LinkedIn articles

A LinkedIn profile is part of your application whether you treat it that way or not. Recruiters search LinkedIn before they reply to candidates, hiring managers open the profile while deciding whether to schedule an interview, and anyone weighing your candidacy reads it side by side with the resume you sent, looking for the places where the two accounts agree or quietly disagree.

The guides here cover the practical edits that follow from that reality: writing a headline and About section around the search terms recruiters actually use, presenting each role so the profile agrees with the tailored resume you send out, collecting recommendations and visible activity that back up your claims, pruning anything that makes the story harder to follow, and updating the page whenever the work changes direction.

Set a simple standard before you start editing: a recruiter skimming the page for half a minute should leave knowing what you do, how recently you did it, and why it fits the roles you are chasing. Every article in this collection exists to move a profile closer to that standard.