What a LinkedIn Strategist Does That a Template Never Will
What does a LinkedIn strategist actually do? More than hand you a template. The real work is surfacing the career details you'd never think to include.
Practical posts on profile optimization, personal branding, and the strategy questions most LinkedIn advice skips. Written for people who want to understand the why, not just the what.
What does a LinkedIn strategist actually do? More than hand you a template. The real work is surfacing the career details you'd never think to include.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
Most professionals only update their LinkedIn profile when something goes wrong. Here's why the best time to update is when you don't have to.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
She went to the same conference for 20 years and always left with a handful of cards. Then she rebuilt her LinkedIn profile. Here's what changed.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
'Team Lead' could mean a barista or a VP running a $140M budget. Your LinkedIn headline needs context, or you're invisible to the marketplace.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
A client booked therapy before our first session. Because owning your accomplishments on LinkedIn is harder than it looks. Here's what happened next.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
What's the difference between a LinkedIn profile and a resume? A resume is a 2D snapshot. Your profile should be a 3D engagement tool. Here's how.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
What does 'optimizing' a LinkedIn profile actually mean? It speaks two languages: AI and the human eye. Keywords get you found; your story gets you chosen.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
Downgrading your job title on LinkedIn to seem less pretentious? Two clients tried it. One owned her title and found work. The other is still looking.
LinkedIn Profile Sections
What skills should you cut from your LinkedIn profile? Start with 'Microsoft Word.' Those 100 skill slots are a ceiling, not a goal, and most are clutter.
LinkedIn Profile Sections
What LinkedIn sections do most people leave empty? Featured, Services, and Projects. All free, all proof you're worth the conversation, all skipped.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
Most LinkedIn advice doesn't actually work. After the e-books, the experts, and endless profile reviews, here's what's really broken and how I figured it out.
LinkedIn Profile Strategy
Why is working on your own LinkedIn profile so hard? It's not writer's block. You're too close to your own story to see it. That's the whole problem.
LinkedIn Profile Sections
No LinkedIn company page? That gray box next to your job title is a bad look. And the algorithm treats it as a dead end. The fix takes 15 minutes.
LinkedIn Profile Sections
Nobody reads your whole LinkedIn profile. They scan three sections — headshot, banner, headline — and decide in seconds. Here's how to survive the scan.
LinkedIn Profile Sections
You're positioning your LinkedIn About section all wrong. It's not an introduction; it's your closing argument. Here's how to write it.
Profile Strategy
Why do candidates get rejected after great interviews? It could be your LinkedIn profile the recruiter checked afterward.
Profile Strategy
When career coaches treat LinkedIn like a resume, the client pays. Here's how that bad advice hurt one supply chain analyst's profile.
LinkedIn Profile Sections
Most LinkedIn headlines read like a stack of business cards taped together. Boring. Corporate. Forgettable. One small, slightly weird fix can change that.
Profile Strategy
Most people default to their job title as their LinkedIn headline. Here's why that's costing them, and what to use instead.
Engagement
My invitation to join the 30-day trust score recovery challenge. The rules, the tracking, and how we can teach the algorithm together.
Engagement
How I'm measuring my 30-day trust score recovery plan: the spreadsheet, the anecdotal patterns, and the success metrics I'm aiming for.
Engagement
My 30-day plan to recover reach and engagement on LinkedIn. Five concrete rules, the constraints behind each one, and where I'm struggling to follow them.
Algorithm
My impressions tanked after LinkedIn's June 2025 update. Here's why I'm following new rules to rebuild — even though the bias problem is real.
Bias & Equity
Originally shared on LinkedIn as an unattributed experiment, this post by Jane Evans hits something the algorithm hides: women, POC, and DEI voices are being quietly silenced.
Algorithm
LinkedIn has a 'trust score' nobody talks about. Turns out mine is in trouble. Here's what I've been doing wrong and the 30-day experiment to fix it.
Why LinkedIn
Founders keep telling me LinkedIn doesn't work for their business. It does. They just aren't showing up for it.
Bias & Equity
Cindy Gallop, Jane Evans, Stephen McGinnis, and Matt Lawton ran an experiment. The numbers were startling. Here's what it tells us about the algorithm.
Bias & Equity
The bias is real. The 'goodbye cruel world' posts are piling up. The question is whether leaving actually helps — or just makes it worse.
Bias & Equity
Two women posted. One told a joke, the other shared strategy. Guess which one LinkedIn prioritized.
Profile Strategy
LinkedIn recommendations are social proof. Most people are happy to write one. You just have to ask.
Why LinkedIn
Everyone checks your LinkedIn before they engage with you. They just don't admit it. Here's why your profile has to be ready for the people you'll never know are looking.
Engagement
Tired of junk in your LinkedIn feed? You can train the algorithm. Three strategic moves to remove distractions and surface the content you actually want.
Algorithm
LinkedIn quietly changed its algorithm. Here's what shifted, who it hurts most, and what you can do about it.
Security
LinkedIn encourages you to share more personal information than is safe. Here's exactly what to remove from your profile right now to protect yourself.
Engagement
Most LinkedIn engagement advice is recycled from other platforms. Here's what actually works on LinkedIn, and what to ignore.
Real Talk
I never set out to be a LinkedIn expert. I just wanted a profile that actually worked. After six months of figuring it out the hard way, here's what changed.
Why LinkedIn
You can skip Instagram. You can quit Twitter. But LinkedIn isn't optional. And most people are still using it wrong.