google boolean search linkedin jill kramer

You can see it at work when viewing your search results: If you didn’t already know why someone would use such a phrase, it’s because it’s a fairly unique phrase found on public LinkedIn profiles, and it appears to be indexed by search engines like Google, so you can search for the phrase to find LinkedIn profiles without having to use things like (inurl:pub | inurl:in) to return profiles, or -dir, -jobs, etc., to prevent non-profile results from being returned. I saw someone use “people you know” in their LinkedIn X-Ray search, presumably to target and isolate LinkedIn profiles and eliminate false positive non-profile results. So my advice is to take other people’s work (including mine!) and experiment. It’s also important to realize that you cannot and should not implicitly trust sourcing advice (or custom search engines) you find online or in training sessions/materials – there is never only one way of doing anything, and the CSE’s you use and the syntax you copy and paste may in fact artificially limit search results and prevent you from finding the best people. People learn by doing, and more specifically by failing/struggling, and not by copying and pasting somebody else’s work. Quite literally 99% of everything I know about sourcing (and recruiting!) I learned through being curious and experimenting. My first reaction when people are curious about the most effective ways of retrieving public LinkedIn profiles is to encourage them to experiment on their own first instead of looking for answers to copy and paste. Using different phrases to target public LinkedIn profiles – e.g., “people you know”.Whether or not you should use “pub” and/or “in” (e.g. site:/in | site:/pub).I’ve recently come across some blog posts and some Boolean Strings discussions on LinkedIn that inspired me to go back and tinker with searching LinkedIn via Google and Bing.įor example, I continue to see people talk about:

Google boolean search linkedin jill kramer