How to Position Yourself on LinkedIn for Executive Opportunities | Executive Pivots™

Learn how senior leaders can leverage LinkedIn to strengthen their executive positioning, increase visibility, build meaningful connections, and create more opportunities in the market. 🚀 Take the Executive Readiness Scorecard™: 👉 https://executivepivots.com/scorecard ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you’re an executive in transition, simply having a LinkedIn profile is not enough. Your profile needs to clearly communicate what you do, where you create value, and why recruiters, hiring managers, and other executives should pay attention. In this session, Brandy Schade walks through real executive LinkedIn profiles and demonstrates practical ways to improve positioning, increase visibility, connect with relevant recruiters, train your LinkedIn feed to surface better opportunities, and strategically expand your network. You’ll also see live examples of how to search for roles through LinkedIn posts, identify the people connected to those opportunities, leverage mutual connections, work with executive recruiters, and position yourself for full-time, consulting, or fractional opportunities. ✅ Make your executive LinkedIn profile easier to scan and understand ✅ Position your experience for both people and LinkedIn Recruiter searches ✅ Connect with recruiters relevant to your role and industry ✅ Train LinkedIn to surface more relevant executive opportunities ✅ Find opportunities through Posts instead of relying only on Jobs ✅ Use mutual connections to expand your executive network ✅ Strengthen referrals and warm introductions ✅ Position consulting and fractional experience effectively ✅ Research executive recruiters and target companies more strategically ✅ Increase your visibility so the right people can find you 🌐 Learn more: https://executivepivots.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ Timecodes 00:00 – How to position an executive LinkedIn profile clearly 02:00 – The two audiences your LinkedIn profile needs to serve 05:08 – How keywords help executive recruiters find you 06:03 – How to connect with relevant executive recruiters 10:36 – How to train LinkedIn to show you better opportunities 13:46 – Why searching Posts can uncover opportunities before Jobs 16:18 – What to do after finding a role posted on LinkedIn 20:19 – How recommendations and @mentions increase visibility 23:55 – How to find executives by location, industry, and connection 26:38 – How to use mutual connections for warm introductions 29:40 – How to expand your network when you’ve exhausted your current one 34:17 – Should you apply for the role or focus on connecting first? 36:54 – How to find executive groups and fractional opportunities 40:42 – How to know whether your LinkedIn profile is gaining traction 42:32 – Should executives use the Open to Work banner? 45:50 – How to position yourself for fractional executive work 48:23 – How to show LLC and consulting experience after landing a role 49:58 – How executive recruiters and search firms specialize 51:18 – How to research recruiters and recruiting firms on LinkedIn 53:58 – How to connect inside target companies 54:37 – Why opportunities exist even when recruiters haven’t found you yet ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Connect with Executive Pivots™ Website: https://executivepivots.com LinkedIn:   / executive-pivots   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ExecutivePivots #LinkedInStrategy #ExecutiveLinkedIn #ExecutiveJobSearch #ExecutivesInTransition #ExecutivePositioning #ExecutiveVisibility #ExecutiveRecruiters #CareerPivot #ExecutiveCareer