what your LinkedIn profile is missing #linkedintips #techjobs #softwareengineer

2 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Your LinkedIn headline should match keywords from job postings you want, not just your job title. Update it every 30 days to stay current. Skip "junior" or "aspiring" and list your actual skills like React or Python instead.

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You need to look at job descriptions of the opportunities you go for and try to hone in those keywords in your title. Your title portion is essentially like your SEO for your website, right? You may have to play with this every 30 days or so and get it lined up. Now the biggest thing, the question I get is, are there any junior devs in here? Raise your hand. Any junior devs? One? One junior dev. All right, so the one junior dev that's in here, I'm talking just to you. Everybody else can tune out for a second. Junior dev, you're gonna have to experiment with this, right? A lot of people do, at the Nashville Software School that I volunteer speaking at, A lot of them don't put junior, a lot of them don't put code school or aspiring developer. They literally just put software developer, C#, React, Python.