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5 Tips for Getting Recruiters to Notice You on LinkedIn Source â€" Flickr.comA few months ago, I came across this questionon Quora:“Does being on LinkedIn really help me get hired?”Hell yes, it does.evalOnly a year before I saw that question, a recruiter called me with an incredible position at Amazon.How’d she find me? You guessed it: LinkedIn.Having a LinkedIn profile literally changed my life. Instead of applying for jobs and praying, I flipped the traditional model on its head. I didn’t have to sell myself anymore.Now, recruiters reach out every week to try and sell meon coming to work for them. If that’s where you’d like to be, then here are 5 tips to help you get there:1. Complete Your ProfileAccording to LinkedIn, completed profiles are 40 times more likely to get a response from employers, yetonly half of the platform’s 400 million profiles are 100% complete.LinkedIn is like Google for recruiters. If your profile isn’t packed with the right keywords, you’re just not going to show up in their searches.Even worse, LinkedIn is biased against rookie and incomplete profiles. If you want to show up in recruiter searches, you have to workto improve the strength of your profile.evalAll that starts with bringing your profile up to 100%.2. A Clear Headline is Better than a Clever OneI’ve seen a lot of imaginative headline work on LinkedIn. There are plenty of people who describe themselves as “Marketing Ninjas” or “Accounting Wizards.”I love the creativity, but the problem is they’re too clever for their own good.Remember, LinkedIn is like Google for recruiters, and no Fortune 500 is looking to hire a “Ninja,” a “Wizard,” or an “Alchemist.” They’re looking for an “Account Executive” or a “Product Development Manager.”evalYou can Some recruiters tell me they’re turned off by anything less than 500 connections. They’re usually pretty forgiving, however, when it comes to recent college grads.But if you’ve had at least a decade to get established in the industry, a nything less than 500 signals that either you don’t play well with others or you’re not valued in your field.The qualityof your connections is what matters most. A recruiter doesn’t care if you’ve connected with 1,000 random people. They care about whothose people are.It’s especially helpful to have connections in the company where you want to work. If a recruiter from Google wants to make a hire, they’re going to feel much more comfortable contacting the person who knows 50 Googlers rather than the person who has zero connections within the company.ConclusionCan LinkedIn really get you hired?evalHell yes, it can; I’m living proof. Just follow these five tips and you’ll be well on your way to attracting high-quality contacts from the companies where you want to work.In this video I’ll share 5 tips I’ve learned along my journey to get found by recruiters.