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Your LinkedIn Is Giving “Unemployed”: How to Get Found by Recruiters (Us Included)

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Real talk: a lot of LinkedIn profiles look like they were set up for a class assignment in 2022 and never opened again. No photo, no headline, and a summary that just says “Student.” Then people wonder why recruiters never reach out.

Here’s why it matters. At Semper Consulting in Longwood, FL, we find a lot of our candidates through LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter. So do plenty of other companies. If your profile is doing the bare minimum, the right opportunities are scrolling right past you. These seven LinkedIn profile tips take about twenty minutes, so let’s fix that.

Why Recruiters (Including Semper Consulting) Use LinkedIn

Recruiters don’t just wait for applications to roll in. They search. They type in skills, locations, and job titles, and LinkedIn shows them matching profiles. If yours doesn’t include those words, you don’t show up. So if you’re wondering how to get noticed by recruiters, it starts with showing up in those searches.

That’s also why getting a message out of nowhere isn’t automatically weird. We explained exactly how that works in So Semper Consulting Reached Out About Your Resume… Now What?

1. Use a Real Photo (Yes, You Need One)

Profiles without a photo look abandoned, or worse, fake. You don’t need a professional headshot. A clear photo of your face, good lighting, and a plain background is plenty – no sunglasses, no group shots, no cropped-out friend’s shoulder.

2. Write a Headline That Isn’t Just “Student”

Your headline is the first thing a recruiter sees in search results. “Student at UCF” tells them almost nothing. Try something that says what you’re good at and what you want:

  • “Communications grad | Customer-focused | Looking for entry-level sales and marketing roles”
  • “Former server turned people person | Interested in business development”

Specific beats vague every time.

3. Add Your Location

Recruiters filter by location constantly. If you want to work in Central Florida, make sure your profile says so. Leaving it blank or listing a city you moved away from two years ago means you won’t show up when recruiters search for entry-level jobs in Orlando and the surrounding cities.

4. Count the Experience You Think Doesn’t Count

Serving tables, retail, coaching a youth team, captaining a club, working a campus job: all of it counts. Those roles build exactly what customer-facing careers need: communication, handling pressure, and dealing with all kinds of people. Describe what you actually did and what you got better at, not just the job title. We cover this more in The Career Advice Semper Consulting Wishes More College Students Heard Before Graduating.

5. Fill Out Your Skills and “About” Section

Add real skills (communication, customer service, public speaking, teamwork), so you match more searches. Then write a short About section in your own voice: who you are, what you’re good at, and what you’re looking for next. Three or four sentences are enough.

6. Turn On “Open to Work” (the Smart Way)

LinkedIn lets you signal that you’re open to new roles. You can show it to everyone with the green photo frame, or only to recruiters. Either way, it tells recruiters that you’re worth messaging.

7. Show Up Once in a While

You don’t have to post daily, but liking, commenting, or sharing something occasionally keeps your profile active. An active profile looks like a real person who’s paying attention, because it is.

Bonus: Make Sure the Recruiter Is Real, Too

Getting found is great! Getting scammed is not. Before you reply to any recruiter, check that the message comes from a real company email that matches its website. Our recruiting outreach, for example, only comes from ad***@***************ng.com. If you want the full checklist, we broke it down in Job Offer Giving Scam Vibes? Semper Consulting’s Guide to Spotting the Fakes.

Your Profile Is Your First Impression

Before a recruiter ever talks to you, your LinkedIn has already introduced you. Give it twenty minutes this week, and you’ll be a lot easier to find. And if a career where your people skills really matter sounds like your thing, check out careers at Semper Consulting. Maybe we’ll be the ones reaching out.

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Marine Corps Veteran-Led Semper Consulting Sets Clear Standards for How Job Seekers Can Verify Its Recruiting Outreach

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Semper Consulting, a Marine Corps veteran-led sales consulting firm headquartered in Longwood, Florida, has verified its official Facebook and Instagram accounts and formalized one official recruiting address so job seekers can confirm that outreach carrying the company’s name is genuine. All Semper Consulting recruiting messages come from a single address, ad***@***************ng.com, and are sent by the company’s recruiter, Mackenzie Topinka.

