How to boost your LinkedIn profile ranking

Copying and pasting your resume into LinkedIn isn’t enough to get noticed. Hiring managers – tasked with filling an abundance of IT jobs with a lack of candidates – rely on LinkedIn to find the best talent. With a booming IT job market and rising salaries, optimizing your profile for search is key to nabbing a new opportunity. “This is a candidate-driven market. There’s a talent war in IT,” says Matthew Ripaldi, senior regional vice president at IT r