LinkedIn Job Alerts Not Working, Resume Won’t Upload, and Who Can See Your Resume

Does this match what you see?

• LinkedIn shows an error when you try to create a job alert.
• You stopped getting job alert emails.
• Your resume won’t attach to an Easy Apply application.
• You applied without a resume and want to add one.
• You’re not sure which resume you sent with an application.
• You want to stop recruiters seeing your resume data.

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Based on ten LinkedIn Help articles supplied by the site owner.

Why this happens: the possible causes

The usual causes.

• Alert limit reachedCheck this first

  LinkedIn says a member can have at most 20 job alerts at once.

• File or browser problemCheck this first

  LinkedIn says the file must be Word or PDF, recommends under 2MB, and suggests trying a different browser.

How to fix it, step by step

Work through these in order. They start with the quickest, safest checks and only move to steps that sign you out or remove data later.

Job collections: not showing, or weekly emails to stop

Job collections are LinkedIn’s themed lists of jobs (for example by industry, domain, company benefits, or lists like LinkedIn Top Companies), found in your feed on the Jobs tab.

• Can’t see them? LinkedIn says only members with enough relevant jobs in collections can use the feature. It decides this from your current job title, your Open to Work preferences and your recent job-title searches. If nothing matches, collections stay hidden until hirers add relevant jobs.
• Weekly collection emails: you opt in per collection, and LinkedIn says alerts arrive every Thursday. To stop them, use the job alerts management page (external site, opens in a new tab).
• Feedback or questions: LinkedIn says to chat or open a ticket (external site, opens in a new tab) and mention “Job collections”.

Our tip: to see more collections, keep your current job title up to date and set your Open to Work preferences.

Applied without a resume

LinkedIn says you can’t reopen an application to attach a resume, or reapply to the same job post. If the job poster gave contact details in the posting, you can send your resume to them by InMail.

See which resume you sent

For jobs you applied to with Easy Apply:

1. Go to the Jobs homepage and click Job tracker.
2. Click the Applied tab, then the job.
3. Click Submitted resume.

Your saved resumes: reuse, download or delete

LinkedIn keeps your four most recent resumes, so you can pick one under Resume when you use Easy Apply. You can download only resumes uploaded during a LinkedIn job application, not on a company’s website.

Download a resume

• Desktop: Jobs > Preferences (left pane) > Resumes and application data (under My qualifications) > More next to the resume > Download.
• App: tap Jobs > Preferences (top of the page) > Resumes and application data > More next to the resume > Download.

Delete a resume

Go to Job Application Settings (external site, opens in a new tab) or Resumes and application data (external site, opens in a new tab), click the … next to the resume, and select Delete. LinkedIn says applications you already sent aren’t affected.

Who can see your resume, and how LinkedIn uses it

• Jobs you apply to: LinkedIn says a resume you upload while applying is shared with that hirer.
• Recruiters: after you apply, LinkedIn asks whether to share your resume data with all recruiters, and the Share resume data with recruiters setting is turned on. Resume sharing needs at least one saved resume. Recruiters can then find your profile in searches that match your saved resumes from the past 2 years, but LinkedIn says they don’t see your full resume unless you give it to them, for example by applying.
• Your employer: LinkedIn says it tries to hide resume sharing from recruiters at your current company and related companies (it uses the job you’ve marked I am currently working here), but can’t guarantee complete privacy.
• On your profile or in a post: visible to anyone who views it, and possibly off LinkedIn.
• Personalization and AI: LinkedIn says it uses saved resumes to recommend jobs and content, and in AI features like job matching, and says saved resume data may be used to improve its AI models, including training content-generating AI, depending on your settings (see the opt-out below).
• Share resume data with hirers: LinkedIn’s visibility page says that unless you turn this setting off (on the Job Application Settings (external site, opens in a new tab) page), your shared resume data feeds features that show hirers how you match their jobs, and certain resume data is included on your profile in LinkedIn’s hiring products.

Turn off resume sharing

1. Go to Jobs > Preferences.
2. Click Resumes and application data.
3. Turn off Share resume data with recruiters. You can also turn it off from the prompt after you apply, or on the Job Application Settings (external site, opens in a new tab) page.

LinkedIn says resume sharing is available only in English.

How to know it worked

• Your job alerts arrive and your resume attaches to applications.

Still not working? Your next steps

1. Easy Apply stopped working? See LinkedIn Easy Apply limits. Not getting any LinkedIn emails? See LinkedIn emails not arriving.

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