LinkedIn presence for SA professionals
A free, step-by-step path that turns a bare or out-of-date LinkedIn into one recruiters can actually find, then helps you make the first move. Built for South Africa. No guru talk.
Before
After
Same you. A profile recruiters can actually find.
Free · about 2 to 3 hours · your privacy stays in your control.
Before
After
Same you. A profile recruiters can actually find.
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Employment lift from a ~4-hour LinkedIn fix (Harambee / J-PAL SA study)
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Jump in LinkedIn sign-ups after that training
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What moved the needle. Not months.
Recruiters
search first
Most checks happen on LinkedIn before the call back
Based on a randomised study of ~1,600 South African job seekers (Harambee, evaluated by J-PAL).
You are good at what you do. But if it is not on your LinkedIn, it does not count when someone decides who to call.
Recruiters are searching right now for someone exactly like you. The wrong keywords mean you simply do not show up.
Your profile still reads like your old role, or it is empty. It says the wrong thing about who you are now.
How it works
About 2 to 3 hours total · Self-paced · Start seeing results after milestone 1
Take an honest look at where your profile stands, get your three fastest fixes, and lock a target role and 1 to 3 SA companies.
Rewrite your headline, About and experience so recruiters can find you and it still sounds like you. Leave with a paste-ready profile pack.
Build a list of real people at the companies you want and draft personalised connection notes that never read like spam.
Set up recruiter findability with your privacy in your control, then send one real message about a specific opportunity.
This path gets you found and makes the first move. When you are ready to apply, interview and negotiate, Land Your Next Job picks up from there.
What you walk away with
A paste-ready profile pack: keyword headline, About hook, sharpened experience bullets, top-3 skills
A named target-company people list with a "why this person" hook for each
Personalised connection notes, ready to copy and send
Your findability and Open-to-Work settings dialled to your situation, your privacy respected
One real outreach message sent, plus a clear handoff to applications
What is probably holding you back
You can be findable to recruiters without telling your network a thing. The path sets recruiters-only mode and mutes profile-update alerts, so nobody at your current job is tipped off. Discretion is built in, not bolted on.
You do not start from a blank box. Every tool drafts first from your real CV or experience, then you edit. A degree, a field and one real strength is a credible start.
This is self-representation, like a CV, not showing off. Nobody calls a CV arrogant. You are not performing, you are making sure the right people can find you.
Built by the Plai Career Team for the South African market. Evidence-led, no hype, no guru talk.
The whole path is built around what actually moved the needle in a randomised SA study: a focused, few-hour LinkedIn fix that made job seekers findable. We turned that finding into the steps, in plain Rand-world language.
Yes, completely free right now. Early phase, and everyone who goes through it now keeps what they build.
No, if you do not want them to. You set recruiters-only visibility and mute update alerts. Findable to recruiters, invisible to your feed.
Yes. There is a from-zero path that builds a credible profile from your CV, field and one strength.
No. It is built for people doing real work that their profile does not show. Mid-career often gets the most out of it.
It gets you found and helps you make the first move. Applications, interviews and offers are the next path, Land Your Next Job.
About 2 to 3 hours, at your own pace. Your progress is saved.
Free, step by step, in your own words. About 2 to 3 hours.
Free while we’re building it · Keep everything you create