Not Starting Over: The First Four Moves
Rob Humphrey
Fifteen years inside LinkedIn
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Your materials are probably fine. You're losing somewhere else.
Most advice for job seekers over fifty is about the top of the funnel. Apply to more things. Better keywords. Tighten the résumé.
I did that. 217 applications in three months, 12 interviews, two second-round interviews, zero offers. The funnel was fine. One in eighteen is a good rate for cold applications, which means my materials were working and the loss was happening somewhere else.
This is two hours on the first four moves — the ones that decide whether you're findable at all, and what a recruiter sees in the three seconds before they read anything. You'll run them on your own profile during the session, not take notes to act on later. You leave with the work done.
The system isn't fair. But it is legible, and these four moves are the part you can read.
What you’ll learn
The funnel isn't your problem. Learn what the search reads, what a recruiter registers in three seconds, and leave findable.
Separate the fields the search actually reads from the ones nobody looks at until you've already surfaced.
Audit your own profile against that split and see where your effort has been going to waste.
Walk the three-step sequence from query to shortlist, from someone who watched it from the inside for fifteen years.
See where a thirty-year career gets filtered for reasons that have nothing to do with capability.
Rewrite your title, headline, and first two lines of About in the session — the three fields that move findability this week.
Build a headline out of nouns somebody would actually type, instead of adjectives no filter reads.
See the four things that register in a scan before anyone reads a word you wrote.
Name the part of your history you can't edit, and settle how you address it before someone else raises it first.
Workshop agenda
The arithmetic (10 min)
Where the losses actually happen in a search after fifty, and why more applications don't fix it. My numbers, and what they ruled out.
Move 01: The fields that put you in the list (20 min)
Which fields the search reads, which ones only matter once you've surfaced, and where your effort has been going to waste.
Move 02: How recruiters search, in three steps (20 min)
The sequence from query to shortlist, seen from the inside. Where a thirty-year career gets filtered for reasons unrelated to capability.
Move 03: Fix three fields, not thirty (45 min, hands on profile)
You rewrite your title, headline, and first two lines of About in the session. Nouns somebody would type, not adjectives. Plus the four things that register in a scan before anyone reads a word.
Move 04: The flag on your record, and open Q&A (25 min)
How to handle the part of your history you can't edit, then whatever the room brings.
Learn directly from Rob
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Rob Humphrey
Enterprise sales leader. Fifteen years inside LinkedIn, thirty in the industry.
Who this workshop is for
Experienced professionals over fifty who are in a search now, or expect to be.
Anyone who has been told to apply to more things and can tell that isn't the problem.
People whose materials are good and who are still not getting called.
What's included
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Sixty minutes of open office hours after the session, for whatever didn't get answered in the room.
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