If someone selects the “ None off” setting for their public profile, their LinkedIn profile will not be published to the web and thus cannot be found via Internet search engines. There are, however, some people who have taken the time to make changes to their LinkedIn profile settings that make them unfindable using an Internet Search engine. What is common knowledge to those of us in the recruiting profession isn’t common knowledge to those who are not. Sourcers and recruiters know that they can effectively search for and view public LinkedIn profiles using any one of the major Internet search engines, even without a LinkedIn account. However, I have found that most non-recruiters #1 don’t give much thought to their public profile settings, #2 don’t really understand exactly what “publishing their profile to the web” actually means and its implications, and #3 don’t change their settings from default.
#OPEN LINKEDIN WITH INCOGNITO FULL#
If you are a sourcer or a recruiter, you not only understand what it means to publish your LinkedIn profile to the web, you’re happy to display your full profile view. While you may be familiar with these settings, you would be surprised how many people are not, and the implications of changing them.īy default, and as LinkedIn recommends, LinkedIn profiles are published to the web in “Full View.” Here is where a person can actually take some control over what is shown in publicly. Where you can control the visibility of your profile is actually under “Public Profile” in your Profile Settings. When you click on your LinkedIn account settings, if you take a look at the “Privacy” settings, you can see that none of the privacy settings actually have anything to do with the visibility of your own profile to others. However, there are things a person can do to be very difficult to find and identify.Īdditionally, there are some people on LinkedIn that you cannot specifically search for and identify, regardless of the level of your LinkedIn account (yes, even the mighty LI Recruiter). I have, and as far as I can tell, there isn’t a way to actually configure a LinkedIn profile/account to be private. While many people are aware that this kind of search result is actually just representative of an “out of network” profile, have you ever wondered if truly “private” profiles exist? No matter how large your LinkedIn network is, without the benefit of searching LinkedIn with a LinkedIn Recruiter account, you will inevitably come across search results with “Private” displayed where the name of the person should be.
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