MLB Baseball executive Billy Beane figured out that everyone was measuring the wrong things. Nate Silver figured out that a model is only as honest as the inputs feeding it. In an era of AI-generated…
The internal executive search function was built to do retained search’s job better, faster, and at a fraction of the cost. For the most part, it succeeds. The ceiling appears at the VP+ level, on…
LinkedIn has 1.3 billion members and the most powerful professional search interface ever built. It is also not a recruiter, cannot qualify a candidate, and has no way of telling you whether the profile you…
Most companies looking to build more representative leadership teams are searching in the wrong places, using methods that structurally exclude the candidates they most need to find. The problem is not effort. It is methodology.
LinkedIn’s 1.3 billion member profiles look like an inexhaustible talent pool. For executive recruiters, they are something more complicated — a digital mirage that grows more convincing, and more treacherous, with every passing year. Incomplete…
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.…
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 ->…
