User guide

What is Recruitem for?

Recruitem is a tool to easily find candidates on LinkedIn with the right skills to fill your open vacancies. This practice is sometimes called 'LinkedIn X-Ray'.

How do I use Recruitem?

Enter your search (no field is mandatory), hit Find your people then Open in Google.

Country: Select one of 115 countries you'd like to search for candidates.
Job title: The job title you are Recruitemg for. Tick Show similar jobs to see candidates with similar titles.
Location or keywords to include: The locations and skills of the candidates you need. Separate search terms with commas, e.g. san francisco, new york, php, web developer.
Keywords to exclude: Keywords to narrow your search. For example to find a web developer specialising in open source, enter microsoft, oracle.
Education: Choose either Degree, Masters Degree or Doctoral Degree. Synonyms are automatically included e.g. Doctoral Degree will find candidates with PHDs.
Add results from Xing and Viadeo: XING and Viadeo are the most popular professional networks for German and French speakers respectively. Searching them is Beta for now. For best results be logged out of XING and in to Viadeo.

Hopefully the tool is easy to use, if not questions and suggestions to @CleverBiscuit or hello@cleverbiscuit.com are welcome!

How do I get the most out of it?

Make sure that you search with the right level of detail. In countries where LinkedIn is more popular (e.g. U.S. and UK) specific is better, whereas searches in countries with fewer LinkedIn users should be broader. The more comma separated search phrases you enter the fewer and more accurate your results.

When you find suitable candidates - send them an InMail, or if you're not a 3^rd degree connection send them a Connection Invitation describing who you are and why you want to connect with them. It's best to not select the 'I don't know this person' radio box. Please don't use this tool to annoy people!

Often when logged in LinkedIn will hide the full detail of a profile. To see it open the same profile in a new browser (one not logged in to LinkedIn, or use the tool in your browser's 'Incognito' / 'Privacy' mode). Instructions in;

Where does the data come from?

The profiles are publicly available records that have been indexed by Google. At the moment the tool works with 115 countries, if you'd like to see more drop us a line.

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