Original article by: **James Hudson | Summarized for Toggl**

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In this Notion page, we’ll explain how recruiters actually use the platform, and in doing so show you how you can become more discoverable:

Because the truth is, the easiest way to find a job is for a recruiter to find you.

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Becoming More Discoverable

LinkedIn engineers built a range of tools and algorithms to help us find you. Knowing how we use these tools can help you maximize your presence on the platform. At an absolute minimum you should:

1. Upload your resume (you can do this on the “jobs” tab under “application settings”) and be sure to select yes on the “share your resume data with recruiters” toggle
2. Fully populate your career history on your profile
3. Utilize the skills functionality (e.g. if you’re a Project Manager your skills might include Agile, Scrum, Visio, Notion, etc.)

Understanding The Recruiters’ Perspective

Across the whole of LinkedIn, the average recruiter InMail response rate is 30%, and that includes folks responding to say they’re not interested. As such, for every search recruiters perform, LinkedIn shows subsets of candidates that “are more likely to respond” or that are “engaged with our talent brand.”

To be included in these cuts, you should:

1. Follow the pages of the organizations you you’d like to work at (some corporate pages have additional functionality that allows you to indicate you’d like to work there)
2. Follow employees at the organizations you’d like to work at
3. Interact (like, comment, re-post) with content shared directly by the company, or by the employees there that you follow
4. simply responding to a recruiters’ messages puts you in the 70th percentile, so it’s good practice to do this even if you’re not looking

Open To Work Feature

The feature has two different options that allow you to indicate you’re open to opportunities, and both yield extremely positive results. The first option allows you to notify recruiters only that you’re in the market for a new job. The second option is the green “open to work” banner that is visible to all users.

To enable #OpenToWork from your LinkedIn profile:

1. Tap your profile picture > View Profile.
2. Tap the Open to button in your introduction card (at the top of your profile).
3. Provide the requested information in the screen that appears. ...
4. Tap Add to profile.