The move comes as job scams continue to climb nationwide. According to the Federal Trade Commission, reports about job scams tripled from 2020 to 2024, and reported losses jumped from $90 million to $501 million over the same period. The FTC has specifically warned that transitioning service members are targeted through the same job sites, social media platforms, and direct messages every job seeker relies on, a population Semper Consulting has a personal reason to look out for.

That personal reason traces back to the company’s own roots. President Tyler Lozier, a United States Marine Corps veteran, founded Semper Consulting, and its name comes from the Marine Corps motto, Semper Fidelis, meaning “always faithful.”

So candidates can check any message that uses its name, Semper Consulting has published five standards:

• One recruiting address. Recruiting outreach comes only from ad***@***************ng.com, which matches the company’s website domain, semper-consulting.com.
• Verified social accounts. Semper Consulting’s official Facebook and Instagram accounts now display Meta’s verified badge.
• Known sourcing channels. Semper Consulting sources candidates through LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter.
• No cost, no sensitive requests up front. The company never asks candidates for money and never requests bank details, a Social Security number, or a copy of an ID before a candidate has spoken with an actual person. Nothing costs a candidate anything at any stage.
• A real office. Semper Consulting’s office is located at 1425 W State Rd 434, Suite 113, Longwood, FL 32750, and can be reached at (321) 219-7366.

Continue reading the full press release on EIN Presswire.

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Semper Consulting’s Roots in Longwood, Florida: Home Base From Day One

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Every company has an origin story, but not every company keeps that story front and center. A founding date can shrink into a throwaway line on an About page, and a headquarters can turn into just an address on a contact form. For us, the where and when have stayed part of the story on purpose, because Central Florida — the Longwood and Orlando area — has been our home base since the very beginning. If you’re researching us before an interview or a partnership, that continuity is worth knowing.

The Founding Facts, Plainly Stated

We were founded in Central Florida — the Longwood/Orlando area — opening our doors on April 1, 2024. That’s not a rounded-off year or a vague “early 2020s” guess. It’s the specific date we started operating, and Central Florida has been home ever since. If you’ve searched “where is Semper Consulting located,” here’s the direct answer: our headquarters sits at 1425 W State Rd 434, Suite 113, Longwood, FL 32750, right on the 434 corridor in Seminole County, a short drive from downtown Orlando.

Why Central Florida Works as Home Base

Longwood wasn’t picked off a map. Central Florida gave us easy access to the Orlando metro’s fast-growing telecom and service market, along with a pool of talent that already calls the region home. Mackenzie Topinka, our recruiter, grew up nearby in Apopka. Sales Representative Leader Phyllis Lai built her career after moving to Orlando at eighteen. When people hear about our Central Florida roots, that’s what we actually mean: not just an office lease, but a team that already lived here before we gave them a reason to stay. It also means candidates coming in for an interview are walking into a building we’ve occupied since we opened, not a rotating address.

A Veteran-Led Identity, Woven In From the Start

Our founder, Tyler Lozier, is a Marine Corps veteran, and that background shaped this company from the jump. Our name itself nods to that history: “Semper” comes from “semper fidelis,” the Marine Corps motto meaning “always faithful.” That idea of loyalty, to a team, to a client, to a commitment made on day one, has stuck around as more than a name. It shows up in how we train and promote from within, and it’s a big part of why we get described as a veteran-led sales firm in Florida rather than just another sales office. Our founding story and our home base are tied together for a reason: both were built to last.

Growing Without Leaving Home

Home base doesn’t mean standing still. Earlier this year, we opened a second office in Savannah, Georgia, led by Alyra Tiemkongkarn, who grew into that leadership role right here in Longwood before taking it on the road. That’s our model going forward: develop people at home, then trust them to open the next door. Longwood stays our headquarters. Every new location traces back to it, which keeps our history readable in a straight line instead of a scattered one.

That’s the short version of our history: founded in Central Florida in 2024, still headquartered in the Longwood/Orlando area today, and built by people who consider Central Florida home rather than just a business address. If you want to see what that history looks like in practice, our careers page is a good place to start.

No, We’re Not That Semper: Meet the Real Semper Consulting in Longwood, FL

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Search “Semper” and you’ll find good company: a staffing agency in Boston, a consulting LLC in another state, and a few others who liked the word as much as we did. Somewhere in that list is Semper Consulting in Longwood, Florida, which is us. If you’ve been trying to figure out which Semper is which, this post should save you some scrolling.

