15. grow your recruiter network
connect with every recruiter locally (both corporate and 3rd party)
connect with every recruiter who works for companies on your target list
connect with every recruiter nationally who recruits people just like you
16. grow your relevant network
connect with everyone who manages the people who do what you do
connect with everyone who does what you do / what you want to do
connect with everyone who supports the people who do what you do
28. boolean
AND OR
civil engineer civil engineer
(MUST) (MUST) (…) forcing the order (MIGHT) (MIGHT)
civil AND engineer civil OR engineer
civil mechanical
(MIGHT) (MIGHT)
engineer
NOT (-) “ ” (exact match)
(MUST)
civil engineer
civil engineer engineer AND
(civil OR mechanical) (NOT) (NOT)
(MUST) (NOT)
“civil engineer”
civil NOT engineer
29. the kitchen sink approach
java -recruiter -manager -director -vp -vice (j2ee OR jee5 OR jee6) -java -recruiter -
manager -director -vp -vice
CURRENT JOB TITLE SEARCH: "sw" OR
"s/w" OR "swe" OR "swd" OR "sde" OR
(jee5 OR jee6 OR j2ee OR Java) AND (hibernate OR struts "developer" OR "programmer" OR
OR spring) -recruiter -manager -director -vp -vice "software engineer" OR "applications
engineer"
31. site: operator
site:dell.com AND (director OR vp)
site:
– Limits results to certain keywords
within a specific site or domain
– There can be no space between
site: and the search phrase
32. x-ray searches
site:linkedin.com AND “current * sales" AND
(“Canon” OR “IKON” OR “pitney bowes” OR
“ricoh”) AND "greater atlanta area“ -director -
"sales manager" -"v.p." -"vp" -"vice president“ -
inurl:dir
site:linkedin.com AND "Microsoft Dynamics AX
Professionals [2000+]" AND "greater chicago
area"
33. external profile & email addresses
site:linkedin.com AND ("@comcast.net" OR
site:linkedin.com AND ("websites * my
"@gmail.com" OR "@yahoo.com" OR
resume" OR "websites * my profile") AND
"hotmail.com") AND "java" AND "j2ee" AND
"java" AND "greater seattle area" inurl:pub -
"greater seattle area" inurl:pub -inurl:dir -
inurl:dir -inurl:jobs
inurl:jobs