LinkedIn has not failed to create UI/UX that doesn’t do what we expect it to do. It’s been a Sourcer’s delight to figure out the “ins” of LinkedIn and, in particular, LinkedIn Recruiter (which I extensively use for sourcing) over the years. To add to the confusion, LinkedIn often makes “helpful” adjustments to its software, and what it exactly does …
A LinkedIn Recruiter Flaw You Should Know About
I have a European client who keeps coming back with the same request, to source for a particular job opening. They are growing and are looking for multiple people who match the same requirement. By now, the number of profiles I have sourced for them is getting close to 1,000. As I repeat the search, ideally, I would like to …
LinkedIn Accounts Comparison
Let’s take a look at what various LinkedIn types of accounts offer. LinkedIn has “personal” and “professional” account types. Personal are basic, career, and business subscriptions. All personal accounts have the same search filters (there are no “premium” filters for a business account). Professional are Recruiter Lite, LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR), Sales Navigator, and Sales Navigator Team. Number of Search Results …
LinkedIn Recruiter: More Confusion
Remember, LinkedIn Recruiter finds more results when we enter a company name vs. point to a company object? We discussed this in LinkedIn Recruiter: Not WYSIWYG. Well, it turns out that, when searching for job titles, it is the opposite: selecting a value (Software Engineer, in the screenshot) brings many more results than entering the same words in quotation marks – …
The Opposite Bug in LIR
Two days after I published an astonishing discovery on the space ” ” providing extra results, LinkedIn Recruiter quietly changed its search algorithm – again! (Big thanks to several colleagues who tried the searches, no longer saw the same results as I had posted, and alerted me). Could be, LinkedIn fixed the LinkedIn Recruiter problem? After the change, both examples in …
Search by Ideal Candidate? #LIR
An “ideal candidate” is a notion of importance when sourcing talent. When we source, we always ask for one, or better, several profiles of “ideal” candidates. Even with a well-written job description and clearly specified parameters, such as location, target job titles, years of experience, salary range, must-haves and nice-to-haves – there can be some unverified assumptions as to whom the hiring manager and her team want …
The Reason Why We Love LinkedIn Recruiter #LIR
The LinkedIn Recruiter Talent Pipeline was first rolled out in 2012. It is included in the LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) subscription at no extra charge. In my mind, Talent Pipeline is one of the best LIR features; I have used it successfully for sourcing projects in numerous industries and locations. However (based on our teaching Talent Sourcing and talking to many LIR subscribers), …
Well-Hidden Secret: LIR “Hiring Manager”
If at least one of your colleagues has access to LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR), you can take advantage of that for sourcing and searching. Team members and collaborators can re-use another member’s LIR subscription and perform unlimited searches – without breaking any rules. The key is to use the little-known “Hiring Manager” add-on functionality. Let me show you how. I have access to LIR, but was not aware …
LinkedIn Basic Search is Galene – LIR Search is Lucene
It was comforting for some LinkedIn Recruiter users to hear about the search results discrepancies, shared previously in the posts Discrepancies in Search: LinkedIn Recruiter vs. Personal LinkedIn Basic Search is Semantic – LIR Search is NOT. Here is some feedback I got: “GREAT GREAT GREAT article on the discrepancies in search (LIR vs Personal LinkedIn). A few colleagues and I …
LinkedIn Basic Search is Semantic – LIR Search is NOT
In the previous post Discrepancies in Search: LinkedIn Recruiter vs. Personal we looked at some differences in the search results. While we have no word from @LinkedIn, my guess is that the Basic search does additional “lightly semantic” interpretation of the search queries, which leads to those differences. (1) THE REASON BEING THE INDUSTRY In the first example with “computer games”, …
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