Sometimes, it’s better to run a search twice rather than expand it too much – because you’ll never have the time or energy to review hundreds of profiles in one sitting. In this case you will not use spaces between words:īe careful not to overuse the OR operator. In Google, you can use the OR operator but you can also use |. In this case you will write down your search string as: By combining the keywords with OR, you’ll find all of the profiles with “developer” in them and all of the profiles with “programista” in them. That’s exactly when you want to use the OR operator. On the other hand, if their profile is in Polish, you’d use “programista”. If they work in an international environment their profile is probably in English, so you would use “developer” as a keyword. Let’s imagine you’re looking for a Java developer who speaks Polish. You will get the opposite result with the OR operator, which will allow to include more profiles in your results. So when you’re sourcing on LinkedIn, you’ll use: In Google space replaced the regular spelling of the AND operator.

But remember, it will not work when sourcing on… Google! Since Boolean operators aren’t necessarily used by all of the search engine’s user, Google made things even easier for us.

AND is one of the three basic operators we use and will work in most databases.

Google boolean search for linkedin