How to Search on LinkedIn and the entire LinkedIn Database with a Google Advanced Search
Do you need to do a search on LinkedIn beyond people in your network and somewhere else in the entire LinkedIn database?
Are you frustrated that you cannot see a person’s name or click on their link in LinkedIn but want to see who else you can find for your purpose?
Do you want to look for:
- potential job candidates
- potential referrers – who you can network with and ask for referrals
- potential mentors or mentees
- potential centres of influence who can make recommendations
- long lost friends, family members, colleagues, students, alumni etc
- enterprises that are located near you so that you can shop yourself in and work close to home
- subject matter experts or academics in Australia or overseas around your research interests
- anyone with keywords you choose!
Transcript
Hi there, my name is Sue Ellson and I’m an Independent LinkedIn Specialist and today I’d like to show you how to do a search on LinkedIn in your own network, but also how to search the entire LinkedIn database with a Google Advanced Search.
So, let’s assume we’re doing some networking and you’re looking to speak to somebody who is a Senior Project Manager in Construction.
Now, when you do this search result, it doesn’t bring up your first level connections unless you press here first. It automatically brings up your second level connections. So if we click on People, we will then get some additional Filters. But what you’ll see is the Senior Project Manager keywords are being found in the Headline directly underneath the name and then in Current Job Titles and then in Past Job Titles.
And if we keep scrolling long enough, it will be in other sections of the LinkedIn profile. So most likely in the Summary section or Licenses and Certifications. So there we go. We can see Summary there and if we kept scrolling, we’d see those other sections. But what we can also choose is All Filters and then we could say I want to choose Melbourne, Victoria, and one of their current companies, etc. or a past company. They’ve worked for LendLease and then I can show results.
But again, this is going to be based on who I am already connected to and the information is only partly visible. You can see there’s only part of a surname visible here and it’s probably going to cut out at some point as well.
Now, your alternative, if you’re not well as well connected as I am to people in Melbourne, is you can do something called a Google Advanced Search.
So, you just go to Google.com and type in Google Advanced Search and choose that from the top box and then what you would do is type in all of these uh keywords that you want to be found for. So, I’m going to say “senior project manager” and the word “construction” and the word “Melbourne” and the company name “LendLease.”
So, I know a lot of people don’t fill in their LinkedIn Profile properly, but at least this way these words will be somewhere on the person’s LinkedIn Profile and regardless of whether I’m connected to them or not, if I go here and choose the website linkedin.com and choose Advanced Search, these people will come up.
Now, this is for a job, so that’s not going to be relevant, but this is a person. So, I can right click, Open in a New Tab. Right click, Open in a New Tab. Right click, Open a New Tab, and so on and so forth and then I can visit each one, find out when they join LinkedIn.
So, that’s there and then look at their Profile and decide whether I would like to reach out to them, connect, message, whatever. And once I’ve finished dealing with that one, I would close that tab and move on to the next person. and the next person and so on and it’s a really fast and easy way to network using um either LinkedIn directly through your connections or via a Google Advanced Search where you put whatever words you want to be found and choose linkedin.com and choose Advanced Search. Thanks and bye for now.
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SEARCHING LINKEDIN // 🔎One of the most powerful aspects of LinkedIn is the ability to look for and find specific people or enterprises so that you can network and gain referrals for either your career, business or advocacy goals.
However, in most cases, the search within LinkedIn focuses on keywords in particular fields, most notably the headline underneath your name or the current and past job titles or the description on a Company Page.
🤔You also have a limited number of searches before you reach ‘commercial use’ and you are limited to people within the first and second level connections of your own network on LinkedIn.
⭐However, there is a workaround!⭐
💖You can do a Google Advanced Search to your heart’s content!💖
You can focus on words that have been added on LinkedIn and are indexed in Google (which is gold because most people do not fill in their LinkedIn Profile in detail but if the essential words are there somewhere, you may be able to find them!)
This is fantastic if you want to find:
☑️ potential job candidates
☑️ potential referrers – who you can network with and ask for referrals
☑️ potential mentors or mentees
☑️ potential centres of influence who can make recommendations
☑️ long lost friends, family members, colleagues, students, alumni etc
☑️ enterprises that are located near you so that you can shop yourself in and work close to home
☑️ subject matter experts or academics in Australia or overseas around your research interests
☑️ anyone with keywords you choose!
And I share how to do this online at https://sueellson.com/blog/how-to-search-on-linkedin-and-the-entire-linkedin-database-with-a-google-advanced-search/
Happy searching! 🔎
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