We recently shared the Open to New Opportunities option on your LinkedIn profile, which is a great new tool for job seekers and recruiters. Although this option is not yet available to all users (I still can’t access it in my Job Preferences Settings), it can now be used as a search filter in Recruiter. This means that anyone with a Recruiter account can search for profiles that have this option enabled!
Let’s take a look at how to use this filter within Recruiter.
Once you’re in Recruiter, you will begin a candidate search as you normally would, by inputting title, location and maybe even skills into your Search field:
In this example, I’m beginning a search for Engineers.
The recruiter will direct you to the Results list, where you can see profiles that match the criteria you entered. For this example, I only included people with Engineer titles as a requirement, so my results list is quite large (over 17 million). When you conduct these searches and use several filters to focus on the best candidates, you will get a much smaller results number.
On your results page, you’ll notice a new tab:
Out of my over 17 million results, 13,816 have activated their Open to New Opportunities setting in LinkedIn. That quickly and easily, I am able to identify the people who are most willing and interested in having employment conversations!
And in case you forget about this new tab, LinkedIn has even included a little reminder about this new feature, that shows up amidst your profile results:
An important note about confidentiality: We are very sensitive about confidentiality at Intero. We would never reveal profiles of individuals that are open to new opportunities, as that would violate their privacy. The profiles that you see listed in these images are not individuals that are open to new opportunities. They are simply profile results from a general search. LinkedIn has filtered them closer to the top of my list of 17+ million results because they are the closest to me, geographically.
Enjoy your searches with this new feature. Some very exciting and productive conversations are sure to result!