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Optimizing your LinkedIn profile for recruiters

Optimizing your LinkedIn profile for recruiters

From the course: Making Recruiters Come to You with J.T. O'Donnell

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Optimizing your LinkedIn profile for recruiters

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- One of my favorite things to do with people is take them top to bottom through their LinkedIn profile and show them how to optimize it to get recruiters knocking on their doors and that's what we're going to do right now. So the first thing I need you to understand is the top fold of your LinkedIn profile is most important. We want to get this right. Recruiters spend about six to 13 seconds looking at that, deciding if they're going to keep on scrolling. So we want to make sure that you make the right impact. Now I'm going to start with your photograph and your banner. There are a lot of different theories on this, but let me tell you mine. The photograph, you should look approachable. You don't need anything fancy. Grab your smartphone, get some good lighting and then have somebody take, I don't know, 30, 40 pictures of yourself and choose one that makes you look like you're someone they'd want to talk to. You don't…

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