The more passive you are as it relates to searching for a job on LinkedIn, the more LinkedIn relies on its own intelligence to serve up job content. Of course, you can also set up job alerts, which gives you more control over what you see. On your LinkedIn homepage, you'll often see a section on the right called 'Jobs you might be interested in.' When you search for jobs on LinkedIn by conducting a keyword search and selecting the 'jobs' tab, your content is ranked, showing the jobs LinkedIn 'thinks' are the closest match based on a number of factors other than your search terms. Whether you are doing a search or just cruising your feed, LinkedIn is making decisions about the job-related content it shows you. I'll also link to pages on LinkedIn that explain how to do things like sign up for job alerts and change your preferences.īut first, before we get into the HOW, let's cover the WHAT let’s define what we are talking about. You might wonder how LinkedIn decides WHICH jobs to show you. If you have searched for jobs or seen recommended jobs on your feed, you know that there is some logic involved with what you are seeing. In this post, we'll examine the LinkedIn job recommendation engine.

LinkedIn will never tell us exactly how their algorithms work, but we do know a bit about some of the factors that come into play when LinkedIn serves up content.

We don't think it's magic, but it is (mostly) a secret. Sometimes it feels like LinkedIn has some secret magic going on behind the scenes that impacts what you see when you log in.

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