Recruiters & Sourcers, just a friendly reminder to not index too highly on the "Job titles" selection in the search criteria on LinkedIn Recruiter, Recruiter Lite, Sales Navigator, or the main platform. I just talked to a great software engineer whose only title they've ever had listed on LinkedIn is: Beep Boop 🚀 I would not have found them had I used the job titles selection, even if I included Engineer, software engineer, SDE, SWE, dev, developer, founding engineer, founder, coder, builder, eng*. I'm not saying there's never a time to use that part of the search function, but generally a solid Boolean string in the keywords box is all you need. #whatsinaname #recruiting #sourcing
Alex Maher
2mo
You can use booleans in the job title search too :) ("Software engineer" OR "SWE" OR "SDE" OR "beep boop")
Daniel Panizza
2mo
what boolean code helped you find them?
With all the options in LinkedIn Recruiter, to add in a variety of search qualifiers, how often do you actually use boolean strings? In my last two (corporate) jobs I think I only used them a few times, for uncommon roles, where I could plug some distinctive words to narrow down candidates. Thoughts?
Mike Kabongo
2mo
I rarely use them.
Liz Woehrle
1mo
The ever elusive perfect boolean search. The worst feeling in the world is to think you have the perfect search and bam....nothing pulls. whomp whomp whomp
Laura H.
2mo
So true. Thanks for sharing David
Nathan Saldo 💭
2mo
R2-D2 would be proud
Ken Armes
2mo
this post is fantastic. no thought leadership mumbo-jumbo bullshit - just something that can actually help with the grind. thanks for sharing!
Jay Green
2mo
That needs to be my new title!
cto / svp :: engineering leader + data and ai evangelist :: recovering ceo and founder :: hr tech disciple
2moI'd worry a little bit about hiring this SWE, since beep beep bop means I love you in binary code and they clearly don't know boundaries (beep boop is way too close). I mean, your people are definitely engaged if they respect and like you, but dude, telling everyone you love them? Where's binary HR when you need them?