples include:
Your goal is not to list everything you ever studied.
Your goal is to create a tight, relevant timeline that supports your current positioning.
Consider removing or hiding: