Upgrade Your LinkedIn Profile with (More) Skills

What if there were a super-easy way to get more recruiters to view your LinkedIn profile?

There is!

Add more skills throughout your profile!

You can have up to 100 skills!

Here's where to strategically place them:

✅ About Section - Feature your top 5 skills
✅ Experience - Add relevant skills to each job
✅ Projects, Volunteer & Education - Don't miss these spots!

How to find the right skills:

🔍 Study job postings in your field
🔍 Research profiles of industry peers
🔍 Use LinkedIn's Career Explorer tool (https://linkedin.github.io/career-explorer/)

Diversify your skills across these categories:

⚙ Industry knowledge
⚙ Tools & technologies
⚙ Core competencies

Remember: Recruiters actively search for specific skills. Make sure yours are discoverable!

And shout out to Kevin D. Turner (and Donna Svei) for these 2 excellent reminders

There are other pearls of wisdom and insight in the comments, so be sure to check out the post on LinkedIn here. 

🔎 JOB SEARCH

Stop thinking your resume shows your 'true self' - Dave Fano, Teal

If you believe you should put your “true self” out there, think again. This short carousel explains in very clear terms why you probably need to adapt your resume and messaging to address the people you are talking to/writing to. As Dave says, it’s about providing a “view of you”. 

Applying first = massive job search advantage - Jordan Mazer via Lars Schmidt

A simple LinkedIn hack to help you search for new jobs posted! And if you haven’t considered this, it’s important to apply early. Don’t delay applying for days!  

🤝 NETWORKING

 My Monday number is so important: 54% - Shelley Piedmont, My Career GPS

54% is how many workers got a job through a personal or professional connection according to a study by MyPerfectResume survey, August 2025. Shelley builds a strong case for networking in this post.

💻 LINKEDIN

4 New LinkedIn Tactics & More - Richard van der Blom 

Sometimes we need a reset or a new set of tactics in this case. Richard shares 4 things to try on LinkedIn based on the efforts made by his online community. Richard is publicly sharing the results his community had using these 4 tactics. You may not be using LinkedIn to sell your services, but you are trying to get attention. These tactics worked for his community. They can work for you. 

🗨 INTERVIEWING

Cameras off during video interview? - Heather Coleman Voss

What would you do if you joined an interview and one or more of the people you were interviewing with didn’t have their camera on? Isn’t the whole point to see one another? Well, there could be reasons for it. See what Heather recommends for employers.

But also, as a candidate interviewing, you have the right to ask questions about the interview format before the call. Also, never assume; ask why their cameras are off. How have you handled this? How would you handle this? Comment on Heather’s post for others to learn from. 

⚙ AI

Anthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI's role in the US and global economy - Anthropic

Who, why, and where are people using Claude.ai? Anthropic shares the data in their recent report.

• The US uses Claude far more than any other nation

• When adjusted by size of country, Israel and Singapore lead in Claude adoption relative to their working-age populations.

• Since December 2024, computer and mathematical uses of Claude have predominated among our categories, representing around 37-40% of conversations

• Educational instruction tasks have risen

• Tasks associated with the physical and social sciences have increased

• Management-related tasks have fallen

• Tasks related to business and financial operations have halved

• Software development remains the most common use in every single country we track

Visit the report and dive into data that will help you understand AI adoption. 

The rise of AI in job search (which tools are you using?) - Teegan A. Bartos

Teegan lists 6 different AI tools (they do different things). Are you using any of these or other AI tools you can share? Neither Teegan nor I are formally endorsing these tools, merely listing the top ones

💰 CAREER

Google’s top AI scientist says ‘learning how to learn’ will be next generation’s most needed skill - AP News

As difficult as it is to predict the future, this is a solid answer to ever-changing skills and technology. When it comes to AI, we all agree, this is one of the biggest changes we’ll face. This is a short article summarizing Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s DeepMind, conversation in Greece.

📶 RECRUITER PERSPECTIVE

Career Success: #1 rule in a failing job market - Nick Corcodilos, Ask the Headhunter

What piece of advice does Nick offer to someone early in their career? Well, it’s several pieces actually. Learn how headhunters work and use that same approach for yourself to find a new job. 

That specifically means to be nice and to be the hub. Please, read this because Nick tells a great story.

JOB SEARCH VISUAL

15 Leadership Stories You Need For Interviews

It's never too early to begin preparing your interview stories.

I'm a huge fan of STAR (but others use CAR, SOAR, or PAR). They're all the same.

⭐ Situation, Task, Actions, Results
🌟 Situation, Obstacle, Actions, Results
✨ Challenge, Actions, Results
💫 Problem, Actions, Results

If you are pursuing a leadership role, be sure to have specific stories to back up your leadership abilities.

Use these as a starting point. (See all 15 in the Insta post)

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