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1. Master Search with Recruiter Lite
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2. 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

4. 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

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

9. • 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:

10. • 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:

11. • 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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. 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!

20. Strategic searches may reveal:
§ Required skills vs. “Nice-to-haves”
§ Insight into new roles
§ Patterns that indicate “adaptable
hires”
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21. 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

22. Advanced Search Feature Tips

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Recruiter Lite has over 15 different search filters

24. And LinkedIn supports
Boolean searches.

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

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

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

28. 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

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

30. 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.

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

32. 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.

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

34. 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.

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

36. 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!

38. 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

40. Helpful Resources

41. 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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