LinkedIn is a great social media. 161 million users in February
2012. Full of professional people. A great place to be for sourcers. (source: http://press.linkedin.com/about)
Building a network is a long process, and if you want to
play by the LinkedIn rule, you add onto your network only people you should
know.
I’ll write something on how to build a network soon.
LinkedIn search engine is good with plenty of possibility to
refine your search results. But, the number of result is directly linked to the
size of your network. So if you’ve got only 1 connection, you will not go far…
But, and here the trick, LinkedIn allows us to have a public
profile. That means that your profile (or part of it, you can decide) will
appear on Google, Yahoo!, Bing and so on.
More info on Public Profile: http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/83
So, even if you don’t have a linkedIn account, you can find
people thanks to Google.
If you try java
developer site:linkedin.com on the Google query field you will have 2.6
million + results. But part of those results aren’t relevant as, if we have a
closer look to LinkedIn address composition, you will have some uk.linkedin.com/jobs/
To search only on Public Profile, you will need to search for
java developer site:linkedin.com/in/
Thanks to Katharine Robinson, you can actually search as well with /pub/ instead of /in/.
Thanks to Katharine Robinson, you can actually search as well with /pub/ instead of /in/.
We can notice as well that LinkedIn use the country code as
a “pre-fix” on their address.
So you can refine with java
developer site:uk.linkedin.com/in/ that will
return only UK profile!