Recruiters will look at who you have as connections and which companies and influencers you follow. Regardless of what claims you have written on your profile, viewing connections, activities and interactions provide an additional layer of verification for any sceptical hiring manager. For example, an implicit red flag would be if your profile says you have ‘over 20 years of experience in the local construction industry’ yet have zero connections to other local people in the construction industry.

Head-hunters pay a lot of money to be able to refine and search the platform for talent fitting even the most nuanced of combinations. Do you want to miss out on coming up in searches? We use keyword optimisation and SEO techniques to ensure that your name comes up near the top the next time a head-hunter does a search in your field.

Your LinkedIn profile’s individually collapsible fields give more space to go into further depth than your printed CV. There is no page-limit for LinkedIn, unlike a printed resume. Be careful not to include any commercially sensitive information as your LinkedIn profile is likely to have a much wider audience than any CV/resume.

Probably the most well-known reason to use the platform, networking is at the core of the platform with the group chat feature coming ahead in leaps and bounds in recent years. Perhaps you could ask a friend to do an intro via chat for you?