5 LinkedIn Profile Hacks That Help Recruiters Find You
Posted 25th November 2025 • Written by James Hudson on forbes.com • • • • • •
LinkedIn in has a series of powerful algorithms that help recruiters surgically refine their outreach: understanding how these work enables you to optimize your profile for maximum discoverability:
1. Utilize The Skills Functionality
LinkedIn recently increased the number of skills you can include on your profile from 50 to 100. You can append skills to three areas on your profile: against each role you’ve held, against any volunteer positions and against your education. Utilizing the skills functionality is increasingly critical, as platform-wide 40% of recruiter searches now begin with skills (as opposed to beginning with job title and company).
2. Interact With Places Where You Want To Work
Users that have applied for jobs, followed the company page on LinkedIn or engaged with posts made from the company page show up in this pool. You’re more likely to hear from a recruiter at Apple if you’re engaged with Apple’s talent brand, so be sure to follow all the pages of the companies you’d like to work at.
3. Utilize The Open To Work Feature
Recognizing that not everyone wants to advertise that they’re ready for their next role, LinkedIn offers up two related pieces of functionality. The green, visible to all users, “Open To Work” banner stirred up outsized controversy, even though LinkedIn’s own data shows it’s delivering exactly the outcomes it was designed for. Whatever you decide about the public banner, you should absolutely use the private notification that lets recruiters know that you’re interested in new opportunities: users that do so receive 40% more outreach from recruiters than those that don’t.
4. Upload Your Resume To LinkedIn
Uploading your resume serves two important functions: it enables you to apply for roles directly from the app, and as long as you’ve selected the toggle to “share resume data with recruiters” it significantly enhances your discoverability. You can rest assured that your resume is only visible to recruiters using the LinkedIn Recruiter product and is not visible to ordinary users.
5. Regularly Check All Your Message Inboxes
In both the app and desktop versions of LinkedIn, messages are now sorted in to “focused” and “other” subfolders, and you should get into the habit of regularly checking both. Across the whole of LinkedIn, the average response rate for recruiter outreach is just 30%.
Get into the habit of responding to recruiters that reach out to you so that you can both connect folks in your network with opportunity, and crucially establish relationships with recruiters that may well serve you in the future.
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