How to prepare your LinkedIn profile for your job search?

A friend of a friend said that someone had written to her on LinkedIn if she would be interested in a job they had to offer and bam! Magic happened! The friend of a friend is overjoyed because she has just started a job at a new company, and you are wondering what to do to make fortune smile on you because you have been looking for a job for several weeks or months without success….

These situations are not urban legends – they are real and they happen daily.

LinkedIn is a wonderful tool for finding a new job, but you need to give your luck a helping hand and prepare your profile on LinkedIn to make it easy for recruiters to find you in the maze of thousands of other candidates. The success of your profile is based on its effectiveness.

The success of your profile is based on its effectiveness.

Caution! In this article/post, you will not find advice on which profile sections to fill in on Linkedin in order to find a job. The answer is always: ALL of them! The success of finding a job through LinkedIn lies not in WHAT to fill in on your profile, but in HOW to make it effective.

Let’s break the process down into a few steps – HOW to prepare your LinkedIn profile to find a job: