Linkedin For Recruitment Strategic Search Framework

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Cracking The Recruitment LinkedIn Code7 Point Strategic Search

Framework

Total Blueprint Recruitment

Power Strategy

Strategic Search

Framework

Company Branding

Framework

Profile Optimisation Framework

The Total Blueprint 3 Point Framework

Framework• What is LinkedIn and How to Search • 7 Step Search Strategies • Diver

What Is LinkedIn?• 90 Million Profiles• 600,000+ in UK• Free access• Built on Connections

LinkedIn Profile

7 Search Strategies Framework1. Standard Search2. Advanced Search3. Secret Search Tips4. Using Search Engines with LinkedIn5. X-RAY Search6. Proximity Search7. Google Alerts

Strategic Search

Framework

Standard Search

Advanced Search

Secret Search Tips

Search Engines

Search with LinkedIn

X-RAY search

Proximity Search

Google Alerts

Strategic Search

Framework

Standard Search

Advanced Search

Secret Search Tips

Search Engines

Search with LinkedIn

X-RAY search

Proximity Search

Google Alerts

7 Search Strategies Framework

Search Strategy 1Quick Search

How to Search In LinkedIn Enter Search

String here e.g. “Software

Engineer”

Search Strategy 2Advanced

Search

Refine/Advanced SearchRefine Searche.g.

“Location, Company,

Relationship, Job Title etc”

Search Strategy 3Secret Search

Secret Search Tips

• You can search for persons who have joined in the past month, week and day

By entering “joined:m “ for month“joined:w” for week“joined:d” for day

How to find out a 3rd levelConnection’s Full Name

Step 3: Mouseover Forename

Step 2: Click get introduced through

a connection

Step 1: View their Profile

Search Strategy 4Using Search

Engines With LinkedIn

LinkedIn Creates Public Profiles

You can also find out 3rd level connections details with the help of Search Engines

1. Copy a string of text from the connections profile e.g. Their summary

2. Paste it into Bing and Search

3. Bing will present a result with a link to that specific connections LinkedIn profile, but also disclosing their full name, twitter and Facebook account details and more.

Advantages of LinkedIn and Search Engines

Search Strategy 5X-RAY Search

•Using A Search Engine to Search A Specific website (Operators)

•Finding Valuable Information

•Search Engine Comparison

•How to Quickly and Effectively read your results

X-RAY Search

Search Engines Displays to Many IRRELEVANT Results

How To Make Results RELEVANT

Refine the search by:

• Website• Country• Topic

You Can Refine The Search Engine by the Use of Operators

If you want to search the LinkedIn Website but you only want UK connections with relevance to Java

Enter this string to Google “site: uk linkedin.com java “Enter the same search without the “site:” operator

• Google will require you to select the tab

• Where Yahoo and Bing will automatically present you with only the relevant results

•Bing presents more accurate results when searching LinkedIn compared to Google and Yahoo

•Bing’s results list may be half the number of links than Google BUT they are relevant

Search Engine Comparison

How to Read Your Results•Public

Profile

•Company Profile

•Directory Profile

For Example: If you only want to view results which are only public then enter the following string to the search PUBLIC PROFILES

“site: site:linkedin.com uk linkedin.com java inurl:public”

Or to view results which do not contain a specific profile just ADD – in front of URL

“site: site:linkedin.com uk linkedin.com java -inurl:public”

In URL OperatorWith the use of “inurl” Operator

you can refineYour search EVEN MORE

• If you WANT to find something then use the “inurl:”

•If you DON’T WANT to find something use the “-inurl:”

WHY Use These Operators

What is a URL?

Easy way to find if someone is a member of a particular group or company or if a KEYWORD or PHRASE appears in their profile is to enter the

specific word or phrase in speech marks.

This will return a result of all LinkedIn profiles in the UK which has a connection to “London We

Developers” Group

Search Strategy 6Proximity

Search

•Allows you to search profiles where two or more separately matching term occurrences are within a specified distance.

•This can be helpful if you wish find persons of a particular position in a company, for example a Director

•“site:linkedin.com uk current near: 4 director”

Proximity Search

Search Strategy 7Google Alerts

• A system which alerts you automatically when someone else appears, via Email.

• You enter your specific search string

Advantages of X-RAY Search

•It allows more specific searches•LinkedIn limits results to 100•LinkedIn search presents results of people who you are connected with first•From a recruitment point of view, you want to find people who you are not currently connected with

Advantages of LinkedIn Searches

•Join Operator

•Extract Information from Search Engines Automatically to a Excel Spreadsheet

•Broadlook Diver extracts the contact information out of the search engine results of Google, Yahoo,AltaVista and Bing searches.

•Reducing the time spent pouring through results.

•Use your own search query strings

•Find contacts, resumes, companies, emails and phone numbers quickly and easily using basic search methodology

Extra Tools

7 Search Strategies Framework1. Standard Search2. Advanced Search3. Secret Search Tips4. Using Search Engines with LinkedIn5. X-RAY Search6. Proximity Search7. Google Alerts

Standard Search

Advanced Search

Recent Joined

Members Search

Using Search Engines with

X-RAY SearchExploit The

Use of Operators

Proximity Serach

Google Alerts

Strategic Search Flow

Total Blueprint Recruitment

Power Strategy

Strategic Search

Framework

Company Branding

Framework

Profile Optimisation Framework

The Total Blueprint 3 Point Framework

Linkedin For Recruitment Strategic Search Framework

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