linkedin profile optimization

Stand Out on LinkedIn With LinkedIn Profile Optimization

Show the World What You Have To Offer

Don’t Be Overshadowed Online

LinkedIn is a vital tool for business people. Whether you’re looking for a job or procuring clients for your business, you can’t afford a profile that doesn’t attract viewers. With LinkedIn profile optimization, avoid common mistakes such as:

  • Misusing keywords and phrases in your profile
  • Not focusing on what you accomplished in previous jobs
  • Highlighting the wrong skills for the jobs you want
  • Miscommunicating your strengths as an employee
  • Focusing on the wrong career fields for your aptitudes
  • Being inauthentic and not showing your personal and professional aptitudes

With the Help of Career Upside, You Will:

Pitch a complete picture of your whole person during your job search.

Tell your career story on LinkedIn, not just reiterate your resume.

Curate a profile that displays your professional skills and benefits you bring to a company.

Display your best work to prove why you will make a great employee.

Leverage the networking power of a professionally developed profile.

Increase your relevance to recruiters and potential business connections.

 

We Believe That You Have Unique Strengths

 

Career Upside

Executive & Career Coaching

Scientifically proven to boost employment successes and opportunities.

  • 20+ years of executive and career coaching
  • Birkman Certified Professional
  • Emory Executive Coaching Diploma
 
Experienced Leader with Fortune 500 Companies
 
Todd

Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile with Birkman Insights to Craft an Authentic Career Story

Your professional story is more than just a timeline of jobs—it reflects your values, aspirations, and strengths. When employers look at your profile, they should see a complete picture of who you are, not just your roles. The Birkman Method helps by identifying your motivators, behavioral strengths, and communication and sales style, giving you a clear framework to tell your career story authentically.

With Birkman's insights, we’ll craft a narrative that integrates:

  • Your passions and personal values—what drives you professionally?
  • Your unique strengths—do you excel in leadership, problem-solving, or collaboration?
  • Your ideal work environment—do you thrive in structured settings or prefer creative flexibility?

By incorporating your Birkman results into your story, you’ll stand out as a well-rounded, self-aware candidate offering more than technical expertise—you bring a unique perspective and approach to work.

Craft a Standout LinkedIn Profile with Insights from the Birkman Method

Your LinkedIn profile is more than an online resume—it’s a dynamic storytelling platform. While resumes focus on facts and brevity, LinkedIn allows you to showcase your personality, passions, and motivations.

The Birkman Method helps uncover:

  • What energizes you in your work—do you thrive on challenges, collaboration, or autonomy?
  • How do you naturally approach problem-solving—are you a big-picture strategist or a detail-driven executor?
  • Your preferred leadership and communication style—do you lead through structure, influence, or innovation?

Using these insights, we’ll craft a compelling LinkedIn headline, summary, and experience descriptions that highlight your accomplishments while revealing the passion and purpose behind your career choices. As part of our comprehensive LinkedIn profile optimization, we’ll ensure every section, from your profile photo and banner to your skills, endorsements, and recommendations, works cohesively to present a strong personal brand. This approach draws in recruiters and employers, giving them a deeper understanding of who you are and why you’re the right fit.

Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile to Highlight Your Skills and Professional Contributions

Your LinkedIn profile should showcase the value you bring to potential employers. The Birkman Method helps pinpoint:

  • Your top strengths and work style—Are you an analytical problem solver, strategic thinker, or creative innovator?
  • Your natural leadership and collaboration preferences—Do you thrive in team-based projects, structured environments, or autonomous roles?
  • The soft skills that set you apart—Are you excellent at mentoring, negotiating, or driving change?

We’ll use Birkman insights to refine your skills section, endorsements, and content, ensuring your profile is optimized with industry-relevant keywords and demonstrates the real impact of your work. This approach makes your profile more attractive to recruiters and hiring managers looking for top talent.

Display Your Best Work

One of LinkedIn’s most powerful features is the ability to showcase your work, whether it’s projects, presentations, articles, or portfolios. But how do you decide what to feature?

Using Birkman insights, we’ll select work that best aligns with your strengths, problem-solving approach, and career goals. For example:

  • If Birkman reveals you thrive in strategy and innovation, we’ll highlight thought leadership articles, market research, or product development projects.
  • If you’re highly collaborative, we’ll showcase team-driven initiatives, leadership in cross-functional projects, or successful partnerships.
  • If you excel at data and analytics, we’ll feature case studies, reports, or dashboards demonstrating measurable impact.

Through LinkedIn profile optimization, you’ll leave a lasting impression on recruiters and hiring managers by showcasing tangible examples that reflect your unique Birkman strengths. Career Upside will design every section of your profile to reinforce these qualities, turning insights into impact.

Leverage the Networking Power of LinkedIn

Networking is critical to career growth, and LinkedIn makes it easy to build meaningful professional relationships. However, many professionals struggle with connecting authentically.

The Birkman Method helps you understand:

  • Your natural networking and job search style—Do you prefer one-on-one conversations, group discussions, or online engagement?
  • How you build rapport best—Are you more effective in direct communication or relationship-building over time?
  • What kind of professional communities energize you—Do you thrive in fast-paced, innovative groups or structured, knowledge-driven environments?

With this knowledge, we’ll develop a targeted LinkedIn networking strategy, helping you:

  • Join the right industry groups
  • Engage with content that aligns with your strengths
  • Reach out to professionals in a way that feels authentic to you

Using Birkman-backed networking strategies, you’ll expand your reach, build credibility, and uncover hidden career opportunities that recruiters might not publicly advertise.

Increase Your Relevance to Recruiters and Business Connections

Recruiters rely on LinkedIn searches to find candidates, and your profile needs to be optimized to ensure you appear in the right searches. The Birkman Method helps by identifying:

  • The keywords that best represent your skills and strengths
  • How to frame your career trajectory in a way that resonates with hiring managers
  • What roles best fit your work style and career preferences

By integrating Birkman-based insights into your headline, summary, and skills section, we’ll increase your visibility to recruiters searching for talent like you.

Additionally, engaging on LinkedIn—by sharing industry insights, commenting on relevant posts, and demonstrating expertise in your field—boosts your credibility and relevance. A well-maintained, Birkman-optimized profile attracts recruiters and strengthens business connections, partnerships, and career opportunities.

"Todd has been an invaluable resource during my unexpected job search. He administered the Birkman Method skills assessment and spent over an hour walking me through the various reports to help me understand my strengths so I could effectively communicate those through my resume. His insight on how best to position my experience for corporate HR and hiring managers greatly improved my resume. Searching for a new job is never a pleasant experience but working with Todd has helped me to feel much better prepared to be successful in that endeavor."

Linda Healan, Account Director, Modo Modo Agency

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