Tipsheet Advanced Search
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The document provides tips for conducting advanced searches on LinkedIn to find qualified candidates for job openings. It recommends reviewing the job description to identify key words and phrases to include in the search. Boolean operators and filters can be used to refine results by factors like location, industry, experience level, and current/past companies. Saved searches with alerts can be re-run periodically to find new profiles matching the criteria. Joining relevant groups and using other LinkedIn research tools can also aid the search process.
Tipsheet Advanced Search
- 1. Tip Sheet – Advanced Search Tips The right person you’re looking for is already on LinkedIn. The key is in knowing how to build an effective search that will help you find prospective candidates with the skills, experience and qualifications required to fill the position. Search for what people do, not just words they say. 1. Review the job description and enter key words and phrases that you would expect to find in a highly qualified candidate's profile in the appropriate advanced search fields to build your search string. Keyword searches will search all text in the profile. Adding Boolean modifiers (AND, OR, NOT, parenthesis and quotes) can help pinpoint candidates with the skills and prior experience required. 2. Use refinement filters to further refine your results by: o Current/past companies o Relationship to you o Industry o Company Size o Fortune o Company Type o Location o Level of Seniority o Years in Current Position o Years at Company o Years of Experience o All Groups o Schools o Recommendations o Profile languages o Interest in opportunities o When they joined Linkedin Page 1 of 3 LinkedIn Copyright © 2011
- 2. Tip Sheet – Advanced Search Tips The top 5 for each filter will show by default. Select “Show more… to view the top 10 and add additional criteria to the input box in the filter. For example, in this picture, you could choose Greater New York and enter London into the input box to look for profiles in those two locations. 3. Review and add profiles to the clipboard or save them to a Project for save keeping. 4. Finally, save your search and turn on the alert! Then you can run the search again in the future and Recruiter will run the search automatically each night looking for new members or profiles that match. Join Groups Groups allow LinkedIn members to discover, share and participate in a number of professional conversations happening in their industry and areas of interest. Identify target Groups on LinkedIn.com by searching by required skill/industry After you run a search in Recruiter select My Groups filter to identify additional Groups Join Open Groups without approval by group moderator Encourage Hiring Managers to join groups that Recruiters are not given membership to by the group moderator If you reached your 50 group limit follow Open Group content Use Research Tools LinkedIn.com has different tools that you can use as part of the research process. Use LinkedIn Skills to find related terms, professionals in your network, target companies, and relevant groups Use LinkedIn Company Pages to determine Target companies Use Career Explorer to reverse engineer your candidate career by entering the field of study, degree & industry required Page 2 of 3 LinkedIn Copyright © 2011
- 3. Tip Sheet – Advanced Search Tips Starting the Search Use the information you’ve gathered to start the Advanced Search. Use Boolean to build complex strings and save the search and create alert Create and save Custom Filters Use NOT to exclude the #1 skill, but mine Related Groups to find candidates who haven't explicitly listed it in their profile Start broadly to gather profile intelligence (All Groups, Target Companies, Locations, etc) Use the Clipboard to save profiles quickly for review later Use Projects to save profiles and create candidate pipelines When looking at profiles, use Right-‐click, open in new tab so you don't lose your place in your results Page 3 of 3 LinkedIn Copyright © 2011