This document provides best practices for searching on LinkedIn Recruiter. It discusses two approaches: a targeted approach that starts with strict criteria and relaxes the search if not enough results, and an open-ended approach that starts broadly and refines the search based on initial results. The document encourages an iterative search process and exploring different criteria, terms, and filters to discover new matches and improve subsequent searches. It also recommends setting up alerts on saved searches that produce good results.

1. LinkedIn Recruiter
Mastery
Lecture
2021 Update
Presenter: Irina Shamaeva
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2. LIR Search Best Practices
• Search is an iterative process
• Approach #1 ("Targeted"):
○ Search for almost everything required, and
relax your search in steps when you are not
finding enough
▪ Start again and relax the search in other ways
▪ Start from another "tight" search and repeat
○ Be practical – incorporate similar titles and skills
to find more
• Advantage: quickly find matching results
○ However, competition will find them too
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3. LIR Search Best Practices
• Approach #2 – "Open-Ended":
○ Start with some "must-have" filters and adjust
the search based on the results, removing "false
positives"
○ Go back and restrict your search in other ways
○ Start with an alternative open-ended search
and do the same
• Advantages
○ Discovers members who have not used the
"right" terms on profiles but are a match
○ More inclusive (gets more results) than
"Targeted"
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4. Questions for You
• How can you tighten the search in
Recruiter? What are the options?
• How can you expand the search?
• How can you alter the search?
• Brainstorm (next slide)
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6. Incorporate Discoveries Into
Search
• Watch the results for new terms
(such as alternative job titles) to use
in consequent searches and:
○ Learn what to always exclude
○ Learn which terms go together
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7. Set Up Alerts
• Save several searches that prove to
produce matching results
• Learn more at LinkedIn Recruiter
Mastery Lecture
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