Krista Bradford is CEO of the retained executive search firm The Good Search, which is Powered by Intellerati, the firm's executive search research lab and AI incubator. An Emmy Award-winning television journalist and investigative reporter, Ms. Bradford now pursues truth, justice, and great talent in the executive suite.
LinkedIn Recruiter is a powerful starting point for executive search. It is not a finish line. Disorganized data, incomplete profiles, unreliable filters, and InMail limitations have always made senior-level sourcing harder than LinkedIn’s pitch suggests.…
A Lesson in Investigative Research and the Power of Data An investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution proved something that no interview, no anecdote, and no amount of firsthand testimony had been able to establish:…
Candidate-provided references are selected to impress, not to inform. Pre-reference checks reach beyond the approved list to find people who worked alongside a candidate and can speak candidly — before the candidate knows they are…
The push to build representative leadership teams has become one of the most politically complex talent challenges of this decade. The language around it has changed dramatically. The need has not. When a global media…
Target company org charts make executive recruiting ridiculously easy. You stop wasting time and missing candidates on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn intentionally limits what you can see without a higher-tier subscription. But experienced sourcers know that hidden search operators — undocumented, unsupported, and still working — can do what the missing filters would have done.…
Update April 2026: Not only can you find your LinkedIn Member number, but you can find the member numbers of any profile you view, simply by going to Chrome’s menu and clicking on View ->…
