Notice that LinkedIn shows that Elissa is a 3rd degree connection of mine, yet when I click on Elissa’s profile, LinkedIn then claims she is a 1st degree connection ( nice bug, yes Irina?).Īlso, look what happens when I try to look at someone I share a group with – if I click on this person: Next I performed a simple title search of “recruiter” within LinkedIn (free version) and I filtered the results for “3rd + Everyone Else” – here’s a screenshot of some of the results: I thought this whole experience was odd, so I decided to do some additional exploration. Of course, leave it to sourcers and recruiters to exploit this functionality to the point that it might prompt LinkedIn to change it. This was a sound assumption and solid user functionality for non-recruiters going to LinkedIn to search for friends and current/past colleagues. This is definitely different, because previously, if you searched for someone by their first and last name you could see their full profile even if you weren’t connected to them, presumably because LinkedIn assumed that if you had someone’s full name, you likely knew the person. I found her, but when I try to click on her profile, I get the same “You and this LinkedIn user don’t know anyone in common.” So then I tried searching for her by her first and last name. This is annoying, because if someone is trying to connect to me, shouldn’t I be able to at least look at their profile to determine whether or not I want to connect with them? When I click on her name, I get this message from LinkedIn: “You and this LinkedIn user don’t know anyone in common.” I tried to click on a few profiles to learn more about these people before accepting their invites. So it started when I was looking through my inbox to accept invitations to connect. Let me show you what I’ve discovered so far, and please share back any additional findings, or simply let me know that I am the only one affected. I have, and either I am encountering some serious and hopefully temporary errors, or LinkedIn may finally making serious moves to make it very difficult to find public LinkedIn profiles for free. Have you noticed anything different about LinkedIn recently – specifically with regard to viewing 3rd degree profiles, searching for headline phrases, searching by first and last name, and using Google and Bing to X-Ray search for public profiles?
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