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The Education Confusion on LinkedIn

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LinkedIn people search would work better if everyone had: one degree with the dates. The education dates and schools/majors are not connected. Searching by education dates also finds people with no dates. However, searching for a graduation date in the future in LinkedIn Recruiter reliably finds current students.

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How to Use LinkedIn to Source Top Candidates

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LinkedIn is the social network of a recruiter’s dreams, used by some 660 million professionals in 200 countries. But despite its many advantages, LinkedIn has one big downside when it comes to sourcing candidates: it’s crowded. LinkedIn is one of the top recruiting channels for the quality and retention of resulting hires.

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LinkedIn X-Ray No More. Now What?

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It no longer finds me and many others by the Headline, About, Experience , and Education. A search engine does not have a LinkedIn login, right? Nobody has data comparable to LinkedIn. Learn how to search on LinkedIn in our comprehensive class. Learn how to search on LinkedIn in our comprehensive class.

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LinkedIn Profiles Redacted, X-Ray Dying, Aggregators Will Suffer

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He was the first to notice a huge reduction in LinkedIn public profiles. The Headline, About section, Experience, and Education are gone. LinkedIn has notified Google, so there is no old indexed data for us to X-Ray. Why did LinkedIn do that? Not because some of us use LinkedIn X-Ray for sourcing.

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Hard to Hire: Third-Party Recruiting & the State of Talent Acquisition Report

The talent acquisition challenges of today are unparalleled: 90% of survey respondents feel that the current hiring market is more challenging now than in the past! Recruiting as we’ve known it is evolving - how are you keeping ahead of the competition?

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Sourcing Diverse Talent: Solving the Pain Points

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And one of the most pivotal factors in this journey revolves around sourcing diverse talent. And we’re not going to lie – sourcing diverse talent can take a bit of work and out-of-the-box thinking, but with a little effort (and guidance from SocialTalent!) Why is diversity sourcing so important? Where do you head first?

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Three Ways to X-Ray LinkedIn for Diversity

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You can search for Diversity candidates on LinkedIn using first names , pronouns, organizations, education (including Alumni search), group memberships, associations, employers (for veterans), and other ways. X-Raying on Google can complement your sourcing process. Google can search for emojis ; LinkedIn ignores them.

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