What Recruiters Actually See On Your LinkedIn Profile

What recruiters actually see on your LinkedIn profile, how LinkedIn Recruiter works, and why recruiters find candidates before they ever look at your job application.

A recruiter with 20 years of experience at Amazon, FedEx, and Korn Ferry explains the exact process used to source and screen candidates on LinkedIn every day.

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Most job seekers spend time optimizing the wrong parts of their LinkedIn profile. The tool recruiters use to find you is a completely different platform with different filters, different search logic, and a truncated view of your profile that shows almost nothing you think matters.

In this video I walk through exactly what I see when I find your profile, what makes me stop scrolling, what I ignore entirely, and why not being on LinkedIn with an optimized profile means you will almost always have to apply for jobs rather than getting recruited.

What this video covers:

How LinkedIn Recruiter works and why it looks nothing like your LinkedIn

How recruiters build candidate searches using keywords from the hiring manager

What actually shows up on your profile at the sourcing stage

What I am completely ignoring when I find you

Why your recommendations, courses, and activity feed do not matter yet

What gets a recruiter to send you an InMail

The minimum viable LinkedIn strategy if you hate the platform

00:00 - Recruiters using LinkedIn

00:52 - How jobs get recruited

03:46 - Recruiting pressure

06:35 - LinkedIn Recruiter