How to Find The Total Number of LinkedIn Members
On March 22nd, LinkedIn announced that they had officially crossed the 100 Million member mark. However, they might have actually crossed the 100 Million member milestone back in January. How would I know? I started seriously exploring LinkedIn Ads ever since they announced that they emerged from beta on 1/26/2011, and I noticed that once [...]
LinkedIn’s Dark Matter – Undiscovered Profiles
Sourcing has a fundamental problem: All searches return results. Yes, that is actually a problem. Why? Because everyone’s a winner. Type in a few keywords and BAM! – you get some good looking results. Hey, this sourcing stuff isn’t so hard! If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times – sourcing is [...]
LinkedIn Sourcing Challenge – X-Ray Location False Positives
I was extremely pleased to receive many responses/solutions to the Ruby LinkedIn Sourcing Challenge I posted recently, including some from well-known online sourcing heavyweights, as well as a number from other talented folks who came out of the Internet ether from several continents to show off their skills and take a crack at solving the [...]
LinkedIn Makes Obvious Moves to Affect X-Ray Searching
If you happen to do quite a bit of LinkedIn X-Ray searching, you might be noticing that some people are taking control of how they appear in public search results. Or maybe you aren’t noticing it, because you can’t. Confused? Read on to learn more. LinkedIn Profile Changes I’m not exactly sure when this change [...]
LinkedIn Sourcing Challenge – Ruby
During my SourceCon NYC session, I gave an example of a sourcing challenge that can verify one’s “capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge. It is the ability to analyze novel problems, identify patterns and relationships that underpin these problems and the extrapolation of these using logic.” This capacity is otherwise [...]
Update Your Bing X-Ray Searches of LinkedIn to Target Profiles
Beginning early last week, I’ve had a few people reach out to me and ask about some changes LinkedIn is apparently making to the public profile listings. In the past, I’ve written about how Bing is easier and more effective at searching LinkedIn profiles than Google. One of my suggestions for targeting profiles an [...]
How to Use LinkedIn’s Advanced Operators as Search Agents
In January 2009, I wrote a feature about LinkedIn’s advanced operators. Two years later, I am still surprised that remarkably few people leverage the ability to bypass LinkedIn’s advanced search interface and “hand-code” search strings. Before I demonstrate how you can use LinkedIn’s advanced operators as search agents, here is a quick refresher detailing [...]
18 LinkedIn Apps, Tools, and Resources
I tweeted the other day about LinkedIn’s Resume Builder and I got a number of surprising responses from people I would have assumed would already know that LinkedIn had a resume builder. LinkedIn has been cranking out new features and tools, and I realize that it’s too easy for me to assume that everyone else [...]
Does LinkedIn Offer Recruiters Any Competitive Advantage?
When I spoke at the LinkedIn Talent Connect event last year, I dropped a big question on the 500+ audience: “What’s your informational and competitive advantage when you all have access to the same people?” Think about it. If you have a LinkedIn Recruiter account (over 55% of the Fortune 100 do!), you have access [...]
Have You Analyzed the Value of Your LinkedIn Network?
When someone connects to you on LinkedIn, they gain the benefit of any non-overlapping network connections from your first and second degree network. Your first degree connections become their second, and your second degree connections become their third. Have you ever taken a look at your LinkedIn network at the first and second to see [...]
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