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Emojis are widely used across the internet nowadays. We use them to lighten up a message, express a sentiment or indicate a certain activity.
What a lot of people don’t know is that you can use them to find people online.
In recruitment, using emojis in your search for candidates can be a powerful way to create very targeted searches for niche talent pools or to find underrepresented candidates.
Using emojis in an X-ray using Google is the easiest way to source based on Emojis.
And the funny thing is that it actually works!
Pick any category below and try the out examples.
Example emoji searches
Engineers
Female engineers
site:linkedin.com/in 👩💻 engineer
site:linkedin.com/in 👩🏼💻 engineer
Automation experts
Scientists
site:linkedin.com/in (👨🔬 OR 👨🏻🔬 OR 👨🏼🔬 OR 👨🏿🔬)
site:linkedin.com/in (👨🔬 OR 👨🏻🔬 OR 👨🏼🔬 OR 👨🏿🔬 OR 👩🏾🔬 OR 👩🏻🔬 OR 👩🏽🔬 OR 👩🔬)
Medical professionals
Marketing professionals
Legal professionals
People in agriculture
People in beauty
People in construction
Finding contact details with emojis
You can combine your search keywords with contact emojis to find profiles that have their contact details listed. Try the below examples, obviously you can replace "sales executive" with your own keywords.
site:linkedin.com/in "sales executive" 📞
site:linkedin.com/in "sales executive" ☎️
site:linkedin.com/in "sales executive" (☎️ OR 📞)
site:linkedin.com/in "sales executive" 📩
site:linkedin.com/in "sales executive" 📨
site:linkedin.com/in "sales executive" 📧
site:linkedin.com/in "sales executive" (📩 OR 📨 OR 📧)
site:linkedin.com/in "sales executive" (📩 OR 📨 OR 📧 OR ☎️ OR 📞)
You can basically create any combination that you would expect people to use in their profiles. The only thing you need is the right Emoji (and an internet connection 😉).
Let your Emojination run wild
Not sure which emojis to use? This is our favourite source for emojis:
Final tips
- If you want to make these searches more targeted you can read how to do that in these two guides: The practical guide to X-raying LinkedIn in 2021 and One string to boole them all
- For icons displaying people, take into account that different skin tones can be used which you can find on Get Emoji
- You can also use platforms other than LinkedIn to search with emojis, for example on Kaggle: site:kaggle.com "joined * * ago" 👩🏼💻 — here are the best LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives and how to search them
- Take into account that in your search results sometimes emojis are translated to actual text, so you can find the name of the emoji represented on the profile instead of the emoji itself
Have fun finding people!
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