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LinkedIn's algorithm seems to be related to how active you are. One step you could try is reaching out to any recruiters you may have added over the years and a

LinkedIn's algorithm seems to be related to how active you are. One step you could try is reaching out to any recruiters you may have added over the years and ask them if they know of any open positions you might be a good fit for. If you haven't added any you might be able to look in your feed to see if there are any advertising jobs and reach out to them from there. I know LinkedIn and recruiters get kind of a bad rap but I really like working with them over applying the old fashioned way. You get more phone calls but it beats filling out forms. If you get multiple recuriters working on your behalf you can setup situations where you try to interview for lots of companies at once in batches. If you're currently unemployed and have the time for that, some companies will eliminate time consuming steps in their interview process to hire you before one of the other companies does. I haven't looked in the last few months but this is most of my strategy for finding good jobs without having to bother with annoying things like job applications or too many interviews. Long term an additional thing you can do to boost this is continue to add recruiters on linkedin even when you're not actively looking. I don't enjoy the job search, so I let the recruiters do it for me. You can be pretty straightforward with them too because they're incentivized to get you a job with commissions. You might be surprised with what they come back with if you tell them very explicitly what you're looking for (money, remote, type of interview, etc). Of course the more recruiters you work with the more likely some of them will be able to turn up these roles. I also like this system because it ensure you are only working with companies extremely motivated to hire. At the point where a company has hired an external recruiter, they have already spent thousands of dollars to try to hire you, failed, and now they're spending thousands more in commission to send someone out into the wild to find them someone they can please hire. One last thing I'll throw out if you're still having trouble past that or if that strategy is unpalatable to you. You could pick up a couple AWS certifications. They aren't easy, but they aren't that hard either. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate AWS Certified Developer These certs are extremely similar and if you study for one you can do just a little more and pass the other too. Cloud skills are in especially high demand and some companies agreements with AWS even require them to employ a minimum number of people with AWS certs. The AWS certs in particular are nice because they are quite cheap compared to many certifications. $150 each for the 2 I mentioned. You'll want study materials as well. I really liked the courses offered by acloudguru which I believe is now owned by linux academy. https://acloudguru.com/forums/certified-solutions-architect-associate https://acloudguru.com/forums/certified-solutions-architect-... https://acloudguru.com/course/aws-certified-developer-associate https://acloudguru.com/course/aws-certified-developer-associ... In any case sorry you're in that situation. Job change is always stressful, especially when it doesn't go smooth. Good luck!

mywittyname 4y ago
> LinkedIn's algorithm seems to be related to how active you are. I used to keep a spreadsheet of what dates I'd log in, and what actions I'd take, then I'd wait for the summary email from LI and put the results in it. Anecdotally, after logging into LI and making minor edits to my profile, the "number of times you've appeared in search results" emails I receive indicate a 2-3x increase over baseline. By minor edits, I mean changing punctuation or other small changes to a sentence or two. Major edits would dramatically increase my search results, such as adding certifications, but that's to be expected.
anon50118810 4y ago
OP here. I've had basically no response from the various third-party recruiters I've contacted, compared to at least some response to my direct applications to specific positions. Letting recruiters do your job search for you sounds like a great way to go though if that's an option for you. I've gotten certificates in the past and used to put them on my resume or LinkedIn, now I just leave them off. They're so minor compared to the rest of the stuff on my resume that realistically they aren't going to move the needle. In fact, no offense intended, but it feels like a junior move given my existing background, like putting my high school on my resume. I can see them being really helpful for some people, though.

mywittyname 4y ago

> LinkedIn's algorithm seems to be related to how active you are. I used to keep a spreadsheet of what dates I'd log in, and what actions I'd take, then I'd wait for the summary email from LI and put the results in it. Anecdotally, after logging into LI and making minor edits to my profile, the "number of times you've appeared in search results" emails I receive indicate a 2-3x increase over baseline. By minor edits, I mean changing punctuation or other small changes to a sentence or two. Major edits would dramatically increase my search results, such as adding certifications, but that's to be expected.

anon50118810 4y ago

OP here. I've had basically no response from the various third-party recruiters I've contacted, compared to at least some response to my direct applications to specific positions. Letting recruiters do your job search for you sounds like a great way to go though if that's an option for you. I've gotten certificates in the past and used to put them on my resume or LinkedIn, now I just leave them off. They're so minor compared to the rest of the stuff on my resume that realistically they aren't going to move the needle. In fact, no offense intended, but it feels like a junior move given my existing background, like putting my high school on my resume. I can see them being really helpful for some people, though.