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The Best LinkedIn Job Search Hack

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The Best LinkedIn Job Search Hack

Find More Jobs Than LinkedIn Shows You, In Seconds

Here’s a LinkedIn tip that might be the single biggest time-saver you’ll ever use in your job search – and you won’t even need to visit LinkedIn to use it.

LinkedIn is fantastic for job search. It’s the #1 place to find professional roles across industries.

But here’s what LinkedIn won’t tell you: there are more jobs on a company website than ever make it to LInkedIn. The reason: posting on LinkedIn is expensive, so companies often post only a fraction of their openings there.

Good news: I’ve got the simple hack to find them all.

And no, I won’t make you go to dozens of company Careers pages to do it.


 

Why This Trick Is a Game-Changer

With a single Google search, you can instantly:

  • See more recently posted, target jobs than you could find on LinkedIn.

  • Get a comprehensive view of active openings across hundreds of top companies that use the most popular Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).

  • Save massive time – no more hopping from site to site, or missing out on jobs you won’t see on LinkedIn.

This isn’t just useful; it’s mind-blowing for anyone serious about their job search.


 

How It Works

Almost every major company uses ATS to manage hiring and post jobs to their Careers pages. Most ATS use consistent URL patterns for their customers’ career pages, so a single Google search can fetch jobs from all their customers. By targeting these ATS domains in a single Google search, you can see more active listings than most LinkedIn users ever will.

Bingo!


 

Here’s How

This is the trick: cut-and-paste this search text directly into Google to return jobs from companies using the 25 most popular ATS:

VP Product Marketing Los Angeles after:2025-08-27 site:myworkdayjobs.com OR site:boards.greenhouse.io OR site:jobs.lever.co OR site:careers.smartrecruiters.com OR site:jobs.smartrecruiters.com OR site:workable.com OR site:icims.com OR site:taleo.net OR site:recruiting.adp.com OR site:jobs.jobvite.com OR site:clearcompany.com OR site:pageuppeople.com OR site:phenompeople.com OR site:jobscore.com OR site:breezy.hr OR site:ashbyhq.com OR site:pinpointhq.com OR site:recruitee.com OR site:ceipal.com OR site:manatal.com OR site:snaphunt.com OR site:eightfold.ai OR site:yello.co OR site:vivahr.com OR site:*.successfactors.com


 

Do these simple customizations for the jobs you’re targeting:

  1. Job Title: Replace VP Product Marketing with your target title.

  2. Location: Replace Los Angeles with your city, or leave blank for nationwide.

  3. Recency: Replace after:2025-08-27 with the date cutoff you want (e.g., 30 days ago).

If you want to get extra fancy, you can add these ‘extra credit’ operators to sharpen the results even further:

  • Exclusions: e.g. -intern -contract to eliminate certain terms from your search results

  • Search multiple titles: e.g. VP Product Marketing OR Director Product Marketing

  • Add synonyms to ask Google to return matches to similar terms: e.g. ~manager for a variety of job titles

As with any Google search, you may find no results. This means the search you’ve chosen is too specific. When this happens, selectively alter or remove terms from your search to get search results.

This trick is fast, comprehensive, and incredibly simple. You’ll save hours of work while getting the most complete, up-to-date view of the jobs you care about.