7 Reasons To X-Ray Search LinkedIn Through Google Than Internal Search

Posted by Holly Fawcett

Most effective ways we find is an X-ray Search through Google or Bing. Here’s 7 reasons why:

Reason 1: Full Names (always)

As we’re all aware as LinkedIn users, conducting an Advanced Search of LinkedIn means that you’ll get first and second degree connections’ full profiles. Once you hit third-degree or no-relationship connections, their surnames or even full names will be hidden. A major advantage to searching LinkedIn through Google or Bing is that LinkedIn will never hide the person’s full name, plus you’ll be given the option to connect with that person. Around 85% of all LinkedIn profiles are publicly accessible through search engines, meaning that professionals wish for their profiles to be found by potential clients, business partners and employers.

Reason 2: 1000 results in Google and Bing (versus only 100 on a free account in LinkedIn)

When conducting a search for people on LinkedIn in LinkedIn, depending on your level of account, you can only see 100 results if you’re on a free Basic account. By “seeing” 100 results, we don’t mean actually clicking in to their profile – we mean just scanning over 10 pages of search results. After 100 results you’ll be cut off and told to upgrade if you want to see more. By X-ray searching LinkedIn via a Google or Bing X-ray search, you’re permitted to see up to 1000 results generated (the limit of what you can see on any Google or Bing search, i.e. 100 pages). It can cost several thousand dollars a year to see 1000 results in a paid LinkedIn account.

Reason 3: You can use *

In Google, the use of the asterisk to represent between 1 and 5 missing words is permitted, whereas in LinkedIn it’s not supported. This kind of Boolean Search Modifier is ideal for searching for job titles that have something in the middle of two words, like when you search for “Sales Manager” in quotations so as to zone in on that specific title, you won’t pick up on all of those people who are called “Sales and Marketing Manager”, Sales/Marketing Manager”, “Sales Development Manager”, “Sales Supervisor/Manager”, “Sales Training Manager”, or “Sales Customer Support Manager” – the list is endless. If you were to search LinkedIn, you’d have to manually type all of these variations into your search, but in Google you just write “Sales * Manager” to find all those with funny job titles. Of which there are millions.

Using the asterisk in a Google search brings you loads of hidden job titles

Reason 4: Search across Multiple Countries and Regions

Advanced Searching LinkedIn will only focus on one country at a time. There’s no way of starting a search for both Ireland and the UK or New York and Connecticut and New Jersey in one search. You have to individually modify your search each time or add lots of different countries or regions manually in the filters to the left of your search results. That’s frankly too much effort. Instead, you can search for multiple locations using an X-ray search, by looking for specific terms that represent regions or looking at multiple URL types that signify countries, like for example searching for candidates in both Ireland and the UK, just look for:

(site:ie.linkedin.com OR site:uk.linkedin.com)

Reason 5: Search Date Fields

Searching LinkedIn does not give you the option to search by date. The dates of someone’s employment are not available to the search engine, they are essentially “hidden” from your search paramaters regardless of your account access. This feature is particularly useful when looking for contractors or recent graduates, or people who’ve just left their job. Searching for grads who left college at the end of term last year is easy when you search like this:

site:ie.linkedin.com -inurl:dir -inurl:jobs -inurl:company -inurl:groups (“university college Dublin” OR “ucd”) (“2008 * 2011″ OR “2009 * 2012″)

Obviously just substitute the specific university or multiple universities with what you’re looking for, and add your keywords for skills and other criteria. This kind of search is absolutely unavailable internally in LinkedIn.

Reason 6: Better Search Order

If conducting an Advanced Search of LinkedIn, LinkedIn will produce results in order of relationship to you, prioritizing more full profiles (100% complete) than emptier ones. This may not be the best order to prioritize your results, because the person on page 11 which you’re not allowed view because you’re using a free LinkedIn account may actually be the most relevant person with the keywords you’re searching for. When it comes to relevancy in search, leave it to the pro’s. Google’s search algorithm and SERP ranking order, while a mystery to non-Google employees, seems to order results that are the most relevant and contain the highest frequency of your key search terms.

Reason 7: You can accurately search for Languages

Searching internally in LinkedIn does not search for Languages. Yes there is a language filter, but that actually searches for profile language, not the languages people have stated that they speak. Searching LinkedIn through a search engine searches the words on their profile page. LinkedIn will not produce a person that said they have the skill “native or bilingual proficiency” in French when their profile is in English. Google will find them.

