A recruiter doesn't start with your resume. They start with a search. This tool simulates what that search finds — and where you rank.
This tool simulates a cold sourcing search — a recruiter who has never heard of you, looking for someone with your background. It is not a verification check. If a recruiter already has your name and email, that is a different process entirely. This is what happens before they ever know you exist.
Recruiters build Boolean search strings from professional attributes — title, domain, geography, credential — and run them across multiple sources. The search string this tool constructs is a starting point, not a final answer. A real recruiter iterates — expanding or collapsing the string based on what comes back. Too many results? They add terms. Too few? They broaden.
What you see here is the first pass. What matters is whether you surface at all. Most tools that evaluate you don't show you how they search. This one does. That is the point.
LinkedIn is a walled garden. Its content does not fully index on the open web. A recruiter searching outside the platform — using Google, or a sourcing tool like SeekOut or Hiretual — can only find the signal that has leaked out. That means your public profile summary, your name in other people's posts, and anything that has been scraped by data aggregators.
Even within LinkedIn, what a recruiter sees depends on their subscription level and network proximity to you. A recruiter with LinkedIn Recruiter and a strong network sees more than a hiring manager on a free account with no connection to you.
External proof deposits — a company bio, a conference listing, a published article — are visible to everyone regardless of LinkedIn tier. They live on the open web. No gate. The more of those you have, the less your visibility depends on who is doing the searching.
Found across 4+ independent sources with corroborated detail.
Multiple sources confirm your professional identity. A recruiter can build a picture of you before they ever reach out. You have ambient discoverability — you exist in the system whether or not you're actively looking.
Found in 2–3 sources. Some corroboration exists but gaps remain.
You exist in the system but aren't fully corroborated. A recruiter who finds you has to do extra work to verify. One or two external placements closes the gap.
Found in 1 source only, or name confirmed without professional context.
You're online but your professional story isn't. In an AI-filtered hiring environment, thin profiles are bypassed before a human ever sees them. Most urgent tier to move out of.
No usable profile found across any of the six sources checked.
Complete invisibility is a structural disadvantage when hiring starts with a search. Building even a minimal presence in one authoritative source changes your situation immediately.
Fill in the five fields below. We'll construct the search a recruiter would run looking for someone with your background — then simulate what comes back — and tell you how discoverable your professional attributes are.
A highest-trust credential is something that required external validation to earn — a body outside of you confirmed your competency, identity, or contribution. The reason it matters is that it would appear in a database or registry that a recruiter or sourcing tool can find independently of your LinkedIn profile.
Examples:
The test: Could someone find evidence of this credential without you telling them about it? If yes — it counts.
A proof deposit is anywhere your name and professional role appear on the open web — placed by someone other than you, or on a platform a search engine can index.
Counts:
Does not count:
Uses an advanced AI model to simulate how a skilled recruiter would evaluate the discoverability of your professional attributes. Not a live search — a calibrated judgment.
Curious what this search actually returns? Click below to run it in Google and see who surfaces. The people who show up have the kind of external footprint this tool is measuring. The people who don't — don't. Optional, but instructive.
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