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Sign in with Google at connectingodds.com/auth, upload your resume, and approve the skills and experience we read from it — usually under five minutes.
Photo, headline, about, at least two roles with measurable results, education, ten-plus skills, and one piece of proof (project, writing, repository or certificate).
No. Connecting Odds is an independent professional network. The official LinkedIn sign-up page is linkedin.com/signup.
Your headline is the single line that appears everywhere: search results, comments, invitations, job applications. It decides whether anyone clicks through to the rest of the profile.
Write it as role, specialism, proof: 'Registered nurse · ICU · 6 years, Level 1 trauma' or 'Financial analyst · FP&A · SaaS, $120M ARR'. Avoid 'passionate professional' and similar phrases — nobody searches for them.
Three short paragraphs: what you do and for whom, two or three results with numbers, and what you are open to next. Write in the first person.
Recruiters skim. Put the specifics — tools, industries, scale, regions — in the first two lines, because that is what is visible before anyone expands the section.
'Responsible for reporting' tells a reader nothing. 'Rebuilt monthly close reporting, cutting close from 9 days to 4' tells them everything.
Two to four bullets per role is enough. Include the tools you actually used — they are searchable signal, and our job matching reads them.
On Connecting Odds, job matching reads skills and job text, not just titles. A search for 'Java' reaches Spring Boot, J2EE and backend roles; the same works in reverse for your profile, so the skills you list determine which roles find you.
List the tools, platforms and methods you would be comfortable being asked about in an interview. Fifteen honest skills beat forty aspirational ones.
One piece of evidence outperforms a page of adjectives: a project write-up, a repository, a published article, a certificate, a portfolio link.
Finally, save a search for the roles you want. Alerts on Connecting Odds match the same way the search does — keyword widening plus your headline, current title and skills — so the email contains roles you would actually apply to rather than everything posted that day.
Export from LinkedIn under Settings → Data privacy → Get a copy of your data. LinkedIn emails the archive within minutes to an hour.
Upload the archive — or just your resume — on your Connecting Odds profile. Everything read out of it is shown for review first; nothing is saved to your profile until you approve it.
Go to linkedin.com/signup, register with an email address, then add a photo, headline, current role, education and skills. Connecting Odds is a separate, independent network — we are not affiliated with LinkedIn Corporation and cannot create or recover a LinkedIn account for you.
About 30 minutes for a solid first version: photo, headline, a short about section, your last two roles with results, and ten skills. Everything else can be added over time.
Role plus specialism plus proof, in that order — for example 'Backend engineer · Java, Kafka · scaled payments to 4M/day'. Recruiters search by role and skill, so both must appear in words, not jargon.
A clear, friendly headshot measurably increases profile views and reply rates. It does not need to be professionally shot — good light and a plain background are enough.
Ten to fifteen real ones. Skills are how search matching works on Connecting Odds: our job search reads skills as well as titles, so listing 'Spring Boot' surfaces you for Java backend roles even when your title does not say Java.
Yes. Export your data from LinkedIn (Settings → Data privacy → Get a copy of your data) and upload the archive on your Connecting Odds profile. Roles, education, skills and certifications import automatically. You can also upload a resume and we read the skills and experience out of it for you to review before anything is saved.
Yes. Creating a profile, applying to jobs and networking are free for individuals. Paid plans exist for extra job-seeker tooling and for recruiters.
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