LinkedIn - A true search wiz
September 14, 2017

LinkedIn - A true search wiz

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with LinkedIn Sales Navigator

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is used to help us locate potential candidates for short and long term consulting placements. It is used by the whole organization though some departments might lean on it more than others. It helps us locate individuals quite quickly and allows us to use search criteria that we could not input on a search engine like Google.
  • Filters the results based on title
  • Immediately pulls up advisors who have worked at or are currently at a company of interest
  • Easy to interact with individuals using connection requests or inmails
  • I do think it would be nice to filter individuals by year that they left a company
  • The seniority filter results do not always encapture all of the people
  • LInkedIn has made it very easy for me to locate candidates depending on the given project I am working on
  • It has also increased employee efficiency as it is easier to reach out to potential networking connections or candidates for consulting
  • Faster lead conversion as well
The one alternative solution that comes to mind is ZoomInfo as a tool to locate potential networking connections or people that might be interested in helping us out on a given research project. I would say a benefit of ZoomInfo is that they immediately show any direct contact emails for candidates. LinkedIn lets you inmail people but there is a chance that doesn't go directly to their email.
As noted, Linkedin Sales Navigator does a great job of locating individuals from a certain company or industry, depending on what you are looking for. That said, there are times that I have used certain filters such as seniority filter or have been looking for someone from a specific company and they will show me someone who left years ago, which is not very helpful.

LinkedIn Sales Navigator Feature Ratings

Advanced search
7
Identification of new leads
7
List quality
7
List upload/download
9
Ideal customer targeting
8
Load time/data access
8
Contact information
8
Company information
8
Industry information
8
Lead qualification process
7
Smart lists and recommendations
8
Salesforce integration
7
Company/business profiles
9
Alerts and reminders
7
Data hygiene
8
Automatic data refresh
9
Tags
7
Filters and segmentation
7
Sales email templates
7
Append emails to records
8