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The Invisible Problem
Recruiters do not browse LinkedIn. They search it, usually with a boolean string of job titles and skills, and the profiles that come back are the ones whose fields contain those terms.
Which means a headline reading “Looking for opportunities” is not modest, it is invisible. The recruiter searching for exactly what you do never sees you, and you never learn that the search happened.
The gap is not effort. It is that almost nobody has seen the query their profile is being matched against, so the parts they polish are rarely the parts being read.
02
The Fields That Are Read
Recruiter search does not read your profile evenly. These are the fields it weights, heaviest first — which is why the order you fix them in matters.
Headline
The highest-weight field in recruiter search, and the one most profiles waste on a job title alone. 220 characters; most people use twelve.
Job titles
Read almost as heavily as the headline. This is what your employer called the role, so it is the one field you cannot freely rewrite.
Skills
A direct search field. Worth pruning as much as adding — skills from a career you are leaving keep pulling you back towards it.
Experience body
Indexed, but lower weight. Two or three lines per role with an outcome, written for someone browsing on a phone.
About
Indexed and lower weight than people assume. Only the first two lines show before “see more”, so the first sentence has to work alone.
03
What To Change First
Fix the headline
Role plus what you actually do, in the words a recruiter would type. This single field changes more than the rest combined.
Prune the skills
Pin the three that match where you are going. Remove the ones anchoring you to where you have been.
Rewrite the first line of About
It is the only part shown before the fold. Make it a sentence, not a slogan.
04
In Practice
Passive candidates
A profile built to be found brings recruiters to you while you stay in your current role. This is the case where profile work has the highest return, because it is the only channel operating when you are not applying.
Career changers
The hard part of a change is that your profile argues for the job you are leaving. The rewriting reframes the same history towards where you are going — which is the same question the AI career coach answers about your résumé.
Freelancers and consultants
Clients search the same way recruiters do. A profile positioned around a specialty rather than a job title is what surfaces for the searches that turn into work.
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What ORQILO Does Today
- Sign in with LinkedIn
- Available — used for authentication only
- Career record
- Available — built from your résumé, and what any future rewrite would draw on
- Job posting analysis on LinkedIn
- Available via the Chrome extension
- Automated headline or About rewriting
- Not available today
- Posting, connecting or messaging on your behalf
- Not offered, and not planned
The career record behind all of it is the same one the résumé builder and the career roadmap read, so your profile and your résumé cannot end up telling different stories.
06
Questions
How do recruiters actually search LinkedIn?
With a boolean string of job titles and skills, usually inside LinkedIn Recruiter. That search reads your headline and job titles most heavily, then skills and the body of your experience entries. It is why the words in your headline matter more than the words in your About section.
What is the most important field to change?
The headline. You have 220 characters and most profiles spend twelve of them on a job title. Naming the role plus what you actually do puts several searchable terms in the highest-weight field on the profile.
Does ORQILO rewrite my LinkedIn profile for me?
Not today. ORQILO holds the career record a rewrite would draw on, and its Chrome extension reads job postings on LinkedIn, but automated headline or About rewriting is not a shipped feature. This page is a guide to doing it yourself, and it says so rather than implying otherwise.
Does posting more often help me get found?
It affects your feed reach, not whether you appear in a recruiter search. Those are two different systems, and profile fields drive the one that matters for being contacted about a role.
What does “Sign in with LinkedIn” give ORQILO?
Your name, email and profile picture, for authentication only. It does not read your connections, your posts or your profile content, and it never posts, connects or messages on your behalf.