Based on my experience sourcing on LinkedIn, here is a list of profile hacks.

To be found more often, both on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter, do this:

• When you enter your data, follow prompts and selections – do not enter unusually spelled names
• Use your industry, not your company’s
• Your companies should point to company pages on LinkedIn; same for schools
• Use…

The never-documented LinkedIn search operators make people search with a personal account - Business, Job Seeker, and Basic - comparable or better than the most expensive subscription, LinkedIn Recruiter. Let's go over a comparison, operator by operator.

headline:

The operator works in LinkedIn Business (and Basic). The search for the headline is absent in…

The LinkedIn hidden search operators are back! Nobody knows for how long they will work this time (we enjoyed them for a year and a half a while ago). But they offer any LinkedIn user, whether basic or paid, significant searching power and filters unavailable with any subscription.

LinkedIn never documented the operators,…

Enjoy!

1. Google No-Captchas(a.k.a. Search Like a Human)
   
   Public link: Search Like a Human– just search for anything without being tested for not being a bot
2. Email Formats – use to discover email patterns for any corporation…

Often, especially when sourcing for executives, we need to answer questions like these):

What are possible job titles at a particular level of seniority, in a given industry (or at a company), with given functions?

Equipped with this intelligence, we can start constructing filtered people searches. Without this research upfront, we would be encountering both false positives and false negatives when searching.

While doing open-ended searches (on…