Searching-for-Languages-in-LinkedIn-via-Google

Do you find X-ray searching LinkedIn to be more beneficial than an internal Advanced Search? Why? Put your thoughts in the comments.

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Trying to Fetch Java Developer who are based out in Detroit, MI,

Use this simple X-Ray Google Search String..

site:www.facebook.com (Java AND J2EE) ("Detroit" OR MI) inurl:people

If you Intend to find Java Professionals Based out in Chicago, IL and New York, NY and New Jersey, NJ.. Simple have those locations mentioned in your X-Ray Search..

site:www.facebook.com (Java AND J2EE) (("Chicago" AND IL) OR ("New York" OR NY) OR ("New Jersey" OR NJ)) inurl:people

Try with other Search strings.. and if you come across anything interesting.. Please let me know.. (Leave a comment below)

Vadali Prakash.

Strategic Recruiter

.....striving to help applicants in their job search

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Fetching Contact details of a Candidate whom found @ Linked is bit challenging..

You can try fetching Candidate's contact details @

Besides the above they are many other portals. I generally use the above three portals.. to reach Consultants.

Picture Illustration..

Vadali Prakash.

Strategic Recruiter

.....striving to help applicants in their job search

Illustration:-
Trying to Fetch profile of Marketing and Sales Executives pertaining to Retain Industry..

Used the following string in google..

+Retail +Marketing|sales (site:www.linkedin.com/pub OR site:www.linkedin.com/in) -"pub/dir" Experience Present florida -Director

Detailed Explanation:-

+Retail +Marketing|sales   I am trying to identify a person who is working in RETAIL Industry who does either Marketing or Sales.

(site:www.linkedin.com/pub OR site:www.linkedin.com/in) A simple google X-Ray Search trying to fetch profiles from Linkedin

-"pub/dir"  Avoiding Public Directory Listing.. .. I dont want this..

Experience Present Just an effort to identify professional's who are currently working in Retail Industry and who is either an Marketing and/or Sales Professional.

florida Just an effort to fetch information of professional who are currently based at Florida

You can also try Tampa Florida   Chicago Illinois   or whatsoever..

-Director  Not seeking professional who worked and/or are currently working as "Director"

I believe this is Much better way to fetch candidate's professional profile rather using Conventional Linkedin Search and/or Advanced Search feature...

Fetching professional profiles of prospective candidate @ Linkedin using Google.... has advantage's.. you will know it when you use it..

I Love to hear your feedback and valuable suggestions.

Follow me @

Facebook for News and Article - Pertaining to Recruiting Industry...

                       copied from Various sources for your perusal.

Blog   ** for few Motivational and Career Tips **

   Will Remove JOB OPPORTUNITIES SECTION &
                    Re-Write my Blog from Scratch....

  to help fellow Recruiter's & Staffing professional's enabling
                them to see the unseen

Content of this Re-Written Blog would have lot of information about

Internet Researching

Various sourcing Strategic

Tips to efficiently use Social Networking site.. to accomplish your tasks..

Market Trends

Inspirational Articles from the Leader of this Industry

Video's

And alot more.. (would appreciate your inputs and suggestions)

Linkedin for my Public Profile...

Jobs for Current HOT Job Opportunities with Axius Technologies Inc.

BranchOut Working on this ..

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Vadali Prakash.

Strategic Recruiter

.....striving to help applicants in their job search

Before starting this.,

I would sincerely thank one of the Hiring Manager (sorry I don't remember his name) @ CES, Hyderabad. Who screened me back in 2007.. He strongly believed that a Potential Recruiter is a person who can work with and with out any resources.. And asked how would I perform my duties provided if his Company doesn't provide me any resources.

I was astonished to hear such a Statement from a Person of his Stature., I didn't understand what he meant., I was speechless, I said I work on Google and Yahoo Groups, he was not convinced., I am sure you can imagine what had happened., My Candidature was not considered.

Was inspired and curious to learn and understand how a person could possibly work without using Job Boards.. Without any hesitation, I sough his assistance., he suggested me to use Linkedin and Google..

Linkedin was Geek to me.. never heard about Linkedin nor was I aware what Linkedin was.... till that day..

and my Journey to Excel as a Strategic Sourcer/Recruiter started..

