How the LinkedIn check works

Each check passes or fails for a recruiter searching for your current job title, now and with the suggested changes made.

The search check

Pass all five and you'd turn up in a recruiter's basic search for your job title, though not always first.

Your job title: Whether your current title is one recruiters search for. When your CV words the same job the standard way, you get that wording to use.
Your main skills: The skills your CV backs up, ranked for your job; without a CV, the skills your profile names. At least three of the top five need to be in your top skills, headline, About or a role.
Your current role: Whether it has a description.
Your headline: Whether it says what you do. A model judges how close it is to your job title.
Your recent roles: Whether at least two of your three most recent roles are described.

You copy each one onto LinkedIn yourself.

From your CV: Each suggestion is written from your CV and your profile, and shows the lines it came from.
Only your facts: A number, an employer or a product name that isn't in your CV or profile gets the suggestion written again, and dropped if it happens twice.
Questions for blank roles: When your CV says nothing about a role, you get two questions to answer instead of a description.
Your titles stay yours: A job title only changes to match how your CV words the same job.

The check lays your profile out at LinkedIn's own widths and folds it where LinkedIn does: four lines of your About and two of each role.

Popular LinkedIn scores with no published evidence behind them.

Profile completeness percentageNo published LinkedIn ranking uses it. It traces back to LinkedIn's own nudges to fill in your profile.
Endorsement countsAbsent from every published ranking feature list, and easy to inflate.
Connection countLinkedIn publishes no role for it in search ranking.
How often you postThe feed and recruiter search are separate systems. Posting does not rank you in search.
Social Selling IndexA metric LinkedIn built for salespeople on Sales Navigator.
Keyword densityLinkedIn matches standard job titles, skills and companies. Repeating a word adds nothing.
Skill assessment badgesLinkedIn retired them and removed the badges from profiles.
A number in every bulletCarried over from CV advice with no LinkedIn evidence, and the same rhythm on every line reads as generic.