LinkedIn Advanced People Searches are helpful in building your LinkedIn Network to support your Personal Brand, and are also helpful in recruiting for a job openings, looking for sales leads, looking for a vendors, researching competitors, and networking to support your Job Search.
- To build your network, you can use the “Company” Advanced LinkedIn Search field to search for people who work(ed) for:
- Companies you’ve worked for in the past
- Companies that were vendors you used in the past
- Companies that were your company’s customers
- Companies that were your competitors
- You can also build your network by using the “School” Advanced LinkedIn Search field to search for people who:
- Attended schools or universities you attended
- Taught at schools or universities you attended
- For your Job Search, you can use LinkedIn Advanced People Searches:
- To look for connections in a company you are targeting or have an interview with using a “Company” Advanced Search.
- To find contacts within your industry to notify that you are in a job search, you can do an “Industry” Advanced Search.
- You might also consider doing an Advanced Search within a industry-related “Group” you are a member of to find people to network with.
- You can also use the “Location” field to narrow your Advanced searches.