Why the Name Gets Mixed Up

“Semper” comes from the Latin for “always,” and it shows up in a lot of company names for the same reason it shows up in ours: it sounds like a promise. The difference between Semper International and Semper Consulting, or between us and any other Semper, comes down to three details. We’re in Longwood, FL. We do sales consulting. And we were founded by a Marine.

If the Semper you’re reading about matches all three, you’ve found us. If not, no harm done, and we hope they’re lovely.

Who We Are

Semper Consulting is a Florida-based sales consulting company that specializes in face-to-face customer acquisition for the nation’s leading cellular, fiber, and TV providers. We opened our doors on April 1, 2024. Big brands hire us to represent them in person, and our team spends its days meeting the people who use those services, answering questions, and helping them make a good decision.

Our President, Tyler Lozier, served in the United States Marine Corps before he built this company, and you can feel it in how we operate. There’s structure here, and there’s an expectation that you show up ready. But there’s also the other half of the Marine Corps motto. Semper fidelis means “always faithful,” and that loyalty runs toward our clients, our customers, and especially the people on our team. The Marine Corps mindset is a big part of why people who start here in an entry-level role grow into leaders.

Our mission is short, and we mean it: exceeding expectations while honoring commitments. Our values are integrity, leadership, growth, results, culture, and recognition, and that last one matters more than people expect. We celebrate wins loudly around here.

Where to Find Us: Longwood and Central Florida

Our headquarters is at 1425 W State Rd 434, Suite 113, Longwood, FL 32750, right on the 434 corridor in Seminole County. That puts us a short drive north of downtown Orlando and a few minutes from Winter Park, so if you’ve been searching for Semper Consulting Orlando or Semper Consulting Winter Park, you’re in the right neighborhood. The office is open Monday through Friday, 9 to 5, and (321) 219-7366 rings straight to it.

Central Florida isn’t just where we keep an office, it’s where most of us are from. Our recruiter, Mackenzie Topinka, was born and raised in Apopka and spent years working in DeLand before she joined us. Phyllis Lai, one of our Sales Representative Leaders, moved to Orlando at eighteen and built her career here. When we say local, we mean the people, not just the address.

And the map is starting to grow. This summer we opened in Savannah, Georgia, with an office led by Alyra Tiemkongkarn, who developed into that role right here in Longwood. That’s how we plan to keep expanding: grow leaders at home, then send them somewhere new. Not bad for a company that opened in April 2024.

A Quick Guide to the Other Sempers

With genuine respect to everyone involved, here’s the cheat sheet:

The Semper Group, also known as Semper International, is a Boston-based staffing agency that has served the printing and packaging industry since the mid-1990s. Great at what they do. Not us.

Semper Consulting, LLC is a business consulting agency in Plymouth, Michigan, founded in 2018. They’re a certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business, which makes them the easiest mix-up on this list: two veteran-connected companies with nearly the same name. Different state, different service, different people. We’ve never met, but we wish them well.

We’re not a staffing agency or a temp service. We hire and develop our own team, and that team represents our clients directly.

Now That You Know Which One

A veteran-led sales firm in Florida with a Marine Corps name and a Longwood address is pretty specific, and we’re happy to be it.

If you’d like to confirm you’ve got the right one, our LinkedIn, our Crunchbase profile, and our BBB listing all point back to the same Longwood address. Same goes for what our team says about working here. And if you got an email from us and weren’t expecting it, we wrote a whole guide on how to check that it’s really us, plus one on why we reached out about your resume in the first place.

Still have questions? We keep answers to the common ones here. And if you’re ready to see what working here looks like, careers at Semper Consulting lists what’s open in Longwood and beyond.

If you landed here by accident while looking for a different Semper, no worries at all. Now you know where we are.

Job Offer Giving Scam Vibes? Semper Consulting’s Guide to Spotting the Fakes

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A recruiter you’ve never heard of just messaged you about a sales job. The pay sounds fine, the tone is friendly, and something in your gut says: wait.

Listen to that. Sales job offer scams are real, and entry-level candidates in Central Florida are a common target. This guide shows you how to tell if a job offer is legit with a check you can run in about ten minutes. At the end, we put Semper Consulting through the same check, because a company that asks you to verify it should be willing to go first.

