LinkedIn Search Operators

LinkedIn has documented the operators firstname:, lastname:, title:, company:, and school:. They are redundant because we can search using the relevant textboxes. But it turns out there are many more search operators that work on LinkedIn.

Below is a list of LinkedIn search operators that work with any basic or premium account, in the main search box. Many of the search facets I have discovered have only been available in LinkedIn Recruiter, and the operator headline:, uniquely, works only in a basic/premium account!

For each operator, you can use it with several values in the quotation marks, which means an AND of terms. For example, headline:"engineer senior" searches for both words senior and engineer to appear in the headlines (but not for a phrase).

You can certainly combine the operators and use the Boolean logic.

Note that the values calculated by LinkedIn are less reliable than those entered by members, no matter which account you use to search (I have marked those in the last column).

Tip Sheet - LinkedIn Search Operators

Operator	Meaning	Values	Calculated by LinkedIn
headline:	search for keywords in Headline		no
skills:	search for keywords in Skills		no
spokenlanguage:	search for language proficiency by a language name		no
startyear:	search for the start year in college		no
endyear:	search for the end year in college		no
geo:	search for a Geoname	Geonames	no
title:	search for current job title		no
company:	search for current company name		no
school:	search for school name		no
firstname:	search for first name		no
lastname:	search for last name		no
industry:	search for the industry by Industry code	Industry Codes	no
seniority:	search for seniority	Seniority Codes	yes
profilelanguage:	search for profiles in other languages by a two-letter language abbreviation	Language Codes	no
functions:	search for functions	Job Functions	yes
yoe:	search for “years of experience”