Comments on: LinkedIn Sourcing Tip: Industry Search Issue

By: Boolean Black Belt

Boolean Black Belt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:59:57 +0000

Thanks Tony!

By: Boolean Black Belt

Boolean Black Belt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:53:16 +0000

Gloria,
You should have no problem printing the entire article out – please let me know if you were unable to do so. Thanks!

By: Gloria

Gloria — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:44:37 +0000

I’m using someone else’s computer, is there any way to capture an Url for this article or otimally, I’d like to print it out in its entirety and for future reference. Thanks much in advance.

By: LinkedIn Sourcing Tip: Searching by Company? Beware!

LinkedIn Sourcing Tip: Searching by Company? Beware! — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:02:51 +0000

[...] I wrote about the intrinsic issues associated with searching LinkedIn for potential candidates with specific indu…, and how using the “Industry” field can actually prevent you from finding the people [...]

By: Tony Gatto

Tony Gatto — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:00:24 +0000

Excellent Article Glen…..

Your site is currently rocking in my book…..

By: william

william — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:29:49 +0000

Behaviorally-speaking, you need to use the fields in your search that most profiles have completed. “Industry” is not one of them. ‘ Company name’, ‘title”, and using geographic modifiers still yield the best results when searching your network. Even ‘keyword’ is not reliable. Happy hunting.

By: Dorothy Giannotti

Dorothy Giannotti — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:18:34 +0000

Glen, I thought your article/instructive piece on using Linkedin searches was excellent, and I thought I was doing a good job using Linkedin…boy, did I just see the light !! thanks again.
Kind regards,
Dorothy

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Twitted by RHHR — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:07:08 +0000

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By: Chris Pomeroy

Chris Pomeroy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:34:05 +0000

Right on Glen, the industry field can be more trouble than it’s worth, giving a false sense of security you are uncovering the right contacts in a search. It’s a major pitfall.

Searchers should stick with hard and fast variables versus delving into attributes people assign themselves based on their opinion. Industry is definitely an imprecise attribute.

Here’s another example of this phenomenon: http://www.peopletoucher.com/2009/02/linkedins-dubious-industry-field