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Master Search with Recruiter Lite
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Daily Recruiter Workflow
There are four main things you can do with Recruiter Lite:
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Find Contact Organize Nurture
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Find Contact Organize Nurture
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Let’s drill into the first one – FINDING candidates

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Searching strategically
with Recruiter Lite

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Before you draft the job description and
start sourcing candidates…
run a strategic search.

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Before you draft the job description and
start sourcing candidates…
run a strategic search.
How?

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1. Put in your criteria (e.g. skills, years of
experience, level, industry, location)
2. Run a search

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• What does a successful candidate look like?
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As you go through your search results,
ask yourself questions like:

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• What does a successful candidate look like?
• Should you consider anything else?
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As you go through your search results,
ask yourself questions like:

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• What does a successful candidate look like?
• Should you consider anything else?
• Are you leaving talent on the table?
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As you go through your search results,
ask yourself questions like:

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• What does a successful candidate look like?
• Should you consider anything else?
• Are you leaving talent on the table?
• Are your expectations realistic?
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As you go through your search results,
ask yourself questions like:

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Imagine you need to hire a
Marketing Manager
ü Lives in the Boston area
ü Has B2B experience
ü Familiar with SQL and Stata

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You might run a search for:
Boston B2B marketer with SQL
and Stata experience
But you’ll only get 5 results

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What if you for expand your
search outside the Boston area?

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What if you for expand your
search outside the Boston area?
Now, you’ll get 160 results

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What if you for expand your
search outside the Boston area?
Now, you’ll get 160 results
That’s 30x more candidates!

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What if you expand your search to
“adaptable hires” who have
experience, but not in SQL and Stata?

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What if you expand your search to
“adaptable hires” who have
experience, but not in SQL and Stata?
Now, you’ll get 630 results

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What if you expand your search to
“adaptable hires” who have
experience, but not in SQL and Stata?
Now, you’ll get 630 results
That’s 125x more candidates!

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Strategic searches may reveal:
§ Required skills vs. “Nice-to-haves”
§ Insight into new roles
§ Patterns that indicate “adaptable
hires”
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In fact, 37%
of small to
medium-sized
businesses have
considered
“adaptable hires”
And 8 in 10 small businesses are glad they hired adaptable hires

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Advanced Search Feature Tips

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Recruiter Lite has over 15 different search filters

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And LinkedIn supports
Boolean searches.

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And LinkedIn supports
Boolean searches.
What are those, you ask?

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And LinkedIn supports
Boolean searches.
What are those, you ask?
Let’s dive in.

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Boolean searches support the following:
AND, OR, NOT, ( ), “”
Check this out for a more explanation on Boolean:
http://lnkd.in/boolean

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Let’s imagine we’re planning the
perfect vacation getaway
And we care about ocean views, nightlife, and great food
OCEAN
VIEW
NIGHT-
LIFE
GREAT
FOOD

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If we search “Ocean view” AND “Nightlife”
GREAT
FOOD
OCEAN
VIEW
NIGHT-
LIFE

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If we search “Ocean view” AND “Nightlife”
We’ll get results like Los Angeles and Miami,
Where we can get both ocean views and nightlife.

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If we search “Ocean view” NOT “Nightlife”
GREAT
FOOD
OCEAN
VIEW
NIGHT-
LIFE

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If we search “Ocean view” NOT “Nightlife”
We’ll get results like Big Sur, CA and the Oregon Coast
where we can get ocean views but not nightlife.

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If we search “Ocean view” OR “Nightlife”
GREAT
FOOD
OCEAN
VIEW
NIGHT-
LIFE

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If we search “Ocean view” OR “Nightlife”
We’ll get results like Las Vegas and the Oregon Coast
where we can get either ocean views or nightlife.

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If we search
“Ocean View” AND (“Nightlife” OR “Great Food)
GREAT
FOOD
OCEAN
VIEW
NIGHT-
LIFE

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If we search
“Ocean View” AND (“Nightlife” OR “Great Food)
We’ll get results like Nice and Miami
where we can get either nightlife or great good,
and definitely ocean views.

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Remember to save your important searches!

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So you receive alerts when new
candidates appear
Delivered
to your
inbox
All new
profiles that
match your
criteria

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And access your saved searches and
history anytime

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Helpful Resources

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Industry Talent Pool Reports
ü Architectural design
ü Brand strategy
ü Corporate finance
ü Corporate law
ü Ecology & environment
ü Java development
ü Non-profit fundraising
ü Many more!
http://lnkd.in/talent-reports
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Conduct a search using advanced facets or
Booleans
Save that search to get automatic updates
Join the Hiring with LinkedIn Recruiter Lite
group at http://lnkd.in/RLite_group
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Your challenge
… should you choose to accept it

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Thank you!