Why Job Seekers Are Right to Be Cautious

Scammers post jobs in the same places honest employers do, and their messages get more polished every year. The Federal Trade Commission keeps a standing guide to job scams because the reports never stop: fake work-from-home roles, “reshipping” jobs, offers that arrive with a check you’re asked to partially send back. Around Orlando, marketing and sales job offers draw extra suspicion because the roles are often entry-level, the outreach is often cold, and the titles can sound vague.

None of that makes a given offer fake. It does mean the burden of proof sits with the company, not with you.

Job Offer Scam Red Flags

If any of these show up, slow down.

  • They ask you for money. Training kits, background-check fees, equipment deposits, “onboarding” charges. A real employer pays you, never the reverse.
  • They want sensitive information before you’ve talked to a human. Bank details, a Social Security number, a photo of your ID. Payroll paperwork comes after you accept an offer, not in the first email.
  • The email domain doesn’t match the company. Free webmail accounts, lookalike domains, one letter off. Read it character by character.
  • The address can’t be verified. No office on Google, no listing, no photos, or an address that turns out to be a mailbox store.
  • There’s pressure to act now. “Offer expires tonight” is a sales tactic, not a hiring practice.
  • The job is vague, but the pay is specific. Big weekly numbers with no clear description of what you’d actually do all day.
  • You’re offered the job without an interview. Or the entire “interview” happens in a chat app with someone who won’t take a phone or video call.
  • A check shows up early. If you’re asked to deposit a check and send part of it somewhere, stop. That’s the overpayment scam the FTC warns about most.

What a Legitimate Offer and Process Look Like

Real outreach has a name attached, a company email domain, a specific position, and a physical office you can look up. The person who contacts you can tell you where they found you. There’s a conversation, then an interview, then an offer, in that order. Nothing costs you anything at any step, and nobody needs your bank information until you’ve accepted a role and are filling out payroll forms.

A legitimate employer is also fine with you doing your homework first. If asking questions makes a recruiter defensive, that’s your answer.

How to Vet a Company in Ten Minutes

  1. Search the company name plus its city. A real business has a website, a Google Business listing with an address and hours, and social profiles active for more than a few weeks.
  2. Match the email domain to the website. The part after the @ should be the same domain the website uses.
  3. Look up the people. The recruiter who messaged you should have a LinkedIn profile that lists the company. So should the leadership.
  4. Read the reviews, plural. Check Google, Indeed, and the Better Business Bureau and look for patterns. One anonymous thread is a data point, not a verdict.
  5. Check the state registry. In Florida, Sunbiz lets you confirm a company is registered and active. It takes a minute.
  6. Call the number on the website, not the one in the email. If the office picks up and knows the recruiter’s name, you’re done.

Is Semper Consulting Legit? Here’s How We Stack Up

Fair is fair. We ran Semper Consulting through the same six steps, so you can check every line yourself.

  • Search us. Semper Consulting is a sales firm in Longwood, FL that represents national cellular, fiber, and TV providers through face-to-face sales. The office is at 1425 W State Rd 434, Suite 113, Longwood, FL 32750, and the phone number is (321) 219-7366. We’re listed with the Better Business Bureau under Longwood.
  • Match the domain. Recruiting messages come from ad***@***************ng.com, the same domain as the website. Anything else is not us.
  • Look up the people. Our recruiter, Mackenzie Topinka, sends outreach. Marine Corps veteran Tyler Lozier founded the company, and our team is on LinkedIn with names and faces.
  • Read the reviews. Semper Consulting reviews are on Google and Indeed. Read all of them, not just one.
  • Check the registry. Semper Consulting is an active Florida corporation on Sunbiz, and the company profile is also on Crunchbase.
  • Call the office. Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. Ask for whoever emailed you.

Here’s the part that matters most: nobody here will ever ask you for money, bank details, a Social Security number, or a copy of your ID before you’ve interviewed with a real person. We find candidates on LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter, and if you’re wondering why we reached out about your resume, we wrote that down too. If you do move forward, here’s what your first 90 days look like.

Ready to Check Us Out?

If a message from us is sitting in your inbox, run the ten-minute check first. Then reply with your questions. Semper Consulting hires for entry-level sales jobs in Florida; every interview is with a real person, and the address is the one above. Come see it for yourself.

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