From applying into the void to conversations
“I am applying steadily and hearing nothing back.” Applications through the job board are the lowest-yield channel on LinkedIn and where most search time goes. This workflow reallocates it, and fixes the profile first because the profile is the landing page for everything else.
Each step's output is the next step's input
Read the In and Out lines down the page. Where they do not line up, the workflow has a gap — that is the test, and it is why these are written this way rather than as a diagram.
Write the case once30 min, once
- In
- Your CV and the honest constraints
- Out
- JOB-SEARCH.md — one story every later draft inherits
Fix the landing page20 min
- In
- Your current profile text and one goal
- Out
- A ranked change list with the top three sections rewritten
Build the target list20 min
- In
- What you want next and what you have done
- Out
- Twenty companies in three tiers, the role to contact at each, and a weekly routine
Write to a human3 min each
- In
- One role and one named person
- Out
- Three messages: hiring manager, recruiter, referrer
What you end up holding
Each step leaves something behind. These are the things worth keeping between runs.
JOB-SEARCH.md — one story every later draft inherits
A ranked change list with the top three sections rewritten
Twenty companies in three tiers, the role to contact at each, and a weekly routine
Three messages: hiring manager, recruiter, referrer
The reference behind this workflow
Five InMail credits a month is the feature that matters here. The rest of the tier mostly is not.
Run it with the context already loaded
Every step goes faster inside a Project that already knows your ICP, your product and the platform limits. That is what the packs are.