From the course: Finding a Job on LinkedIn

A recruiter’s perspective: How LinkedIn is used to find candidates - LinkedIn Tutorial

From the course: Finding a Job on LinkedIn

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A recruiter’s perspective: How LinkedIn is used to find candidates

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- [Instructor] It's important to remember that not only can you search for a job on LinkedIn, but a job can search for you. There are recruiters on LinkedIn right now looking to fill jobs with candidates like you. When you're building your LinkedIn profile, it helps to understand how recruiters actually use the platform. They use filters to search for things like job titles, skills, location, and years of experience, and the people who show up in these searches are the ones who have their details clearly listed on their profile. Let's take a look at what a recruiter search looks like. I'm going to switch to a recruiter profile and here is where I could begin searching for candidates to fill a position. I'm going to go in here and start a recruiter search with filters and take a look at what these filters are, the job titles, locations, but there are ones you enter as well, like skills, keywords. If I go to advanced search, you'll see there are a plethora of different filters that they can use here. Now this is why things like your headline, about section, and skills matter so much. They aren't for decoration. They determine whether you show up and stand out. On the left hand side, I'm going to go in and type in, let's say, software engineer. I'll select that, and now at the top I can see that it has 14 million candidates. Well, that's a lot. We haven't entered in a location though. I'll put in a location and we've narrowed that down, and then I can start searching for specific skills. I'll choose one here, I'll select another one. Down below, we can add in keywords, and when we do, this narrows down that list of candidates. It's important for you to stay in that list, but in order to do so, you have to have in the right skills and information on your profile. Now, if there's something that catches their attention, they may click on your profile, send you a message, or save you as a potential match. When they click on your profile, here's what they'll see. They see a summary of your account. Here you have that about section. It's telling them the top skills you have for this position. It also tells them that you follow their company and that you have mutual connections. Down below, you can see their experience, education, recommendations, and more. So as you work on your profile, keep this perspective in mind. You're not just filling in blanks. You're building something that helps recruiters to find you.

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