LinkedIn Profiles

Most executives treat their LinkedIn profile as an afterthought. They invest in a beautifully written résumé, then leave a five-year-old LinkedIn summary visible to every recruiter in the country. Your profile is doing the talking when you are not in the room. If it is working against you, no résumé will rescue the conversation.

I write LinkedIn profiles the same way I write executive résumés: from scratch, after a conversation with you, calibrated to the search terms recruiters at your level actually use.

Monique Thompson, Director

Is your LinkedIn profile working for you?

• Are you the only senior person in your network without a current profile?
• Have you been told your résumé and LinkedIn do not tell the same story?
• Do you want recruiters to find you, instead of the other way around?
• Are you about to start a confidential search, and need your profile ready before recruiters go looking for someone like you?

If any of those is a yes, your LinkedIn profile is the document I should be working on first.

What an executive LinkedIn profile includes

• A conversation about your search, your network, and the recruiters you want finding you
• A completely rewritten headline and About section, calibrated to executive search terms
• Strategic re-framing of your Experience section to match your résumé narrative
• A Skills section optimised for the search terms recruiters use at senior level
• Featured section recommendations: which posts, articles, or assets to surface
• A recommendations strategy: who to ask, in what order, and what to say
• Refinements after you have reviewed the draft inside LinkedIn

How it works alongside your résumé

If you are having both written. Monique writes the résumé first, then builds the LinkedIn profile so the two documents tell the same career story in different formats.

If you already have a résumé. Send it through with your enquiry, and Monique builds a LinkedIn profile that lines up with it.

If you only need LinkedIn. That is fine too. Many executives come back for a LinkedIn refresh some months after their résumé work.

Why your LinkedIn profile matters more at executive level

Recruiters at executive level do not source candidates from job boards. They run searches across LinkedIn. The profiles that surface, and surface in the right order, are the ones written deliberately around the search terms their clients are paying them to find.

A LinkedIn profile written by an executive themselves usually fails the search test. Not because the person is not qualified, but because they describe their work in the language of doing the job, not the language of being recruited for it. That gap is what Monique closes.

Ready to start?

LinkedIn profile work can be done on its own or alongside an executive résumé. View the full range of packages, or get in touch with Monique for a recommendation.