Are you looking for the best overseas jobs? The right recruitment agency can present you with ideal opportunities! LinkedIn is essential resource recruiters use to find candidates for open positions. So yes, having a LinkedIn profile is an absolute must.
Let’s go a step further! Recruiting agencies want to see more than how you have set up a profile to determine whether you are worth their time and effort in finding you.
As a leading overseas recruiting agency in India, we bring to you 5 things that we keep an eye out for in your LinkedIn profiles as recruiters.
1. Your Headline
When a recruiter visits your LinkedIn profile, the “Headline” beneath your name will catch their attention immediately! Your LinkedIn headline is crucial, as it conveys your professional philosophy to the world.
For example, if you want to get hired for a software development job, you must not just write “Result-oriented professional.” If you do, most recruiters will quickly move on to the profiles of other candidates—even if they had run a keyword search on the most popular software-development terms and found your profile to be a match. Using the right keywords according to your relevant position and industry is far-reaching!
They wouldn’t mind if you named yourself a programmer, a coder, or a software developer, but if you did not somehow make it apparent that you do software development, they wouldn’t be eager to enter your profile.
2. Your Profile Photo
For every role, it’s critical to have a LinkedIn profile photo that accurately represents you, displays you as a professional, and conveys your ability to excel in a business setting. This means it should not be a blurry selfie or a picture of you and your friends hanging out. Make sure you smile in your shot to show that you are approachable and exciting!
3. Your Summary
Your LinkedIn profile’s “About” section requires you to include a summary that briefly describes your qualifications. It’s your personal branding statement!
Most people make errors in this area. In summary, you should describe what you do, your professional aspirations, and your unique contributions. You should avoid using meaningless statements such as; “Motivated self-starter with a proven record of success,” and instead try and be more specific.
4. Your Experience and Skills
Showing your prior experience should include freelance work, side hustles, charity work, and one-time projects in addition to your 9 to 5 employment history.
It can be a good idea to list every position you have held while working for the same firm in the experience section of your profile to highlight your duration there, your new responsibilities, and your noteworthy accomplishments.
The other trick is picking the skills you want to be endorsed for, and your friends will endorse you. Make sure you include every skill you want recruiters to know you possess!
5. Connections & Recommendations
The more first-degree connections you have, the more quickly you will be found on LinkedIn. Why not invite a couple of your friends and co-workers (or former co-workers, school buddies, or business contacts) to connect with you right now? Quantity is less of a factor (but you do want to have at least 50 quality contacts) because if you have 500+ connections but 95% of the contacts aren’t related to the field or industry for the job, it doesn’t offer much value.
It goes without saying that recommendations from other professionals are pretty helpful, and good references from third parties are even more powerful. So, request LinkedIn recommendations from a few influential people. Be specific: Give concrete samples of what you want to be shown and describe your desires in detail. Please make sure they are short and really highlight something about your capabilities or strengths.
If you want to catch the eye of a recruiting agency for overseas jobs,you must highlight factual professional experiences that showcase your resiliency and adaptability in regard to challenges.
If no one has recommended you yet, you must get busy writing recommendations for the people you know. The best way to collect new LinkedIn recommendations is to recommend other people.
Quick Tip: Begin to engage in conversation with relevant people in your network (in the profession and industry you want a job) by joining the same LinkedIn Groups and participating in discussions, commenting on their posts or articles, seeking the help of connections you both have in common to help with the introduction, and sending a direct connection request offering a reason to connect.
With everything, make sure that your profile is simple to read. If your profile has tightly packed paragraphs, the recruiters will find it challenging to assess your profile and determine whether you are a great fit for the company.
For over three decades, Dynamic Staffing Services has developed a solid reputation and niche expertise in the human resources sector. Being a renowned overseas recruitment agency in India and representing a globally spanning network, we have helped thousands of organizations to induct promising talents. We are the largest human resource consultancies in West Asia, with a broad geographic reach and comprehensive knowledge of local talent strengths.
