LinkedIn has purposefully broken your search

Imagine this.

You sit down to search for a candidate.

You create, what you think, is the best search that has ever been seen.

You press "search".

Right now your feeling quite good about yourself.

Confident your about to find the best unicorn that has ever been seen.

The results are in.

Your in shock.

What is this rubbish?

Why are there loads of irrelevant people appearing?

You look at your search again but are none the wiser.

Let me tell you a little secret ...

LinkedIn just added semantic suggestion to their platform (job title + keyword field) and told NO ONE!

Simply this means, they are now looking at the words you have put in and then going "Oooo I think they might like this one too. Oooo and this one".

And so it goes on.

Sounds cool right?

But there is a risk.

It see the word and gives a suggestion but does not have the full context of the use of the word e.g. acronym in one industry may not mean the same in another.

How to hack this craziness?Take your search and put quotations marks around it.

Yes even single words!I know right... breaking tradition of only using quotation marks around multiple words.

By doing this you are telling the platform exactly what you want to see and it will only return you that.

Bye bye blind semantic suggestion.

Hello control.

Try it and let me know how you get on!

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PS this rule also works on job boards, social media platforms etc

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