This is not for the weak of hearts, however, you can cut through maddening amounts of time by using LinkedIn’s Advanced Search tool and some “Code Guy” type techniques.
Let’s look at how this works and then the operators that can help drive very interesting searches in far less time.
Tough? Let’s look at how we can make this simple:
If you would like to do a complex search (for instance, finding vice presidents or directors of divisions) you can combine terms like this: VP OR (director AND division). This will find people who have VP in their profiles, or have director AND division in their profiles.
Example: school:Harvard company:LinkedIn title:(founder OR ceo)
Now let’s look at a more complex search which can dial in on exactly who you may need to find:
Example: school:Oxford company:LinkedIn fname:reid lname:hoffman
As you will see, time and relevance will prove useful in understanding how to search for opportunity with complex operators, even for people with limited knowledge of advanced search techniques. Try it out to reduce your speed-to-revenue while spending quality time cutting down on time spent looking through pages of search results verses a few pages of highly qualitative results.
Looking forward to your comments or questions.
