Recruiter are NOT looking at your LinkedIn profile...

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞...

They're just not. They can't even keep up with the 250+ applications they get for each of their dozen jobs they are trying to fill much less go read about what a "𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞"...

And if you send them your resume through a DM... well, 🤣

What they will do is get your contact info from a "list" from a place I won't share how, and spam you with emails and maybe a "𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒂 99% 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐-𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒕!" in a DM...

Friends, if you want a new job, you're going to have to do it the old-fashioned way... use your network and apply through a job posting. Unfortunately, the Green Banner will only take you so far and most of us don't know how to appropriately use our network, so in the end, it's about 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈...

So full disclosure... some recruiters will look at your profile... there are like 20 of them! 🙂 But then again, there are a bajillionteen-million recruiters roaming around LinkedIn so are the odds really in your favor?

I say all this so you can make the best use of your time when making this career transition... put in the work... fill your pipeline with actual applications and religiously track what you're doing. Then sprinkle in some conversations with previous co-workers, your agreed-upon references and your inner circle here on LinkedIn.

𝐏𝐒. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬: If you are a master communicator and an authentic engager on LinkedIn, 𝑳𝑰𝑲𝑬 𝑴𝑬, take your total number of connections and divide it by 100... for me that is 6,000 divided by 100 so... about 60. If you are NOT a master communicator and/or authentic engager... divide your total connections by 300... Basically, the people whose names you can state... by memory...

PPS. Everything above is based on my one-on-one conversations with HUNDREDS of people on LinkedIn... some were clients, most were not.

𝐏𝐏𝐏𝐒. 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, feel free to lay into me. I get too much love in my posts, so I'd love some dissenting views on this matter... 😉 I'd also love to hear why job seekers usually just get "crickets" after their engagement with ya all...

Tune in Thursday for some video talk on this matter...

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