Based on my experience sourcing on LinkedIn, here is a list of profile hacks.

To be found more often, both on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter, do this:

• When you enter your data, follow prompts and selections – do not enter unusually spelled names
• Use your industry, not your company’s
• Your companies should point to company pages on LinkedIn; same for schools
• Use standard job titles (e.g., “Software Developer” not “Chief Coder”)
• Do not enter years of study – this way, you will be found by any range of years of study
• Add a degree or certification abbreviations to your last name
  • Otherwise, do not abbreviate words
• LinkedIn does not search for words in the “Accomplished” sections. If you graduated with honors, got certified, or won a competition, say so in summary
• Do not put closing dates on the last few jobs – you will then be found for each keyword in the job titles or companies
  • You can add a fake job with just the title you want - or say it in the headline
• Explain your skills and experience either in summary or in the last 1-2 position descriptions:
  • What have you done, and what was achieved?
  • Write concrete facts and figures; do not praise yourself
  • Vary the ways you speak about the job, phrase your skills in different ways
  • Run Grammarly
• Take skill quizzes
• Add 50 standard skills to your profile
• Add languages knowledge
• Go easy on your part-time activities, hobbies, and family
• Be alone in your profile picture
• Get at least 500 connections with LIONs
• Add a publicly visible email address to your profile
• Join relevant groups
• Share content on your timeline and run polls
• Respond to others’ professional content, @mention them
• Attach your resume to the profile and say so up front in summary
• Do not change default settings except email notifications
• Get a premium account and allow everyone to message you
• Turn on “Open to Work” when you are ready

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