Rashmi

This is probably the most engaging LinkedIn profile I have read! :) Most people update their LinkedIn profile once, and then tend to it piecemeal: add the relevant details of the last job when they move, tweak a line here, add something there, and move on. Of course, there's no 'right' or 'wrong' way - it's whatever works for you. This one feels very different, though. It feels like Chandan sat down one fine day, looked at his entire career holistically, and decided to tell a larger story rather than document a series of jobs. How do I guess that? Look at the note under his Marketing & Training role at Futures First: "Hired one person during this stint who I will be working for in a few years". Then go to his Classplus role: "The guy I hired in 2012 now hires me and gives me my first CXO role". That's not how you normally write a LinkedIn profile. That's someone connecting dots across a career. And the whole thing reads like Chandan is having a conversation with a reader who cares enough to go through it all. There is humor, vulnerability, luck, failure, ambition and coincidence. The less glamorous stretches (the 10-month career break, the Global Sales Head–Dining role at Zomato that he describes as a "dull period", etc.) are almost as interesting as the highs: working with Hrithik, Katrina and others, getting the Zomato role, building new businesses, becoming a CXO. That's what makes the profile really interesting. It isn't really a résumé. It's a career narrative. This is the kind of profile that rewards exploration. On a normal LinkedIn profile, reading older roles is mostly archaeology. Here, reading about older roles gives you new context for newer ones. The reader discovers the callback between Futures First and Classplus. That's almost a narrative device. I genuinely don't think I've seen another LinkedIn profile quite like this. #linkedin #creativity