LinkedIn Profile Checker: Will Recruiters Find You?
Recruiters find people on LinkedIn by searching for a job title, a location and skills. If your profile doesn't contain those words, you don't show up. Enter the job you want, upload your LinkedIn PDF or paste your profile, click Analyse, and see which searches miss you, what to fix first and an AI rewrite of your headline.
1. The job you want
2. Your LinkedIn profile
Or paste each section:
Drag in your PDF or paste at least your headline, then click Analyse.
How it works
1.Say what job you want
Job title, location, top skills. These are the keywords a recruiter types into LinkedIn search. Use the common job title and the skills that show up in most job ads for that role.
2.Upload your LinkedIn PDF or paste your profile
Profile → More (or Resources) → Save to PDF. Drag the PDF onto the box and it fills in your headline, location, About, skills and languages. Then tick the settings only you can see, like Open to Work.
3.Click Analyse and see what to fix
Free account. Score, missing keywords and AI rewrites. Create a free account to see your result: the Boolean search a recruiter would run for your role, which words your profile is missing, an 8-point score with the biggest fixes first, and an AI rewrite of your headline and the start of your About.
How recruiters search LinkedIn
Most recruiters start with a keyword search, often written as a Boolean query. To find a full stack developer in London who knows JavaScript and CSS, they might type:
"full stack developer" AND "london" AND javascript AND css
LinkedIn only returns profiles that contain those words. So the words on your profile decide whether you appear at all, before anyone reads it. This checker builds that search from your target job and shows which words your profile is missing.
The 8 things this checks
The score is out of 100. Each part is something that changes whether a recruiter finds you, sees your full profile, or can reach you.
- Headline (20): your target job title, word for word, near the start. The common title, so “Software Engineer”, not “SDE II”.
- Skills (20): the top skills for your target role in your headline, your About and, most of all, your Skills section.
- Spoken languages (8): every language you speak, because recruiters filter by language.
- Open to Work (12): switched on, with every location you can work in and your target job titles.
- Public profile (10): photo and all sections visible on the version logged-out visitors and Google see.
- Contact email (12): an email address in your About, because recruiters have a limited number of InMails.
- Activity (10): following your target companies, commenting on their posts, and sharing your own.
- Reply to messages (8): answering recruiters, even to say no, so you look active and likely to respond.
Why upload the PDF instead of pasting a URL?
LinkedIn shows logged-out visitors, and any tool that fetches your URL, little more than your name and headline, and it blocks automated reading of profiles. The “Save to PDF” export is LinkedIn's own copy of your profile. Open your profile, click More (on some accounts it's under Resources), choose Save to PDF, and drop the file here. The PDF only includes your top 3 skills, so paste the rest of your Skills list for an accurate score.
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