#HootTip: How to Search for Jobs in LinkedIn with #HootSuite
Looking for work or changing careers is both exciting and time consuming. HootSuite has recognized this and is here to help. Our Certified Developer status with LinkedIn gives you the ability to use LinkedIn to comb the social network for job opportunities.
To help get you acquainted with the Dashboard’s functionality, or just give you a refresher, we have a new #HootTip all about a handy HootSuite feature.
Using LinkedIn to Search for Jobs
LinkedIn is a powerful social network as well as an amazing place to find career opportunities. Looking through job listings – even online – can take up a lot of time. To streamline your career seeking efforts, HootSuite has added a “Job Search” feature. Be prepared to set up a whole new stream of opportunities.
Here’s How
- Once you’ve added your LinkedIn network, go to your profile tab, and click “+ Add Stream”.
- Next, click “LinkedIn” in the sidebar and select the “Job Search”.
- From here, select the LinkedIn profile you want search for, enter in a search query, and press “Add Stream”.
- This will create a stream with a list of jobs that have the keyword you typed in!
Like many updates, we’ve added these handy features based on your helpful feedback. What’s your next idea? Also keep an eye out for a new #HootTip each week – they’re short, sweet and re-Tweetable so you can share your HootSuite expertise with your friends and followers.
Nice tool if you can specify location/region. I’m only interested in jobs in the Netherlands. Is this also possible?
Hi Ans,
Great question! This isn’t available currently but suggest it on our Feedback Channel. There users can suggest and vote up ideas, thoughts, and feature requests.
I had the same problem, until I figured I should use a Dutch word for the search query. Apparently job postings also contain tags, because when I’m looking for “grafisch”, I’m finding front-end web development jobs (perfect for me!) without “grafisch” in the title. Maybe that’ll help you out?
Nice tool thanks for the share
My son is looking for a job. I am going to share this with him. It can’t hurt right?
Good advice, thanks for sharing. We currently only use HootSuite for Twitter, but I’m going to try out LinkedIn on there as well I reckon. Thanks!
I have to say that HootSuite’s job search feature is an amazing time saver, and this is coming from a guy that has spent a lot of time this year looking online for job opportunities. A friend told me about it and I have used it ever since. Using Linkedin to create a new stream full of open jobs is very handy. I have spend countless hours improving my resume, searching for jobs, etc., and this feature has really helped me to free up some time. Thank you!
Hi James,
Thank you! Glad to see the dashboard helping you with your search.
This is a fantastic tip. I use it slightly differently. I provide sales consulting and training and by putting the search “sales manager south africa” I get to see which companies may need a temporary sales manager solution whilst they are trying to find a permanent sales manager. And, it shows me that there is probably a sales team involved to which I can offer my training services to. Thanks HooteSuite!
Good Work ! i Agree in have spend countless hours improving my resume, searching for jobs
Awesome, Hootsuite never cease to amaze me. I’ll need to try this!
Not nearly indepth enough. Want to know how I can limit the search results to show only jobs that have keywords in the job title. What’s the parameter used for the job title?
Hi Raegan,
Thanks for the feedback. Our support owls are standing by to help. Bring your question to them at http://hootsuite.com/help.
-JB
I can’t understand how others think this is useful. It’s half the equation – that is, it’s great for sorting for a specific job…but 95% (or more) of the jobs will be too far to consider. Am I mis-using this?
Thanks
I’m in agreement that the LinkedIn job search tool leaves a lot wanting. I can’t seem to get ANY appropriate results. Hootsuite’s Twitter search tool works so much better for me for job search. I add a new stream with some job search terms and presto, a laundry list of relevant openings appears. I’ll actually be recommending it to a group of soon-to-be grads at a social media and job search workshop I’m conducting.
This works fine. However, how do I remove or edit a stream? I need to change the keyword. And speaking of keywords, may I add more than one keyword, say, separated by commas?
Haven’t actually tried this yet, but the instructions here should elaborate on constructing the actual query, as obviously this is what ultimately drives your end results, i.e. these instructions outline a query for “keyword” (singular) – are multiple keywords (plural) not allowed? if you can use multiple keywords in the query, how do you delineate them – separate by commas? a space? within quotes?
Looking forward to giving this a try; in theory, quite useful!
Thanks for developing this feature Owls. I am using HS to learn about job opportunities in the market. I created a hestream and added job search keywords to get tweets about opportunities in my geo-zone. I believe this new feature will help a lot especially if it is integrated with Twitter, Freshgigs, Monster, Talent Exchange and Workopolis… Gr8 Hat Owls!
wud be also gr8 if the”Apply” feature is added as resumes are saved in the linkedin database. best,
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Great tool! Please add filter per region/language.