These days a headhunting scenario isn’t all that rare, but what can you do to raise your profile in a way that increases your chances of making that happen? We’ve broken it down into some easy steps using LinkedIn that can increase your chances of success (whatever that looks like for you). 

Top Tips for Raising Your Profile on LinkedIn

1. Update Your Profile!
   As consultants, we use a LinkedIn service called LinkedIn Talent Solutions where we can undertake a search for a specific job title with specific skills in a specific location so if your profile doesn’t properly reflect what it is you’re currently doing, then we’re never going to find you.
   
   ✅Have you updated your headline to accurately sum up what you do?
   ✅Is your current role accurate?
   ✅ Are your key competencies and skills listed?
   ✅ Have you included your experience using software or tools related to the role you're working?
   ✅ Do you have a professional looking profile photo?
   ✅ Have you reviewed your previous roles and responsibilities to make sure they showcase your journey?
   
   
2. Are You Open to Opportunities?
   LinkedIn updated their platform a while back to allow people to let recruiters know you're open to being contacted about job opportunities (or not). By updating this setting it means you rank a bit higher in our search results.
   
   This can be accessed via the Privacy settings in your profile.
   
   
3. Get Connected
   The proverb, “the more the merrier” absolutely applies to LinkedIn connections. Reach out to colleagues and past acquaintances and enjoy building your digital network. If a consultant seeks a connection with you, it probably means that you’ve appeared in a talent search and they think your skills and experience are top notch.
   
   By accepting a connection with a recruiter, it can indicate that while you may not be interested in a career move right now, you’re happy to entertain the idea of it in future.
   
   When it comes to increasing your chances of being shoulder-tapped, what you know needs to be balanced by who you know.

Going through this list and checking off our recommendations will not only raise your profile in this talent-short market, but it will also strengthen your position for when the pendulum swings the other way and there’s more people looking for work than there are jobs available (it’s just the way it works).

And if you start getting inundated with messages from keen recruiters, try not to get too annoyed by them and take their reach outs as the confidence boost it actually is.

Ngā mihi nui

p.s. Here's a handy 'how-to' guide we prepared earlier for you to save and refer to later.