Wait. Wait. Wait. There are MORE Filters?!
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is – oh heck yes! Just wait until the end – you’ll be happy about it.
The Good News.
The good news is that quite a few filters under the “All Filters” umbrella are ones we’re already familiar with.
Don’t believe me – look for yourself.
- Right off the bat, you’ll see Sort by – not one we’ve covered by one that will be very familiar to you. I always leave this set to Most relevant but you do what works best for you. I’ve found that if I have my Date posted filter set correctly, then Most recent doesn’t really matter.
- We know Date posted. We’ve covered it a couple of times now.
- We’ve talked about why I feel you should avoid Experience level.
- I have a whole post one the benefit of using the Company filter (and a previous post outlining different companies from multiple angles).
- We know Job type.
- We know On-site/remote.
- We’ve talked about Easy Apply and how I feel that can be a pitfall for folks.
The Better News.
The other filters that we haven’t covered only better serve to include or exclude jobs from your list that are more inline with your non-negotiables and overall needs/wants.
So a quick crash course on the rest of these filters:
Job Collections
If you’re a premium member, one of the Job Collections you can see is the Top Applicant Jobs collections, which filters down to jobs that you should be a top applicant for based on your Education and LinkedIn profile skills. I’ll be covering Premium in a later post so I won’t get too in the weeds here. I’ll leave you with this – if you have premium, explore it. If you don’t, ignore it.
The other collections that you can explore are Green Jobs, those that are focused on environmental impact, and Hiring based on skills.
Now – to be completely honest – the Hiring based on skills is new and after some digging I haven’t been able to come up with a very cohesive answer as to what this collection does other than “focuses on what you can do other than what you have done” which, excuse my French, is bologna after looking through the first 5 jobs in my own search. In other words – use this category with a grain (or several pounds of salt).
Location
I will say this, there are some real benefits to being near a major branch of your company – as someone who is a long plane ride from the home-base of her own company, it makes it hard to attend company events and see coworkers which is a real bummer.
Industry
This filter gives you the option, much like the Company filter, of including or excluding large swathes of jobs at a time.
The key to being successful with this feature is knowing how LinkedIn names their industries – in other words, if at first you don’t succeed, look, look again.
For example, for those of you looking for positions within EdTech, you’ll be disappointed to see initially that “EdTech” isn’t a recognized industry within LinkedIn’s Industry filter. But not to worry – we can use other industries to catch what we would consider EdTech. Let’s try it out.
First, do a general search for your first choice career. I’m going to use Customer Success Manager as my example. At the time of running this search, I found 136,572 results for Customers Success Manager positions in the US with no additional filters.
Next, open the All filters section and go down to Industry. We already know that EdTech isn’t going to show up so instead try “E-learning” under +Add an industry and select E-learning from the drop down. I went from over 130K results to 568 in less than a second by only looking at CSM positions with E-learning providers.
Education Management is another filter that I would use to find EdTech related positions. Primary/Secondary Education and Higher Education are also filters that you can use. Know that you’ll find positions that can be more inline with teaching and administration positions but I would NOT discount those filters either.
Job Function
I can see this being particularly effective if you aren’t tied to a particular industry. Let me know if you end up being really successful using this filter – I’d love to spotlight how you used this filter!
Title
Under 10 applicants
The Under 10 applicants filter, when turned on, will only show you jobs that have, as you might have guessed, fewer than 10 applicants, according to LinkedIn’s count.
Now remember, in LinkedIn if someone has clicked on Apply or Easy Apply the system will count that person as having applied so keep in mind the metrics are a little shaky but either way this is a great way to uncover jobs that are potentially diamonds in the rough.
Bear in mind that this might mean a ton of things about the job and the company:
1. They’re tiny and no-one’s heard of them (frankly – those are the companies that I love, btw.)
2. It’s a terrible job that no-one wants to do.
3. The job got posted at a terrible time and was in competition with titan level jobs that everyone’s familiar with.
4. A ton of other reasons.
Either way – this job is looking for it’s forever candidate and it could be you – or not. But that’s up to you to decide and this filter can help you make that decision faster.
In your network
Remember how we talked about establishing a network of people who really know you and can speak to your talents and strengths through purposeful networking? That’s critical. Like beyond critical.
So here’s where that networking pays off. By toggling the In your network filter, you are only seeing jobs where you have a common connection at the company that you would be applying at.
First, that gives you an idea who at that company you should start networking with if this is a job or company that you really want to work at.
Second, that lets you know right away if this is a job that you might be able to secure a warm introduction for or a reference for.
For example, if I look at a position at company like PowerSchool, I know that I have several people that I worked with there in the past that would be willing to speak highly of me and my skill. Ergo I don’t need to cultivate relationships there – I already have them. Now with a company like National Geographic, I don’t have any connections that know me well at all so I would need to start really making inroads with people who could attest to my skills and would be willing to speak on my behalf.
Fair Chance Employer
Salary & Benefits
Unfortunately, the Salary toggle is pretty useless. You might find some jobs that provide salary information but the majority of the time, because the Salary filter will ONLY return results that show a salary at the range you’ve specified, you’ll be coming back with no results. Thanks for nothing job posters!
The Benefits filter is better and this is another area where you can let your non-negotiables help dictate some of what you look for. My only caution would be not to over click the benefits requirements. Some of the options for benefits are part of what a company offers but not always listed on their job posting and so you may be eliminating a perfectly good job by adding in a benefit that they themselves haven’t listed. I’d stick with the tried and trues (401(k), Insurance, Maternity Leave) just to make sure your bases are covered and then go to other job review sites to see if you can find information about the others if those aren’t mentioned in the job description.
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