Hey happy Sunday!
I said we’d chat all things “how to LinkedIn” this week, so here we go.
A couple of you took me up on my LinkedIn profile refresh after last week’s newsy which was ace, and one person asked specifically how to build a LinkedIn profile that works for health tech jobs, which is pretty much exactly what I was going to write about anyway.
When I open someone’s profile to suss them out I go from the top of the page down, and there are three things I’m checking before I read a single word of their experience.
Have you got a profile picture? I’ve got a proper headshot now but I didn’t for years and it never stopped me. It just needs to be you, recognisable, and not the grey avatar silhouette, cos a profile with no photo reads as abandoned.
Have you got a cover image? That’s the banner sitting behind your photo. Most clinicians have never touched it so it’s still the default blue, and it’s the easiest thing on this whole list to fix. And can help show more about you.
Does your headline tell me what you do? This is the line under your name and it’s the one that matters most, cos it follows you everywhere, every comment you leave, every search result you turn up in, every connect request you send. Most of us have it set to our job title or nothing at all.
Mine currently says “Founder - Sacked Mate 🐻 | Marketing generalist 🌀 | Sensible adventurer 🛶 🥾 🏕️”, which tells you what I’m building and what I’m good at, plus the fact I’d rather be outside. Go have a look, it’s the fastest way to see what I mean.
Three other profiles worth a look to draw inspo from, and they’re each doing something different with it:
Dr Amandeep Hansra has “GP | Digital Health | Entrepreneur | Company Director”. She’s kept the clinical credential and put where she’s headed right next to it, which is the closest of the three to where most of you are sitting.
Milly Tamati finishes hers with “Built a 150K-person movement from a Scottish island with 191 people”, which is the same move as the CV line with the data in it, just squeezed into a headline.
Dickie Currer-Ganguli opens with “Building and Connecting Startup ecosystems across Asia-Pacific” instead of a job title, so you know what he actually does before you know what his job title is.
Next up is your posts/comments which tells me what you care about and more of your personality. As a physio I don’t think I ever posted so don’t sweat that too much just yet.
And finally it’s your experience section, and this is where the last few weeks of the newsy actually pay off. Remember that CV line I asked you to write a second version of? The one that had the data in it? That version goes on your LinkedIn too, the 63% to 88% one rather than the working party one.
Most people write their LinkedIn experience like a job description, which is the thing your employer wrote about the role before you ever did it. What you want in there is what changed cos you were the one doing it.
So this week, don’t rewrite anything yet. Just go and look. Open your own profile on a laptop if you can, and look at the top third of it the way a stranger would, photo and banner and headline, and see whether any of it tells them who you are and what you’re moving towards.
Then have a look at mine and connect if we’re not already.
I’ve got a couple of last spaces for helping someone get their profile set up (no charge), so if you want a hand with yours, send the connect request with a note and I’ll sort you out.
Next week I’ve got a pivot story for you, I recorded it a couple of weeks back and it’s a good one.
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PAID ROLES
Roles that you can go all in on:
Melbourne VIC | Full time | Not stated
Bunnings is after someone to lead wellbeing, mental health and psychosocial safety across the whole business, and the ad asks for “tertiary qualifications in an allied health, health sciences, psychology, occupational health or related discipline”. That is about as direct an invitation into a corporate role as you will see. The work is designing frameworks, training and capability programs for teams spread across Australia and New Zealand.
Hobart TAS | Fixed term to Sept 2028 | $144,169 - $153,844 + 12% super
Thriving Kids is the reform changing how children with developmental needs get support outside the NDIS, and Tasmania needs someone to lead its rollout across government, community and service sectors. The criteria ask for experience in health, disability, early childhood or human services rather than a project management certificate. If you have worked in paediatrics you already understand the system this is trying to fix.
Marrickville, Sydney NSW | Full time | Not stated
Growing junior cricket for kids aged 5 to 12 by building relationships with schools and local clubs, then coordinating the casual staff who deliver the programs. The only hard requirements are a drivers licence and a Working with Children Check, and the ad says outright that cricket knowledge is unnecessary. Applications close Wednesday 9 September 2026.
NO RESIGNATION NEEDED
Roles that let you dip your toe in:
Sydney NSW, remote friendly | Volunteer, unpaid | 4 to 6 hours a month
Keeping project plans current, turning strategy into actual tasks, tracking progress and building a planning rhythm for a youth-led environmental charity. It asks for experience in “operations, project coordination, administration, volunteer management, business support or a related field”, which is the coordination work sitting underneath a clinical caseload. Four to six hours a month is the lightest commitment on this list.
Online or remote | Volunteer, unpaid | 3 to 5 hours a week
Moderating discussions, responding across social platforms and finding the online spaces worth showing up in for an environmental charity working on cigarette butt litter. This is community management you can point to on a CV, in a domain with no clinical overlap at all. It wants strong written communication and steady judgement in heated conversations, plus a declaration of any past tobacco industry involvement.
Melbourne VIC, remote friendly | Volunteer, unpaid | 5+ hours a week
Finding sponsors, writing proposals and managing the relationships that fund the organisation’s events and programs. Experience with sponsorships, fundraising or CRM tools is listed as “a plus (but not required)”, so this is a genuine entry point into business development. It reads on a CV as partnerships work rather than anything clinical.
WORTH YOUR TIME
Events worth checking out:
Thursday Sep 17th | 5.30pm - 8pm | Bupa Head Office, 33 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC
Lightning talks and a panel with women shaping healthcare design in Australia, including Claire Hines, an intensive care physiotherapist now doing a PhD in digital health at RMIT. The other speakers sit across Monash Design Health Collab, Healthdirect and Bupa, so you get four different routes out of the clinic in one evening. Free, with pizza and drinks.
Tuesday Sep 8th | 6pm - 8pm | La Trobe University City Campus, Melbourne VIC
Researchers and practitioners from La Trobe and Harrison AI on how AI is actually being used in pathology, radiology and personalised medicine, including what breaks when you deploy it in a hospital. The listed audience includes healthcare professionals, not just engineers. Free.
Wednesday Sep 16th | 6pm - 8pm | El Loco at Slip Inn, 111 Sussex St, Sydney NSW
A sit-down meal with people who build communities for a living, run membership programs or manage Slack groups. Twenty places, first in first served, and you order and pay for your own food. Free to register, or name your own price as a donation.
Wednesday Sep 16th | 6pm - 8pm | Grace Darling Hotel, 114 Smith St, Collingwood VIC
Same night, same format, different city. Twenty places, order and pay your own way. Free to register, or name your own price as a donation.
See you next week
Teala x
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