Where linkedin opportunities actually get posted, plus the places people find them without a posting at all. All 66 entries below are free to use and checked for whether they are still live.
LinkedIn article from Michelle Coulson on identifying remote positions, asking the right questions in interviews, and building a career while working from anywhere.
Why I recommend it: Remote work is still a differentiator, but not every "remote-friendly" job is what it seems. Coulson gives practical signals to look for before you accept.
Disability Rights Lawyer, Author. The first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School; author of 'Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law' and a leading voice on accessible technology and inclusive design.
In plain terms: This is the LinkedIn profile of disability rights lawyer and author Haben Girma. Follow her page to learn about accessibility strategies, inclusive technology, and disability advocacy.
Why I recommend it: Her framing of accessibility as innovation, not charity, is worth borrowing.
Toolkit for building and pressure-testing a one-page resume: run it through a free AI scanner, format with a clean template, and match the six-section template map. Includes fonts, margins, and a quality checklist.
In plain terms: This guide provides a six-section layout and formatting checklist for building a one-page resume. You can use it to organize your experience, set proper margins and fonts, and test your draft with an AI scanner.
Why I recommend it: Rescan after every revision, and keep a version history so you can tailor per application.
LinkedIn's directory of live and upcoming professional events - webinars, audio rooms, panels, and hiring sessions you can register for and attend from anywhere.
Details: Free events are the cheapest warm introduction there is. Register, show up with one good question, and connect with the speaker the same day while you are fresh in their feed.
Career site by Austin Belcak teaching job-search strategies built around networking and direct outreach rather than online applications. Free articles, templates, and tools; paid courses and coaching also offered.
Open-source AI agent that scans job boards daily, cross-references your LinkedIn network for warm intros, and emails you a curated list of matches. Self-hosted — you run it with your own keys.
In plain terms: This open-source tool scans job boards daily to find openings that fit your criteria. You can connect your LinkedIn network to spot contacts at hiring companies and receive daily email updates with active job matches.
From the site: AI agent that scans job boards daily, cross-references your LinkedIn for warm intros, and emails you curated matches - evanzsolomon/job-search-agent
Why I recommend it: For the technically comfortable. Read the code before you point it at your accounts, and never let an agent send applications unreviewed.
A free scan that compares your LinkedIn profile against a target job title and returns a score plus specific fixes for your headline, about section, skills, and keywords - the same matching logic Jobscan uses for resumes, applied to your profile.
Why I recommend it: Run it once, fix the three biggest gaps it names, and stop there. The score is a diagnostic, not a target to chase.
Transform any topic into peak LinkedIn thought leadership guaranteed to make your followers shudder.
Why I recommend it: I include CringeBot 3000 as a gentle warning: generative AI can make your LinkedIn presence sound impressive and hollow at the same time. Use it to see what over-polished "thought leadership" looks like, then write something that actually sounds like you.
A free library of masterclasses, worksheets, and templates from career strategist Madeline Mann: interview and resume masterclasses, a job search assessment quiz, a "Tell me about yourself" worksheet, follow-up email templates, and interview question lists.
In plain terms: This page collects Madeline Mann's free career materials in one place, including video masterclasses on interviewing and resumes plus downloadable worksheets and email templates. You can use it to prepare answers, tighten your resume, and follow up with hiring managers without paying for anything.
From the site: Free masterclasses, worksheets, templates, and a job search assessment from LinkedIn Top Voice and career strategist Madeline Mann (Self Made Millennial).
Why I recommend it: Her expired webinar replays are the one thing not worth chasing — this page is the evergreen version. Start with the "Tell me about yourself" worksheet and the follow-up email templates; those two fix the most interviews the fastest. The résumé and interview masterclasses are worth blocking an hour for before your next round of applications.
Instantly grades your resume and LinkedIn profile out of 100, flagging weak language, missing metrics, and ATS formatting problems.
In plain terms: This tool gives you instant feedback and a score on your resume or LinkedIn profile. You can upload your documents to fix weak bullet points, match job keywords, and ensure your formatting works with hiring software.
From the site: Our online resume and LinkedIn grader instantly scores your resume and profile and gives detailed feedback on how to get more interviews.
Why I recommend it: Free scan is enough to catch the obvious wording and metrics gaps.
Short, extremely practical videos on resumes, LinkedIn, AI tools, and workplace communication.
In plain terms: This YouTube channel offers short, practical videos focused on career skills and job searching. You can watch tutorials on writing resumes, optimizing your LinkedIn profile, using AI tools, and communicating at work.
Why I recommend it: Watch the resume bullet formula video before your next application. It takes six minutes.
Founder, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). AI researcher and prominent voice on AI ethics, bias, and the risks of concentrated corporate control over AI development.
In plain terms: This LinkedIn profile belongs to Dr. Timnit Gebru, an artificial intelligence researcher and founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute. You can follow her page to read updates and commentary on technology ethics, bias, and research.
Why I recommend it: Pairs well with the DAIR entry in the library — independent research, not corporate PR.
Organizational Psychologist, Wharton Professor. One of LinkedIn's most-followed voices (5M+), sharing research-backed insights on work, motivation, and organizational psychology.
In plain terms: This LinkedIn profile features posts, articles, and courses from an organizational psychologist and business professor. You can explore his updates to learn practical insights on workplace motivation, collaboration, and career resilience.
