JT & Dale Talk Jobs: Why did recruiters stop contacting me? – Arizona Daily Star

Jeanine “J.T.” O’Donnell and Dale Dauten Dear J.T. & Dale: I used to get a lot of recruiters reaching out to me on LinkedIn, but now it seems like none of them are. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. Are there any tips you can provide to help get more eyeballs on my profile? — ShaneJ.T.: With over 900 million users, LinkedIn is now the No. 1 platform for recruiters to search for candidates. However, that also means you have a lot more competition. It’s likely that your profile is no longer showing up in the top 50 search results. LinkedIn has an algorithm much like the internet search engines. You need to know how to utilize the algorithm for recruiters to find you. Recruiters search on keywords. Specifically, they search on words associated with the skills that they were told to look for in a candidate. So, you want to make sure that you have keywords optimized as much as possible. And that leads to one important tip: Your headline is the most important real estate on your LinkedIn profile because the algorithm looks at those words to match to keyword searches. A lot of people make the
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