LinkedIn Recruiter: New and Active Job Hunters Preferred
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
LinkedIn’s Chief Product Officer shared how the algorithm helps people find active and new candidates. This video explains what it looks for.
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Tomer Cohen is the Chief Product Officer for LinkedIn. So when he speaks, we all need to pay attention to what he says, because he’s giving us information that’s going to help us be more effective.
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He wrote an article on LinkedIn for his newsletter, where he spoke about a couple of signals that recruiters can use if they use the LinkedIn Recruiter feature on LinkedIn, a paid service that allows them to search the entire database for people.
And within this, there’s a feature called Spotlights. And then there’s a Spotlight feature called Active Talent. That Active Talent Spotlight allows an account to follow signals to help recruiters find people who are open to work, have made profile edits, applied for jobs and shared a public resume. Those are the four big signals.
Now let me go into what he wrote because I think it’s very useful for all of us. The open to work signal includes professionals who have indicated that they’re open to new opportunities on their profile, while keeping this signal private from their current company. Open to work is also taking into account recency so recruiters can focus on new candidates who have shown interest in new opportunities. Now one of the little tricks with this is from time to time, what you do is you have opened to work on, you turn it off for a few days and put it back on. Each of those actions, demonstrates recency to the algorithm, and more likely to refer.
Number two is profile edits. We look at whether a member has made recent edits to their profiles such as a new job title, or changes in their job description as indications that they might be considering a career change and be a good fit for a role. So make changes to your profile with regularity. Maybe it’s adding an extra couple of periods at the end. Like on job boards, the trick used to be you post a resume. You’d be at the top of a search result. But as time progressed, your resume would descend as more resumes came in on top of it. So the trick was, you’d skip a few lines at the end of your resume, and put a period there. And you’d come back the next day and delete it and consistently, you’d be moved to the top because these system would believe that this was a new resume. This is the LinkedIn equivalent.
Job Applications was the third thing. They look for profiles who’ve applied to any job recently. If someone has applied to a job, they’re likely in the market might like to hear about your role.
Fourth, they’ve shared a public resume. They’ll also show members who have consented to have their resume shared globally, and are likely interested in new opportunities.
So those are four signals that you have to pay attention to if you are actively looking for a role to feed the beast to feed the algorithm so it wants to refer you to recruiters who have purchased the LinkedIn Recruiter product and want to find talent with your background.
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