Tool Talk Sponsored by Seekout

A working sourcer's tour of SeekOut covers the exact search logic, filters, and follow-up sequences used on live requisitions, rather than a generic feature overview.

• Search construction: combining current and past company into one logical statement, pairing current/past title with headline text (since people often describe their real role more plainly there than in an official title), and using graduation year instead of the built-in years-of-experience filter to avoid LinkedIn's inconsistent counting.
• Negative search: using not instead of a minus sign to strip out false positives that turn up in a broad search.
• Power filters: saving a combination of company, title, headline, graduation year and exclusion logic as a single reusable filter, then stacking it with built-in filters for work authorization or security clearance so a search starts pre-qualified before any keywords are typed.
• Diversity sourcing: using a single combined diversity power filter rather than stacking individual tags, which narrows results down to an intersectional group instead of the full population.
• Insights reports: pulling geographic concentration, competitor companies, feeder companies, word-cloud keyword analysis, and relevant LinkedIn groups to prep for hiring manager conversations, benchmark diversity representation, and qualify whether a requirement is realistic before sourcing begins.
• Outreach automation: building multi-step email campaigns that pause automatically once a candidate replies, with reminders (not automated sends) for text or LinkedIn follow-up.
• Expert search: surfacing people published in verified scientific or technical journals, then using citation and co-author data to identify peers of a known expert who might be stronger candidates than the most visible name in a field.

Also covered: creating and sharing a custom power filter from any saved search, and where the underlying candidate data is pulled from across professional and social platforms.