• Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:41 PM

Only halfway through December, we've already had it with year-end wrap-ups and trend pieces. But, unable to resist a good networking platitude or corporate cliché, we're eating up LinkedIn's most overused terms of 2010. Toppers include "innovative," "results-oriented," "dynamic," "proven track record," fast-paced" and "entrepreneurial." Love it! Still, citing employment experts, The Los Angeles Times suggests forgoing empty clichés for hard numbers and specific anecdotes to better convey one's professional prowess.

The advice is timely considering that LinkedIn just launched a tool that lets members use their profiles to create professional resumes. According to The Wall Street Journal, "The list is another effort by LinkedIn to emphasize the unique nature of its social network even as Facebook claims far more users." LinkedIn presently boasts 85 million members around the globe, compared to Facebook's than 500 million.

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