Why I recommend it: Good antidote to hustle-culture advice — he shows the research behind what actually helps at work.
Strategic Business & Technology Advisor, Author. High-level, accessible summaries of emerging enterprise technology and industry trends for business leaders.
Why I recommend it: Good plain-language briefings if you need to talk tech trends in interviews.
DEIA Consultant, Speaker, LinkedIn Top Voice. Speaker and consultant on disability inclusion in the workplace; hard of hearing with a vision disability, named a LinkedIn Top Voice in Disability Advocacy.
In plain terms: This LinkedIn profile features posts from a workplace disability inclusion consultant and public speaker. You can follow her page to learn practical advice on disability advocacy, accessibility, and leading employee resource groups.
Why I recommend it: Practical workplace advice on disclosure and accommodations.
Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot. Shares insights on startups, software development, and AI, with a focus on community-driven business growth.
In plain terms: This is the LinkedIn profile of HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah. You can read his articles and updates to get advice on starting a business, building software, and using artificial intelligence tools.
Why I recommend it: Practical founder thinking on growth without a big budget.
Author, Disability Rights Activist. Author of 'Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally,' writing and speaking on disability inclusion.
Why I recommend it: Great starting point if you want to be a better ally without guessing.
Associate Professor, Wharton School. Leading voice on the practical, everyday application of generative AI tools at work, author of 'Co-Intelligence.'
In plain terms: This LinkedIn profile shares research and practical insights on how artificial intelligence is changing everyday work. Follow his regular updates to track new AI tools and learn realistic ways to use them in your career.
Why I recommend it: The best source for how to actually use AI in your day-to-day work, with real prompts and tests.
Chairman, VaynerX; CEO, VaynerMedia. One of the most followed entrepreneurship and marketing voices on LinkedIn, known for direct, practical business advice.
In plain terms: This LinkedIn profile features articles and posts from entrepreneur and business executive Gary Vaynerchuk. You can read his updates for practical advice on modern marketing, small business growth, and career motivation.
Why I recommend it: Take the energy, keep the marketing fundamentals — especially on content and patience.
Executive recruiter writing about how search firms really screen candidates, plus LinkedIn and job-search tactics.
In plain terms: An executive recruiter shares what happens behind the curtain of a search process and how to run a tighter job search. Aimed at experienced and senior professionals.
From the site: Executive recruiter by day and LinkedIn expert by night, giving executives a peek behind the executive search curtain and helping them run an efficient job search.
Why I recommend it: Follow someone who sits on the hiring side. His posts explain what recruiters skip past in seconds, which is hard to learn any other way.
A step-by-step checklist for a headline, about section, and skills that get found.
In plain terms: This guide offers a step-by-step checklist for improving your LinkedIn profile. Use it to update your headline, about section, and skills so recruiters can easily find you.
From the site: The Talent Blog is your source for tips, strategies, and inspiration to help you hire and develop talent
Why I recommend it: Recruiters search by keywords. Put the job title you want in your headline.
A shared Notion workspace collecting 120 reusable LinkedIn post structures alongside AI prompts for drafting each one.
Why I recommend it: Frameworks fix the blank-page problem. Use them for structure, then replace every generic line with something only you could have written.
A practical walkthrough from career ghostwriter area|Talent on searching LinkedIn effectively — Boolean and filter tactics, how semantic search and AI recruiting agents read your profile, and what to fix so recruiters can find you.
Why I recommend it: Do the profile fixes before you do the searching. Being findable pays off longer than any single search you run today.
A free guide to using AND, OR, NOT and quotation marks on job boards to cut thousands of irrelevant listings down to the roles that actually match you, with copyable example strings.
Why I recommend it: Copy two or three of these strings into your saved searches today. It is the cheapest hour of job-search improvement available.
A newsletter analyzing what actually performs on LinkedIn and social platforms, based on running experiments and reporting the data rather than repeating best-practice folklore.
Why I recommend it: Most LinkedIn advice is guesswork dressed up as expertise. This one tests things and shows the numbers, which is why I read it.
Find Jobs Not Posted on LinkedIn: Boolean Search Guide
A quick method for uncovering hidden roles by searching specific ATS domains in Google. Combine site: operators with title, location, or skill keywords.
Why I recommend it: Start with one title and one ATS domain, then expand. Save the searches that return the best matches and rerun them weekly.
A LinkedIn article on structuring long-form LinkedIn posts so they get read by people and surfaced by AI search tools — headlines, formatting, and keyword choices.
Why I recommend it: Worth ten minutes if you post on LinkedIn at all. Being findable by AI search is quickly becoming part of being findable, period.
A recruiter-tested guide to building a LinkedIn profile that AI ranking tools and human recruiters can actually find — keyword strategy, profile completeness, networking, recommendations, and company/group connections.
In plain terms: A practical, step-by-step playbook from Manpower for making your LinkedIn profile visible to both AI ranking tools and recruiters — covering keyword choice, full profile completion, network-building to 500+ connections, gathering recommendations, following target companies, joining professional groups, and staying active with status updates and a professional photo.
From the site: How to use LinkedIn so recruiters will see you and connect with you: a guide to use throughout your career.
Why I recommend it: The headline is the single highest-leverage field on your profile — load it with the exact keywords from job postings you want. Treat your profile as a living document: rebuild it whenever you change targets, because recruiter AI ranks by keyword match to the job description, not by seniority.
