Name: This is how Linkedin tells recruiters that you are lying
Uploaded: 2026-03-19T01:41:41.000Z
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How LinkedIn tells recruiter that you are lying two years ago My LinkedIn profile had only two years of experience, but

I wanted a senior level job, but I could not prove my expertise.

My CV was rejected by automatic filters because of my years of experience.

Standard advice like searching via networking didn't work for me.

I did not have enough connections to send my CV directly to a team lead.

My CV got filled around even before a human could take a look at it.

So I stretched my existing experience to five years.

So now my profile passes filters to a senior level vacancies.

Spoiler I already got a senior level job and I worked there for 10 months.

When recruiters called me, they often got confused when they read my profile aloud.

I explained every time that this was some kind of mistake.

I said I'm looking at my profile right now and I see five years of experience.

I I manage to confuse recruiters every time.

How is this possible that the recruiter sees a different version of my profile?

This video is about how to show a recruiter what you want him to see.

It is not always what your LinkedIn profile displays.

The fact is the recruiter doesn't see your public profile.

They see the data saved in a special app.

So if you for example uploaded different versions of your resume to LinkedIn over time, the recruiter might not see the best version of it.

So how LinkedIn uses your data When a candidate applies for a job job using Easy Apply button, they upload their resume.

It saves all the data from it to a special app called Recruiter.

Recruiters use this app to hire employees.

So when recruiters search for candidates they see a static data from the resume.

They do not see your profile from the web version.

If you updated your public profile but didn't change your resume, there will be a conflict in data.

To protect yourself from this data conflict forever, you need to do following steps.

First is go to Security and Privacy in your profile.

Then click on Data Privacy and choose the Job application settings.

You should delete all of them then turn off.

Share your resume data with all recruiters.

This is if you want the recruiters always see your public profile data.

Those changes will take effect only between one or two days.

LinkedIn updates its search index once a day.

I actually had to study the Recruiter interface from inside.

So now I'm going to share my results and I'm going to tell you from where all those abstract filters are coming from.

I'll show you how they filter you by location and I will show you all the tools the recruiter uses.

So what the recruiter uses as mentioned, Recruiter on LinkedIn doesn't use the same search that you use to search for people on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn provides a special tool called the Recruiter.

Recruiter subscription costs $1,000 per month and you cannot simply buy it.

You need to pass a series of calls with LinkedIn team.

It only costs $170 and it is available for normal people.

I bought and used this Lite version, but what's the difference between Recruiter and Recruiter Lite?

Recru provides you a search options with artificial intelligence.

It has more filters, it allows you to send more emails per month.

It also writes personalized messages using AI.

It has some tools for teamwork to analyze the performance of the whole team of recruiters and it also connects with ats and other LinkedIn products.

Recruiter Lite is for people who hire employees irregularly.

It provides twice as less search filters as recruiter, but

it gives the ability to send a message to friend of a friend contact and it gives less emails per month.

But it's not important important for this video.

What's interesting is I already faced hypocrisy from here.

The recruiter simply selects all the candidates in inbox.

Then he spams each of them with the AI generated message from here.

I just wanted to remind you, according to recruiters and career experts, using AI can make your resume stand out for the wrong reasons.

Also Recruiter says if I see a cover letter that in my opinion is clearly written by ChatGPT, I ask a question.

Do you have the ability to write yourself and think yourself?

Sand, the recruiter team leader and another recruiter.

Advices not sent Answers generated by AI without editing.

They lack the individual approach that employer looks for.

This can lead to your application being rejected immediately.

This is said by employability and career specialist Munal Abdali.

It is funny to see such advices from recruiters.

Then you see this demo and you read the statistics where 67% of recruiters already use AI.

Big companies have 78% of recruiters using AI which is a double since 2022.

Companies use AI to be fast but candidates are punished for it.

But back to the point how the recruiter sees your profile so about the Recruiter Lite to get Recruiter Lite all you need to do is to enter your bank card number.

You do not need to prove that you are hiring for some firm.

Now the LinkedIn also gives a free trial one month for recruiter Lite so you can look at your profile through the recruiter's eyes for free.

Below are the examples of interface from different stages of the vacancy creation when creating a vacancy and when filling a job description, a recruiter has an option to reformat with AI.

It was we need a person who knows Java, Docker, CI, CD and Kubernetes.

Something that the team lead would probably tell to recruiter.

Notice how AI automatically requires a university degree from candidate.

It also for some reason starts to search for cloud knowledge.

It also by default promises equal conditions and inclusive culture.

Recruiter Lite also automatically generated following 10 filters for technologies.

So this is how big empty job descriptions appear.

Because of this AI assistant, a company might lose a good candidate.

The candidate simply would look at the vacancy and think I do not know the cloud and HTML and I do not have a degree and I guess I'm not fit and never ever apply for this job.

This is what the tool for searching for the best candidates looks like.

On the left filters are available by the years, universities, companies and keywords.