Hey, what's going on? Welcome back to my channel. My name is Cindy Makita-Dodd. And in today's
video, I'm going to walk you through a much requested video and tutorial on LinkedIn Settings.
How to actually boost the visibility and views on your LinkedIn profile with these five specific
settings, you wanna make sure that these settings are enabled on your profile to get maximum
exposure and visibility coming to you. Before we get into it, make sure that you like this
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into this tutorial. How do you use LinkedIn settings to boost visibility to your profile?
Okay. So I'm on LinkedIn. I am going to actually do everything inside my LinkedIn profile,
but more specifically all the edits that we're going to make and the settings that we are going
to update are going to take place in the settings and privacy section of our account. So I'm gonna
head over there. I'm gonna click settings and privacy. I'm gonna start right at the top with
account preferences. And the first thing I want to edit is my location. So I'm gonna click the first
option, that's name, location, and industry. And I'm gonna click change. It's gonna take me
to the front of my profile. I wanna scroll down all the way to the part where it says location.
You could see, I have the country postal code and then here, where it says city and district.
I want you to change this to the biggest city or metropolitan area. And in my case,
it's the Miami Fort Lauderdale area. I wanna enable that. So if potentially I had Miami,
Florida before, I wanna make sure that it's the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. So just change it to
the largest city or metropolitan area, and then click save. What this actually allows
you to do is to be searchable, um, or rather to be found in more search results. So here's
a quick example of this in action. If I am searching for project managers in Miami,
Florida, right? Which is the smaller area or the smaller city? I just got 23,000 results. However,
if I now search for project managers and I change this to the largest metropolitan area,
which is the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, and I click show results, I now have 70,000 results.
So you can actually be found in more searches by simply choosing the largest metropolitan area
in your specific city or your state. Okay. Let's head back over to our LinkedIn
profile, back to our settings and privacy. Again, we are in account preferences this time. I want to
disable “people also viewed”. So I'm gonna scroll down to the bottom here where it says people also
viewed display people also viewed box on your profile page. You want that to be off and I'm
gonna show you why. If I go back to my LinkedIn profile, I'm gonna go over here. If I'm in my
profile on the right hand side here, there could be a setting that says people also viewed. This
means that other people that are potentially in my niche or have similar profiles to mine, they're
gonna appear on my profile. So if a recruiter is on here and they see somebody that has, um,
a job title or a headline that appeals to them, they can easily click outside of my profile.
We want to keep recruiters and employers and anyone else that's viewing our profile
on our profile as long as possible. So you actually wanna disable people also viewed. Um,
so it's not gonna pop up here. Number three, let's head back to our settings and privacy.
Now I'm on visibility and I want to edit my public profile settings. So I'm going to scroll down,
oh, here it is. Edit your public profile. So I'm gonna change this. And there's a few things I
want to edit here. First, make sure that your URL is customized. So by default, LinkedIn is
going to give you a regular URL. It often has, um, different letters and numbers, but keep in
mind that you can actually customize it. So just by clicking that pencil and editing it to be first
and last name or something really simple, that's easy to find you. It's actually really helpful.
It makes your profile URL look a lot neater. And also when you add it to your resume, you
can just add the simple URL that also looks good. So I'm gonna click save. I also then want to edit
some visibility settings here. So just because my profile is public and I do recommend having your
profile public, it does make you open to, um, new networks, new opportunities. If your profile is on
public mode, which mine is over here, but you also want to edit what people outside of LinkedIn could
potentially see regarding your LinkedIn profile. So here I have almost all of my settings enabled.
I don't mind what people see outside of LinkedIn. Um, I do have hidden my articles and activity.
I don't necessarily want people to see when I comment on somebody else's post or the likes.
So you can play around and see what you prefer about actually having these public or not
public. But with regards to your profiles' public visibility, I do recommend leaving that on. Let's
head over to LinkedIn. Remember everything we're doing is taking place in settings and privacy.
We're going back into visibility and we're gonna have a look at sharing profile updates with your
network. So here, where it says visibility of your LinkedIn activity, share profile updates
with your network. I like to toggle this as no every time you have a job update or change or
work anniversary. I don't like this to necessarily be published unless I specifically create a post
about it. So to avoid, um, LinkedIn unnecessarily, notifying your network when you have an update,
you could just toggle this as no, and then you can actually be intentional about what updates you
do share with your network. Now let's head over to data privacy, here you want to edit your job
seeking preferences. So I'm gonna click here. All of these are different options that you can edit
with regards to your job, seeking preferences on LinkedIn. So take some time to go through
these and actually have a look at what you wanna edit. This is all personal information. However,
I'm gonna go back to LinkedIn and I actually want to edit my open-to-work settings. So I'm gonna go
to the front of my LinkedIn profile. I'm going to click the blue button that says open-to I'm gonna
click “finding a new job”. And these preferences that I add here, all these job preferences
are going to let recruiters know that I'm open to work. So on the backend of LinkedIn recruiters can
actually see the type of roles I'm interested in the locations I want to potentially work in
or move to. Um, and this is all really, really important information if you want to be found
by recruiters on LinkedIn, first, start off with the job titles you wanna be found for. I could
say something like recruitment specialist, career specialist, et cetera, workplaces.
Do you wanna work onsite hybrid or remotely. Job locations, these are onsite. Where would I
potentially be open to moving to? And remember we're choosing the metropolitan area super,
super important here. Start date. You can select whether you are looking to start immediately,
which means you are actively applying, or if you are flexible. And then I can also select the
job types like full-time contract part-time, et cetera. Here. I can also choose who sees that I'm
open to work. So here is the important part. If I only want recruiters to know, so maybe I'm doing
a quote and quote stealth job search means I don't want my current employer to know I'm job seeking,
I would then select recruiters only. So this means only recruiters or LinkedIn recruiters will be
able to see that I'm open to work if I'm okay with my entire network, knowing that I'm open to work,
which also does have its benefits because you're opening yourself up to more people
potentially that can refer you to work, et cetera. I can also select all LinkedIn
members. If I do that, keep in mind that the open-to-work ring is then going to appear on
my profile picture. So select what it is that you want with regards to your job preferences,
make sure that these are constantly updated. So for example, I was actively applying at
first and now I'm flexible. I'm casually browsing. Just go ahead and update these settings as well
as your job preferences. And then I'm going to click add to profile and there you have it.
Those are the five LinkedIn settings that you need to update today to supercharge your job search,
to get more views to your profile and to ensure that recruiters and other employers can actually
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