By By Arnie Fertig
In this article, we'll explore not only the Job Board aspect of LinkedIn, but also three other ways you can find position listings that are hidden in plain sight.
Finding Jobs on LinkedIn
LinkedIn offers many ways to find job postings.
1. LinkedIn's Job Board
"Jobs," one of LinkedIn's top menu items, provides you multiple ways to access the multitude of ads that employers and recruiters pay LinkedIn to
feature, as well as others that the site aggregates from throughout the internet.
Making things real simple, the site leads you through a process whereby you can create your own profile of what job you are seeking based on location, industry, and more. Of course, you can change your profile at will, but however it is set will determine what ads LinkedIn will feed you.
After you have clicked on the "Jobs" link in the menu at the top of most LinkedIn pages, you can search through the jobs by title, keyword, or company (employer) and location.
Once you have typed in a query and clicked the "Search" button, pay attention to the options LinkedIn offers you in the right column of the results page. You can focus the search results on
specific employers (a.k.a. "Company") and locations. LinkedIn also offers additional interesting filters like the date the job was posted (ranging from the last 24 hours to the default "any time"), experience level (from entry level to executive), to job function which varies depending on your original search.
It's a good idea to start with a fairly broad search with a limited number of parameters, and then add or
filter the results (i.e. jobs posted this week for specific employers) until you get a reasonable number of positions you can fruitfully examine.
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