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I love using Skills whenever possible. Folks often worry, “but what if a member didn’t list a specific skill that they know in their skill sections?” I totally get that concern, but did you know LTI pulls skills in 2 different ways from our member’s profiles:

  • Explicit: Skills that members list within the Skills section of their member profiles.

  • Implicit: Through the application of natural-language processing technology, we’re able to read and extract skills from other parts of the member’s profile including the job title, job descriptions, and profile summary.

 

There’re only a couple times when I use the Keyword filter instead of Skills:

  • When searching for a niche/emerging skill that’s not yet a part of LinkedIn’s skills taxonomy
  • When searching for very specific licenses, certifications, or other obscure acronyms

thank you @Raza Dada  for opening this topic. i prefer using keywords as a second filtration to the skills, not all people are transparent about the skill that they added in their profiles and this create some bias in the skills data. also it depends on the maturity of the market/country that you re searching in, for example the Egyptian market is somehow not familiar how to use LinkedIn properly and this is the opposite to the UAE market for example.

@Raza Dada thank you for raising this helpful question-tip. I have been wondering about this very thing:  when to utilize skills vs keyword filter. The knowledge of the back-end technology of LinkedIN is very helpful.

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