![]() ![]() Let’s look for people who currently work for Lockheed Martin, have a current title of manager, and live within 25 miles of 20001:Ĭcompany:lockheed ctitle:manager country:”united states” zip:20001 radius:25 In this case, when picking 30, I was trying to trick LinkedIn – it chose 25 instead of 35. If you try and use a different number, like 30, LinkedIn will produce results using the closest “valid” radius value. Testing other zip codes did not produce consistent results for me to try and guess the “hidden” radius value if you don’t enter one.Īlso – it appears you can only choose the radius values of 10, 25, 35, 50, 75, and 100 miles when using the radius: operator. Not sure exactly what LinkedIn is doing there, because a 35 mile radius produces about 777,000 results, and a 50 mile radius produces about 877,000 results. If you don’t enter a radius: value, the search will still work – you’ll get a little over 922,000 results. When you hit “Search,” you’ll get nearly 650,000 results of people on LinkedIn who live within 25 miles from the zip code of 20001. When using LinkedIn’s advanced operators, you enter them directly into the “Search People” bar at the top right of LinkedIn: For example, if you were searching for people in a 25 mile radius of Washington, DC, you could create a search like this:Ĭountry:”united states” zip:20001 radius:25 You’ll notice on the chart of operators that the zip: and radius: operators have dependencies – zip: is dependent on country:, and radius: is dependent on country: and zip. With the new search function inputting country: zip: and radius: is no longer acceptable.”Īfter not accepting this answer and continuing to tweak syntax, I am very happy to announce that you actually CAN accomplish zip code radius search using LinkedIn’s advanced operators. ![]() These fields are provided to help narrow the search and make the process easier to understand. When I first experimented with the syntax for using the advanced operators for zip code radius searching, I ran into some problems and I contacted LinkedIn’s technical support for advice on how to make them work properly.Īfter 5 email exchanges (including links and screenshots and VERY direct/specific questions) that were comical to say the least (ignoring my question and simply telling me to use the advanced search interface, as well as not being aware of the advanced operators until I sent a screenshot), the technical support rep from LinkedIn finally concluded this: “The operators you are speaking of in our advanced people search are now provided for you in the drop down fields. You can see that you can “hand code” searches using the above advanced operators and control most of the search fields/parameters that are found on the advanced search page interface, such as current company, past company, title, current title, past title, zip code radius, company, school, industry, interested in, and when people joined LinkedIn: I was exploring LinkedIn’s site the other day and came across a chart buried at the bottom of the LinkedIn Learning Center page, and I was intrigued by the possibility of “hand coding” searches by entering LinkedIn’s advanced search operators directly into the “people search” search bar. I was specifically excited to see more options for location searching (10 mile – 100 mile radius), and the ability to search for current and/or past employers. LinkedIn has made some great changes to their advanced search interface recently, giving users the ability to take more control over the precision of their searches. Once more you will be able to harness LinkedIn’s search fields by hand coding your search strings and bypassing the search interface/fields. Although LinkedIn’s advanced operators ceased to work properly for a period of a few months earlier this year, I am very happy to report that they are working again. ![]()
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