Adventure continues! By now, I have discovered five more undocumented LinkedIn search operators in addition to those covered in my recent posts Two Undocumented LinkedIn Search Operators and Three More Operators! So here are some other values you thought you couldn’t search for with a free or premium LinkedIn account – but in fact, you can! Let me introduce the additional operators. 1) …
Three More Operators!
I have discovered three more never documented LinkedIn search operators, that work with any free or premium account, in addition to the ones highlighted in Two Undocumented LinkedIn Search Operators. The first one is industry:, with the possible values listed in Industry Codes. Example: industry:47 searches for people in Accounting. While the advanced people search dialog does include industries, the operator provides a way …
Look Up Contacts with Outlook Online
It’s been a while since Microsoft acquired LinkedIn. We have been anticipating some sort of integration between MS Office and LinkedIn, but nothing major has happened. (The “Resume Assistant” in Microsoft Word is a joke! All it does is make the users to add details to their profiles) However, we can now look up contacts (email addresses) in Outlook Online. …
X-Raying Bloomberg for Executives
We have run quite a few Executive Sourcing projects in the last few months, searching for various CxO roles. While LinkedIn is always a site to search, I have found that many executives have “slim” profiles – or no LinkedIn profiles at all! Bloomberg.com has executive bios that we can find by X-Raying on Google. X-Raying can provide excellent results …
Tip: Find Contact Info for LinkedIn Profiles with Social List
Are you using Lusha, Nymeria, ContactOut, Hunter, or other tools and Chrome extensions to find email addresses for LinkedIn profiles? The number of tools to find contact emails for LinkedIn profiles is diminishing, and some tools are raising prices. And, LinkedIn is increasingly watching for members to stay away from contact-finding Chrome extensions (see an excellent post from Josef Kaldec). …
Two Undocumented LinkedIn Search Operators
LinkedIn supports two search operators that they have never documented. There are no blog posts about the operators either; this is the first one. The operators are available in any basic or premium account. Using the operators would substantially increase your productivity while searching. Take a look. Undocumented Operator skills: Syntax: skills:<skill-name> Example: skills:boolean (finds people with the skills “Boolean Search,” “Boolean …
Work Around Restricted Boolean on LinkedIn
As so many of you have encountered, using more than a few ANDs or ORs in a LinkedIn query now results in this screen: (We can still use multiple NOT operators – those are not restricted). I wrote about the unfortunate restriction in a previous post. Don’t feel like upgrading to a more expensive LinkedIn account? I have great news …
Find Phone Numbers by Googling for ☎, ☏, or ✆
Did you know that Google can search for symbols – including these: ☎, ☏, and ✆? We can use this capability to look for publicly posted phone numbers. Use an area code to find phone numbers in a target location. Here is an example: site:nl.linkedin.com/in paas software sales director (☎ OR ☏ OR ✆) 31 Nether LinkedIn nor Facebook can search …
Restricted Boolean on LinkedIn
Since a recent update of the LinkedIn search for personal accounts (including the paid business accounts), we are now seeing the above screen for the searches that used to work fine. Here is what happened. As a push to make people sign up for more expensive accounts, LinkedIn has now restricted the number of Boolean operators we can use in …
LinkedIn Job Search Flaw and a Fix
The LinkedIn job search has a serious flaw. Let me share what it is – and how to work around it. When we are logged into LinkedIn and go to the job search at https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search, we have access to many advanced filters: Do you know what is missing here? The ability to search by the job title! All we can do …