Linkedin is a powerful social network full of opportunities and great features that allow many professionals throughout the world, connect, share experiences, negotiate and get beneficial jobs.
One of the best functions that this network has is that of browse different profiles in search of a candidate that meets the abilities and aptitudes, which are usually sought by recruiting users.
But on many occasions the person doing this search may want keep this process secret so that users do not know they are being reviewed. In order for you to learn how to do this, you need to read this simple post.
Are there private profiles on Linkedin?
They exist and are just right, as they are a powerful tool both to hide your information and to consult the data of companies, potential partners, among other entities. But, all this has a single professional purpose, which would be to analyze and evaluate different business opportunities without leaving a trace.
This is because when a profile on Linkedin is marked as private, the user acquires the ability to visit the other profiles that he pleases, without the owners knowing. Well, all users who are visited will only receive notification that an anonymous profile has visited them.
That is why it is necessary to clarify for those people who perhaps do not yet have an account on this platform, that this is the only network that allows you to know how many people visit your biography. In addition, it allows you to see who are the people who are browsing it.
Steps to look at a profile on Linkedin without being discovered
To be able to visit profiles of other professionals or companies without them knowing that you have done so, you need to be in an anonymous state or that you do it from another account that is not yours. Let’s see how these two methods work in more detail.
With Private Mode
Private mode is the state of anonymity already mentioned in the course of this post. To activate it, you must first :
- On the top bar there is an option called “Me” with our profile photo, there we must click.
- Continually click on the option “Settings and privacy” from the displayed menu.
- Later, in the new window we must go down until we find the section that says “How others see your activity on Linkedin”.
- In the first item of this section we find that it says “Profile View Options”, Click on it to modify it.
- Finally, a menu with 3 options will be displayed, in which we must choose the last one, since it is the one that allows us to be completely anonymous and it is the one that says “Anonymous Linkedin User”.
With this active, we can now visit profiles of other users without anyone really knowing who was reviewing their profile.
From another user’s account
The second method is a little more complicated to achieve, because You will need to have the access data of a friend or acquaintance who has the profile that you need to investigate among their contacts. In this case, it is recommended that it be someone you trust so that you can access this activity.
On the other hand, you can also choose the creating a fake profile to send the request to the person you want to review, and if this person accepts you, then you can review their information without them actually knowing who you are.
Is it possible to visit a profile that was marked as private on Linkedin?
It’s totally possible Although we have our profile in private mode, any of the other users with whom we have made a connection will be able to review our data. Even users who have not connected with us will be able to type our name and we appear in searches normally.
The difference is that when we have the profile in private mode, We will not be able to have access to the information about the metrics of who visits our profile nor in how many searches we appear titled.
Therefore, it is advisable to use private mode wisely, perhaps it is good at times to collect and analyze data without creating a stir. But, immediately after completing this collection, you must return to the original configuration to favor the natural growth of the account. Well, in this network you can only grow by visiting profiles and seeing who visits us to return the seen.
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