Tried to Google and learn.. but in vain.. Thought it will be good if I can understand how Google Search Engine works and referred. www.googleguide.com

Here I refer my first successful GOOGLE RESUME SEARCH STRING... (though not 100% accurate it worked)

-submit -recruiter -careers -opportunity -requirement -sample -template -jobs intext:(resume|cv|vitae) (pdf|doc|rtf|txt|xls) Java J2EE

Detailed Explanation:-

-submit -recruiter -careers -opportunity -requirement -sample -template -jobs

Used this string to ignore results of webpages which has "submit recruiter careers opportunity requirement sample template & Job"
Which are in general Recruiter's use most of the times in their job posting
Just an effort to bypass all job posting and other Resume writing Services..

intext:(resume|cv|vitae)

intext: is Google Search Engine Operator., intext"(resume|cv|vitae) will return documents that mentioned the words "resume" or "cv" or "vitae" in the text.,

If you intended to have multiple Must to have words you may also use.

[allintext:Java j2EE]

(pdf|doc|rtf|txt|xls)

Trying to fetch results of Search string in PDF Word Wordpad Text and XLS files..

Java J2EE

Trying to fetch a potential Java J2EE Profile..

I Love to hear your feedback and valuable suggestions.

Follow me @

Facebook for News and Article - Pertaining to Recruiting Industry...

                       copied from Various sources for your perusal.

Blog   ** for few Motivational and Career Tips **

   Will Remove JOB OPPORTUNITIES SECTION &
                    Re-Write my Blog from Scratch....

  to help fellow Recruiter's & Staffing professional's enabling
                them to see the unseen

Content of this Re-Written Blog would have lot of information about

Internet Researching

Various sourcing Strategic

Tips to efficiently use Social Networking site.. to accomplish your tasks..

Market Trends

Inspirational Articles from the Leader of this Industry

Video's

And alot more.. (would appreciate your inputs and suggestions)

Linkedin for my Public Profile...

Jobs for Current HOT Job Opportunities with Axius Technologies Inc.

BranchOut Working on this ..

Vadali Prakash.

Strategic Recruiter

.....striving to help applicants in their job search

Twelve Power Searches Techniques - Rayn Leary

Source :

http://www.recruitingwebinars.com/

** Twelve Power Searches Techniques **

Presented by Rayn Leary

Open Web                                                                        Unique Techniques

People on the Move                                                    TLD: Top Level Domain Searching

List Searching                                                              Spelling Variation and Notations

Searching the First Person                                   What does your candidate say

Proximity Search                                                         Fill in the Blank ____ * ______

Facebook Groups                                                        Around the Town Search

Recently update Profiles                                        Follower Search [Twitter]

Power Search 1: “People on the Move”

This Technique can help recruiter.. reaching a highly potential candidate..

Most of the Journals (college and others) and Magazines and other daily publish information of people who are influential and/or to track and keep record of their puple.

People on Move is Great for:

·         Promotions and company announcements of employees.

·         Identifying Prospective names for leads and conversations.

·         Targetting NewPapers, Journals, Magazines., etc.,

Google / Bing -                 Generic Search String:

“People on the Move” (“KEYWORD” | “KEYWORD”) (appointed | joined | announced | promoted | transferred | “was named” | resignation | resigned)

Notes:

KEYWORD .. can be anything.. your search string.. and/or skill..

Ex: VP or Vice President or Director or “Java” and “Architect”.. bla... bla.... bla...

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

“People on the Move” (VP | “Vice President”) (sale | Sales) (appointed | joined | announced | promoted | transferred | “was named” | resignation | resigned)

You may also consider adding    (email | contact |mobile |phone | cell ) as an extended string

for refined search which will populate result with contact info

Power Search 2: “List Searching”

List and Association Searching:

·         Use for associations, committees, staff and memberships emails and contacts

·         Targets emails and contacts but you can adjust to target additional information

·         Use this search to identify target lists of competitors that may have attended conference and or publis lists.

