The LinkedIn Profile That Will Have Recruiters Reaching Out To You Weekly | tips & examples

No joke: I followed all your instructions this morning, and got messaged by recruiters TWO HOURS LATER! You are awesome

Recruiters reach out to me all the time and 0 of them have actually helped me. The reality is that 95% of them don't read your profile; they simply put shit into a seach bar and let an algorithm do the rest for them. Why do I know this? Because I job shadowed 3 recruiters of different companies but all of them had the same thought processes. If you still want a recruiter to somehow find you, I'm gonna consolidate these steps. 1) Profile & (maybe) Background photo: Its fucking stupid and arbitrary, but after the recruiter gathers his/her list of profiles using an algorithm (based on key words), they click on most of the people with profile pics and briefly view their profile. Having a background photo isn't the end-all-be-all, but makes the page "look" a little better. 2) A SIMPLE Headline: Recruiters DGAF about "turning ideas into action insert fake motivation bullshit here blah blah blah" headlines. They care about the job they're trying to fill out. Put your job title in your headline and try to make it generic. For example, my job title is "Senior Market Field Specialist". I knock on doors and sell life insurance to old people, so I just put "Life Insurance Agent". 3) Use the drop down menu, especially in the "work experience" section: This ties back to trying to make your job title "generic". If your job title isn't in the drop-down menu, then the algorithm will have a difficult time pairing you up with a job. If McDonalds is looking for a manager, their algorithm is searching for someone with "manager" in their name, not "Operations and Team Leader Specialist". 4) Just be GENERIC! This is the number one advice. Your LinkedIn page isn't technically directed towards a recruiter, its directed towards an Algorithm. Don't waste 2 hours trying to make every part of your LinkedIn appealing; thats what your resume is for. Just make your LinkedIn visually appealing with a profile pic & background photo, a generic headline that could fit every job description thats similar to what you're looking for, and make sure your shit is available on a drop-down menu. 5) Your previous experience isn't about what you do, it's how you say it: I don't sell life insurance, I "make a difference in the senior market by providing protection for their families". You don't work the cash register at McDonald's, you "specialize in front-of-house technology and provide a direct line of communication between cLiEnTs and production manufacturing specialists (line cooks) for a $183B market leader" The job-search process is 100% loaded with bullshit. It fucking sucks. If you don't have experience, it especially sucks because theres no way of judging you. Just being transparent, theres not much that can help other than crossing your fingers, praying, and/or hoping you get lucky. If you don't have experience with any job, your best bet is to simply go get a minimum wage job and somehow apply that knowledge into an entry-level role after you gain some "life experience". Another option is to go to trade-school. Realistically, trade-school is the best way of gaining the skills to prepare for a job. To all the people who are struggling to find a job, I empathize and feel for you. I've recently been in this situation. This process is 100% broken and filled with fake ass people. That is the reality. Being said, it may not seem like it but there are some good recruiters and good people in this world. Just be positive and continue putting in the effort to find a job, or put yourself in a situation to find a job (whether its going to trade school, finding paid/unpaid internships (watch pursuit of happiness), or getting a minimum wage job and hope you fall in love with the industry you're in. Gain that life experience, make money, and be happy. I hope and pray you all find what you're looking for!

I legit followed all of your tips and had a recruiter from Facebook reach out the next day. Amazing video, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Had to come back to this video to let you know, after applied (most) of the tips you gave in this video, about a week later I was contacted by an IT recruiter about a job…. A week after that I was then contacted by an operations manager about another engineer opportunity with their company 😊. So thanks !

I had to come back and let you know. I didn't even follow all the steps! I did what I could at the time and the next day (today) I had a recruiter contact me. I'm floored! Thank you!

Okay, this video definitely let me know that my LinkedIn is not where it needs to be. I’ve got some work to do.

Notification gang are we here? Do you have a good LinkedIn profile or is yours a work in progress? Let me know if you have any tips I didn't mention! Timestamps 1:46 How recruiters find candidates - LinkedIn Recruiter 2:30 Background photo 4:10 Profile photo 6:05 How to craft a good headline 8:46 How to use keywords on your page 9:18 How Contact information 10:16 'Open To Work' feature 12:55 How to fill out the about section 13:40 How to fill out the featured section 15:10 How to fill out the work experience section 18:05 How to fill out the education section 18:49 How to fill out the licenses and certifications section 19:11 How to fill out the volunteer experience section 19:50 How to fill out the skills and endorsements section 20:54 How to fill out the accomplishments section 21:30 Highlight your second language 22:08 Utilizing the activity section

Love it! Great job as usual, Reni! 🙌🏽

I really loved the examples of the banners and tag lines. This video is right on time Bc I am updating mine and a few clients' LinkedIn profiles this week. Perfect. Love your hair too btw

🤯💥🤯!! This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. Thanks for making this video.

Thank you so much for this video Reni, it definitely helped provide more details on what to details to be adding to the different sections for a LinkedIn profile.

I wanted to let you know that your LinkedIn tutorial is the most helpful I have found on Youtube, especially for the experience section. I watched at least 4 videos with no success and then after getting through your video I found exactly what I was looking for. THANK YOU!!🙂

definetely have a lot of work to do, thank you so much for this!!

This was a great informative video. I definitely agree having a photo that everyone can see as well as great tag lines play a big role in having a recruiter reach out to you.🙌💜👑

Hi Reni, Thank you for providing a very detailed instructional video on setting up your LinkedIn profile and also which included a plethora of great tips. Thank you. Very kind. A great/free resource!

This was beyond helpful. I got recruiters reaching out after days of applying your tips to my LinkedIn. Love you!

Felt comfortable being on your tutorial. Good info and told like a story. Thank you.Dr Keith

Amazing video as always! I especially love the tip about taking skill quizzes, something I didn’t realize existed until now. Going to take a couple today. Thanks!

This was very helpful Reni, made so many changes right along. Thank you

This was so helpful! So many features I didn't know about