Notice my profile url, there are no trailing letters or numbers, this helps with “SEO” (Search Engine Optimization, or, how easily you will pop up when searched). Here is a quick youtube of how do to that.
It’s also important to have a nice profile picture, I don’t have professional headshots, I uploaded a few pictures/selfies into an AI generator, it wasn’t too spendy, and I think I got about 25 variations. This is a list of a few different sites that do that.
Having a good banner is also key, a few people in the bootcamp have hired someone off fiverr. I used Canva to create mine. It doesn’t need to be anything too fancy.
Also make sure you have a nice, succinct “About me” section. I used chat gpt to create mine. I just told it what I was doing, and that I’m a full stack Java dev, and the frameworks and languages I use.
Also note that I rarely repost anything (and you should hesitate to do that as well), only screen shots and recordings. For my recordings of my own code/projects, I use OBS_studio, once I have the video, I edit, trim, and add music with Clipchamp.
I also use a lot of hashtags, I will literally just google “top 10 hashtags for software developers” and use that as a reference.
I suggest following companies you are interested in, and when you are looking at those companies, you can search within that company and search things like “java”, “software”, etc. If you’d like some help with that hit me up! (this is Karen).
I also have my resume saved to my “featured posts” and my github linked as well.
While I am by no means an algorithm “guru”, I’ve done a bit of research, If you want your posts to have more impact/get more views, you can easily search “When is the best day and time to post to LinkedIn to get the furthest reach. Once you do, you might see that instead of posting Friday at 11pm, perhaps wait for Monday at 11am(or whatever is suggested.). When you are making a post, you can schedule it to be posted at a later time, if you look right next to the blue “post” button, there is a small image of a clock, if you click that it will give you that option. I am able to see exactly how many people have seen my posts/ what time got the most hits etc. because I have linkedIn Premium, not a necessity but it is nice, it’s about $35 U.S./month.
Endorse your fellow Coder’s Campus students skills (Done in the “skills” section near the bottom of their profile) on LinkedIn! Simply scroll to their skills section, and click “Endorse”. And ask them to endorse you! Here is an article breaking down how this helps you get visability during searches, and other details on endorsing.
you can find his coursework here. to access his coursework for FREE (thank you Trevor) You must message him on our slack first.