Google / Bing -                 Generic Search String

(“KEYWORD OR KEYWORD OR KEYWORD) (inurl:list | inurl:~members | inurl:directory | intitle:list | intitle:~members | intitle:~directory | inurl:staff | inurl:association | inurl:board | inurl:committee | intitle:association | intitle:board | intitle:committee | intitle:staff) (email | contact | phone | cell) (ext:xls | ext:pdf |ext:doc | ext:docx | ext:xlsx)

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

(“Automobile AND SME AND Support) (inurl:list | inurl:~members | inurl:directory | intitle:list | intitle:~members | intitle:~directory | inurl:staff | inurl:association | inurl:board | inurl:committee | intitle:association | intitle:board | intitle:committee | intitle:staff) (email) (ext:xls | ext:pdf |ext:doc | ext:docx | ext:xlsx)

Power Search 3: “Searching the First Person”

Searching the first person will

·         Allow you to find candidates that are writing in conversational form

·         All you find candidates that generally communicate better

·         Get creative with targeting natural language and real sentences

Google / Bing -                 Generic Search String

(I | “I have” | i’ve) (work | worked) (with | for | at (company1 | Company2) (Designation1 | Designation2)

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

(I | “I have” | i’ve) (work | worked) (with | for | at (Accenture) (BPO) (Warranty | SME)

Power Search 4: “Proximity Search with Bing”

Proximity Search will allow you to

·         Search Terms or phrases within a specified distance from each other.

·         Find candidates that have relevant experiences that may not clearly be called out on their resumes

·         Control your variables, keep a tighter search target.

Intended to search a Software Development Manager that has managed a gropu of developers. By Default I keep finding resumes of Software design Managers but the candidates never managed People.. Hiring Manager wants to see someone with people management

Bing -                 Generic Search String (Google doesn’t support Proximity Search)

Software (engineer OR engineering) managed NEAR:3 people (resume OR cv)

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

(BDM OR "Business Development") (Sale | Sales | Marketing) managed NEAR:3 people (resume OR cv)

Power Search 5: “Find More Facebook Groups on the Open Web”

Facebook Groups Searching is Great for:

·         Easier than Searching on Facebook

·         Quicker to Connect

·         More Control over your seach Criteria, Facebook is just aweful for search

Bing -                 Generic Search String (Google doesn’t support Proximity Search)

Site:facebook.com “KEYWORD OF GROUP” inurl:group

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

site:facebook.com "SME" inurl:group -inurl:pages -job -jobs -looking -opening

Power Search 6: “Searching Recently Updated Profiles”

Searching recently updated profiles

·         Helps to find active candidates

·         Stop making the sour passive candidate face.... Active candidates include layoffs, downsizing, voluntary retirement....

·         If you skip these types of resumes your are properly missing a big fee or your Hirning Manger is not getting the best services.

Bing / Google -                 Generic Search String

(resume/cv) “software engineer” “last updated * 2011” –job –jobs –template –example -submit

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

Power Search 7: “Top Level Domains”

Searching Top Level Domains (TLD)

·         Will find candidates that others can never find.

·         Usually returns less results because they are less used.

·         Google TLD..

Bing / Google -                 Generic Search String

(intitle:resume | inurl:resume) KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 .. KEYWORDn site:cc

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

(intitle:resume | inurl:resume) Java Architect site:cc

Power Search 8,9, & 10 Not that usefull.. so Skipping them..

Power Search 11: “Around the Place”

AROUND:    Google Hidden Search Operator

·         Functions the same of Bing’s NEAR Operator.

·         Allows your to target Keywords and job titles AROUND or near specific target companies etc.

Google -                 Generic Search String   (Doesn’t work in BING)

(resume|cv) “software engineer” AROUND(3) philadelphia –jobs –job –apply -submit

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

(resume |CV) “Java Developer” AROUND(3) "New York" -jobs -sample -job -"send resume" -"send cv" -positions –req

Power Search 12: “Followers Search”

Leveraging twitter to find connections and your Targets Followers.

·         Twitter is used to connect not recruit (Recruiting is done on the phone)

·         Target a candidate based on job title and keyword, and number of connections

Google / Bing -                 Generic Search String

“2000..35000 followers” site:twitter.com “Java Developer” –inurl:lists

Fetching a Twitter user who is a “Java Developer” and has about 2000 to 35000 Followers...

Picture Illustration : used the following string.

“2000..35000 followers” site:twitter.com “Java Developer” –inurl:list

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Vadali Prakash.

Strategic Recruiter

.....striving to help applicants in their job search

As usual.,

Last Night I was working on a Requirement.. not being able to find a qualified profile @ Monster.. tried fetching resumes using simple X-Ray Google Search but in vain.. googled for a while.. and accidently I came across this ToolBar.

According to the Publisher... this Toolbar has

200+ Pre-Built Searches
100+ Research Resources
50+ Social Searches.

Was bit messy., though worth trying.. Picture follows:

Please check this website.. for more information: http://www.booleanbar.com/

Vadali Prakash.

Strategic Recruiter

.....striving to help applicants in their job search

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