Title: How to hide your profile on LinkedIn - Quora
Headings: How can you hide your profile on LinkedIn?
How can you hide your profile on LinkedIn?
Jonathan Luridsen
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Content: While it's true that you can't actually make any Profile 'private' on LinkedIn, you do have control over what people can see both on LinkedIn and in search results on the Public version. Bear in mind that the changes you make to your Public version will not occur quickly because Google and other search engines take time to update (usually 48hrs+) their cached version. The issue here seems
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A lot of people don't realize that there are actually 2 versions of your LinkedIn Profile: the one shown on LinkedIn and a version of it shown on Google (or other search engine results) i.e the Public version. While it's true that you can't actually make any Profile 'private' on LinkedIn, you do have control over what people can see both on LinkedIn and in search results on the Public version. Bear in mind that the changes you make to your Public version will not occur quickly because Google and other search engines take time to update (usually 48hrs+) their cached version. The issue here seems to be unwelcome communication while you are recovering. The solution I propose addresses that scenario without having to 'disable' your Profile (not currently an option provided by LinkedIn) or delete it (too drastic). (1) Change your Connections to Private - this means that you and only you can see your Connections. This will substantially reduce Recruiter interest/activity.