Alternatives to announcing your job search in your headlineĪn alternative (or supplement) to the ‘availability’ headline is to add a line to your summary, indicating your readiness for new opportunities. You could opt to use every one of those 120 characters to promote your offering. Of course, you don’t have to advertise your availability in a headline. > Career Target: (add target role title) | (add keywords) > (add target role title) who (solves what problem) for (who) | Seeking new opportunities > (add target role title) now ready for my next (add functions / skills) role > (add target role title) ready to (add benefit you deliver) for (company or client descriptor) These formulas may help to get you started: PRINCE2 Project Manager Seeking New Challenge | Keen to Support Timely, Quality Delivery of IT Transformation ProgrammesĮxecutive MBA Graduate, XYZ Business School | Seeking a Challenging Internship with a Leading Financial Services Company The following 120-character headlines combine both, telling the reader more about the candidate and what they want to do: To be effective, these words should be paired with phrasing that tells who you are, where you are heading, and what you plan to do there. But what are they selling? Wouldn’t a more effective sales tactic be to focus on the quality of the offering? ‘Mouth-watering juicy peaches!’ ‘Sweet cherries here!’ Rather than focusing on your employment status (Unemployed/Available), shouldn’t you use this space to sell your value proposition to your next employer? ‘Available today!’, the placards might say. Going back to the stall analogy, it’s the equivalent of having ‘Buy here!’, ‘Buy now!’ signs all over your produce. You may think that your summary and experience sections give the required context but, remember, they don’t show up in search results and, unless your headline hooks your target, these sections will never get seen. They convey nothing, other than the fact you don’t currently have a job. > Such wording can make you appear vulnerable and even desperate, especially if your ‘actively seeking’ headline hangs around LinkedIn for a while.Īs I see it, the main problem with these phrases is that in isolation, without any context, they just aren’t meaningful to your target reader. > Using these phrases eats into your 120-character headline allocation, space you can use to present keywords or to share the benefit you can deliver, if hired. > Some recruiters do search for active candidates who are ‘seeking’ or ‘available’ along with relevant keywords as a way to source available talent. > If you don’t tell your network and recruiters you are available, how will they know? Let me present some arguments for and against this approach. > Available for work / employment / permanent and contract opportunities > Actively seeking work / employment / a new role / the next challenge ![]() > Looking for / open to / available for / seeking / considering new opportunities / roles Some LinkedIn members do use their headline to state exactly this. Obviously, you should make the most of the opportunity your headline presents to nail your first impression but, when you are openly job-seeking, should you use it to indicate your availability for opportunities? At it’s worst, it will tell them nothing, or nothing of interest, causing them to scroll on by. ![]() At its best, this 120-character descriptive field will entice the reader to visit your profile and find out more. It makes sense to claim your profile and use it to your advantage.Ī key element of your LinkedIn profile is your headline, which appears in search results alongside your name, photo, location, and industry. Your network is there and recruiters too, actively searching for talent in your field. When you are openly job-searching, LinkedIn is a fantastic platform to set out your stall.
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