OPTIMIZING YOUR PROFILE
~ Your profile is only as good as you can be found ~
Keywords
- Recruiters search for job candidates by location and keywords such as skill, title, certification, programming language, accolade.
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- Make sure that you have your job’s keywords and experience listed
- Write variations of how recruiters might search
i.e. Project Management, PM, Project Manager, Program Management, PMO Certified Public Account, (CPA) Financial Planning & Analysis, FP&A, Financial Analyst Node.js Software Engineer, Back-end Developer-
- In LinkedIn, you can list up to 50 skills and you can type them in, so fill them up
- Also, fill in your job descriptions with keywords of skills and job titles that recruiters are looking for. This includes variations when titles vary at different companies
i.e. DevOps, Cloud Automation Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE (I realize that SREs focus on infrastructure automation & DevOps focuses on App & Infrastructure automation), but many recruiters might not be technical & your goal is to be found -
Open to New Opportunities
- Most are aware that you can turn on new opportunities in LinkedIn, but if not, go into settings and turn it on (google for how-to)
Make Your Profile Easy to Read
- Make your profile easy to read or the reader will go to the next person. We make decisions very quickly from scanning profiles and resumes.
- Sometimes recruiters will comb through a profile and dig deeper, but if we see a mountain of words with no spaces, it’s probably indicative of the type of candidate you are and we’re onto the next person
- I would use a dash or bullet point symbol (copy and paste from Word)
LinkedIn Profile Optimization
Profile Review +
Recommendation + Modifications
- Profile Review
- Professional Recommendations
(Be contacted by more recruiters, decision-makers & networkers for qualified opportunities) - Up to 3 revisions
- LinkedIn Recruiter Profile Screenshots (see your profile from the Recruiter’s vantage point)
$49 bundled with Resume Formatting
($50 off reg price)
