I keep being told, over and over, that it's an absolute MUST to have your picture on LinkedIn if you're looking for a job. Apparently, recruiters are 7 times more likely to look at someone's profile if it has a picture. Otherwise they think you're hiding something (which sounds bogus to me).
I don't like it, for a lot of reasons. I'm not on social media other than here and LinkedIn, and the only reason I'm on LinkedIn is because everyone told me, when I knew I 'd be out of work, that I HAD to be on LinkedIn to find a job. But I don't put my face out there. I prefer my privacy, and frankly, unless I'm looking for a modeling job or sales job (attractive people sell more), my appearance is not relevant to my skills, experience or ability to do the job. But I digress.
I'm considering that I may have to put my photo on LI but I'm asking you tech-savvy folks out there, is there a way I can do it so that either no one else can copy/steal my photo, or that if they do, it's obvious that it was copied/stolen. I was thinking of adding a watermark to it somehow, but I don't want it to show up on LI, I would want it to show up in the copied/stolen image. Or is there just no way of preventing a photo from being stolen?
I just don't want to see my face somewhere else, and once you put something in the internet, it's there forever. And LinkedIn "owns" whatever you put on there.
Any suggestions on how to protect my image?
Thanks in advance!