Practical advice from a recruiter's perspective.
Recruiters find candidates by searching LinkedIn for job titles, skills, and specialisms — which is why your headline, not your CV, decides whether you're found. A specialist recruiter explains how LinkedIn search works, what makes a headline searchable, and how to signal you're open to roles without alerting your current employer.
Read ArticleAn Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is a searchable database, not an AI gatekeeper that auto-rejects CVs — most systems reject no one automatically. A specialist recruiter explains where CVs actually fail (bad parsing and missing keywords), why keyword-stuffing backfires, and how to optimise your CV with a clean layout and accurate, job-description-matched language.
Read ArticleA recruiter's guide to what happens during the detailed CV read — why "responsible for" statements fail, how to write achievement-led bullets that show real impact, and what else recruiters are assessing once your CV clears the initial seven-second scan.
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