How to Let Recruiters Know You’re Open on Linkedin

LinkedIn is a professional social networking site and it helps you find a job as you can showcase in that your education, your certifications, your previous jobs, and your skills.

On this specific site, you can connect with recruiters and potential employers that are in search of an employee.

LinkedIn offers a lot of great features and one of those is the Open to work feature with which you let the recruiters and the potential employers know that you are open to work. Why is it such an important feature? Let’s find out.

Why is the Open to work feature so important and how can it help you?

The Open to work feature on LinkedIn is the feature that lets recruiters and potential employers know that you are open to work and considering that the main purpose of this site is finding a job it is one of the most important features.

Also, you can be more specific about the job posts and the locations that interest you and this way you will appear in the search results when recruiters and potential employers search for suitable employees.

Also, LinkedIn offers you the opportunity to choose who can see that you are open to work. You can either choose to be seen only from recruiters or for all LinkedIn members. This is absolutely up to you.

Now, let’s check out the process you need to follow if you want to let recruiters know you are open to work on LinkedIn.

In case you are using your desktop and you want to enable the Open to Work feature, you have to follow these steps:

• First, you need to go to your LinkedIn homepage and click the “Me” icon that appears at the top.
• Then, you have to click on the “View profile” option.
• After that, click the “Open to” option and then, click the “Finding a new job”.
• At this point, there must appear a pop-up window and you need to fill in the information needed. After you have finished providing this information, click “Add to profile”.

In case you are using your mobile, the process is the following:

• First, go to your LinkedIn profile and tap your profile picture.
• Then, tap the “View profile” option.
• After that, tap the “Open to” option that appears at the top.
• At this point, there must appear a pop-up window and you need to fill in the information needed. After you have finished with providing this information, tap “Add to profile”.

We need to mention something important, too. If you stop responding to InMails that are sent from recruiters, the LinkedIn team will email you to know if you are indeed still open to working.

If you do not reply to this email then the LinkedIn team will automatically remove the Open to work feature that you have enabled to your profile and then you will have to enable it again.

Conclusion

In this article, we have discussed one of the most important features of LinkedIn, which is the Open to work feature and we have gone through the process you need to follow if you want to let recruiters know that you are open to working on LinkedIn.

Rijon Islam