So, the unfortunate truth is that the #1 recruiting tool in the industry is LinkedIn and recruiters aren't going to look farther than LinkedIn 95% of the time.

So, the unfortunate truth is that the #1 recruiting tool in the industry is LinkedIn and recruiters aren't going to look farther than LinkedIn 95% of the time. They are also going to take an application and then look up the person on LinkedIn and, if they don't see any information, they are going to pass more often than not. I know you don't want to do it, but if you are serious about finding new work then I'd strongly urge you to make your LinkedIn shine. You can always remove it after you find a new job. What are recruiters going to look for? First and foremost it's going to be about technology affinity. If they work for a Java shop, they are going to be looking for people with Java or C# backgrounds. If it's a ruby shop then for ruby, python, node.js, etc. Second, they are going to look to see if what you've actually done matches what they are looking for. Are they looking for someone to do machine learning pipelines? Are they looking to decompose a monolith into microservices? Those should show up in your descriptions. Third, and probably way less important for many places, but they are also going to look for your company history affinity. Do they think of themselves as "IBM-lite"? Then they'll look for people who have lots of big company experience. Are they a rapidly growing Rails shop? They are going to look for places like Shopify, Stripe, etc. If they can't find you on LinkedIn, you are putting yourself in a bit of a hole. Not one you can't get out of and be successful without, but it's a handicap. As an example, and not to try to be self promoting, I received a notification this morning that 445 people had viewed my LinkedIn last week (I'm being generous and assuming LinkedIn is telling the truth here...i know i know). I've been in the industry for 20 years. I'm mgmt now, which makes it slightly different, but out of the 445 views I received 10 or so solicitations for jobs, 5 or 6 people reaching out looking for a job, and 100 or so sales pitches. Anyway, I wish you luck. I'm hiring (rails, monolith -> SOA, postgres, APIs, etc). Happy to chat if you want to learn more.