I went down a rabbit hole this week. I scraped 50 LinkedIn profiles of developers who got recruited (not applied — actively recruited) in the last 90 days. Then I compared them to 50 random developer profiles in the same skill range. The differences were not what I expected. Profiles that got recruited had three things in common 1. The headline was a sentence, not a list of skills. Random profile headline: Senior Software Engineer | React | Node.js | AWS | Docker | Kubernetes | TypeScript Recruited profile headline: Helping fintechs ship payment systems that don't break at 3am | Senior Backend Engineer The recruited ones tell you what problem they solve. Recruiters search for problems, not stack lists. 2. The "About" section started with a result. Random: "Experienced software engineer with X years building scalable applications across multiple domains." Recruited: "I rebuilt the payments pipeline at [Company] from a 14-second checkout to 800ms.…