Comments on: Optimizing your LinkedIn Search Experience

By: Jurjen de Vries

Jurjen de Vries — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:36:33 +0000

I’ve a feature request for saved searches, the ability to choose any of my e-mail adresses related with my LinkedIn account. Thanks.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:19:46 +0000

Regarding Job dates in the Profile:

In order to combat growing age discrimination by recruiters and company HR folks job search professionals are helping job seekers craft resumes that downplay/eliminate employment “From-To” dates. The theory is such resumes will then survive initial eliminations and level the interview playing field. (Getting past company on-line application forms is a whole ‘nother discussion).

Anyway – since Linkedin’s app requires the dates for past experience entries this discourages people from either using Linkedin at all, or making clumsy alterations/deletions of past experience entries.

How about let’s make the Experience dates optional, as those for Education now are?

Thanks…BC

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By: Alain Kaufmann

Alain Kaufmann — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:25:21 +0000

Ok,
I have understood why your search engine always answer “0 people” when I request “people from my network”. It is because it now only search until 2 steps connection (instead of 3 before). As the probability that I share a known people, not yet on LinkedIn, with a direct connection is close to zero, this means that the search engine is no more usable to increase my network. And, by the way, LINKEDIN IS MUCH LESS INTERESTING.

By: Jim Durbin

Jim Durbin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:04:02 +0000

I noticed that my profile, and that of other connections of mine, no longer have the “greater st louis area” in geography.

In my profile, my zip code is listed, but in my public profile, it just says, “United States.”

This happened since the search was changed, and a search for my name in my zip code no longer turns my name. I have to remove the zip code to make it work.

Something I’m missing in the profile settings?

By: Mario Sundar

Mario Sundar — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:32:27 +0000

@Amani,

Currently there’s an Email option that you can set up. Thanks for your feedback on the RSS option. Will pass this on to the Search team.

By: Amani Roberts

Amani Roberts — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:05:11 +0000

I like the new changes.

Unless I missed it, is there a way to add RSS option to searches. So if you are searching for jobs, you can just set up your search once, click on the RSS option , and get notified everytime something new in your search parameters is posted?

Excuse this question if I missed it. :)

Thanks,
Amani

By: Michael Dreimiller

Michael Dreimiller — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:15:23 +0000

I have a routine of searching my network for new people from my local area. I do that search a couple of times a week. With the old search I would set “Location” to “In Or Near” to my zip code and I would limit the search to my network and set “Joined” to so “Since my last login”. I always found new people with that search.

However, when I’ve tried using the new People Search beta with the same exact settings there are never any new people found yet I if I then opted out of the new People Search beta and switched back to the old search it would find people that matched those same exact criteria. I tried it again a couple of days ago and it still returned no results but I no longer see the link for opting out of the new search so apparently it’s no longer in beta and I’m stuck with the new search that doesn’t find what I’m looking for.

Is the new People Search broken? If not, what is different about it that is causing it to always fail to find anyone that meets my criteria?

By: Tim Miner

Tim Miner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:44:31 +0000

Glad to hear, see and experience that you take the inputs from the user community seriously and act upon them. Great job on the search redesign. Please don’t lose that connectedness with us, the users!