一位求职者在经历了数月的求职不顺后，开始更具策略性地利用LinkedIn的“申请人数少于10人”筛选器，并因此取得了成功。她分享了这一技巧，并表示该方法帮助她在一个月内就获得了新工作机会。文章详细介绍了该筛选器如何帮助她发现那些不那么热门但与她技能匹配的职位，并强调了在求职过程中保持耐心和灵活策略的重要性。

💡 **策略性求职的重要性**：文章主人公Lauren Young在求职初期面临压力和挫败感，认识到需要改变策略。她从盲目投递转向更具针对性的方法，即利用LinkedIn的特定筛选功能，这体现了在信息爆炸时代，精准定位和策略性执行是求职成功的关键。

🎯 **“申请人数少于10人”筛选器的妙用**：Lauren Young发现LinkedIn的“申请人数少于10人”筛选器是她求职的转折点。该筛选器帮助她避开了竞争激烈的热门职位，转而关注那些可能被忽视但同样适合她的机会，特别是在小型企业或职位名称不那么显眼的岗位中，从而大大提高了获得面试的机会。

🚀 **快速高效的求职流程**：通过运用该筛选器，Lauren Young在短时间内就收到了新工作的录用通知。她描述了从申请到收到offer的快速过程，强调了这一方法在节省时间和提高效率方面的显著优势，尤其适合那些有时间紧迫感的求职者。

📈 **对LinkedIn筛选功能的建议**：尽管“申请人数少于10人”筛选器非常有效，Lauren Young也提出了改进建议，希望LinkedIn能提供更多类似选项，例如“申请人数少于50人”或“少于100人”，以满足不同求职者的需求，进一步优化求职体验。

Lauren Young used LinkedIn's "under-10-applicants" filter to secure a new job.Young was stressed and unsuccessful in her job search until she used LinkedIn filters.The filter helped her find roles with fewer applicants, leading to a quick job offer.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lauren Young, a 28-year-old continuing education specialist, based in Indiana. It's been edited for length and clarity.

In March, I was becoming increasingly unhappy and stressed out at work, so I started applying to multiple jobs a day.

Even within the short time that I was back in the job market, from March to June, it was getting worse, and I started to panic. I was having no luck landing a new role.

I was primarily applying for roles on LinkedIn, and as I scrolled, I saw jobs posted with a hundred or even thousands of applicants. It wasn't until I paid closer attention to how I searched for jobs that I found the "under 10 applicants" filter on LinkedIn, which helped me land my next role within about a month of using it.

I reentered the job market to find a better career

I studied education in college and taught elementary school for several years before I started working for a local retail company, where I oversaw employee training. It wasn't what I saw myself doing long-term, but it was a job I knew would help build my skillset, and then I would hopefully be able to find a good career to settle down in.

About a year and a half into the role, I decided to start looking elsewhere. I was so stressed out all the time, and I didn't think I could stay much longer. I had luckily worked on impressive projects, built up a lot of technical skills, and had things in my portfolio that I was really excited to use in my applications.

When I started using the correct LinkedIn filters, my job prospects got better

Once I had been back in the job market and saw how bad it was, I started playing around with LinkedIn filters, trying to be more strategic about how I spent my time looking for work.

I looked for jobs with fewer applicants or jobs that were just posted that day, and that's when I found the "under 10 applicants" filter. It's one of the last options under the function that says "all filters," pretty close to the bottom.

Once I started using it, I saw roles at small businesses that didn't have a huge following on LinkedIn. There were roles that were also the same or very similar to ones I had been applying for, but they had weird titles that I wouldn't have paid attention to, or ones that wouldn't have come up under my keyword searches alone.

I used this tool during my last month of searching for jobs.

After 2 weeks of interviews, I got my new job offer

I don't remember which exact keyword I used to find my current role. I'd usually search for keywords like "learning," "training," and sometimes "education" while using the filter.

My role now is helping medical professionals who are seeking different educational opportunities or want to get further licensing. I didn't think I would be a top applicant since I'd never worked in the medical industry, but it had very few applicants and had just been posted.

The post included the HR email and asked that I email my résumé as part of the application. By the next day, I had already received an email back from HR, and they were looking to fill the role quickly.

It was a pretty fast interview process. I landed my first interview at the end of May and received my offer letter in mid-June. I was so relieved.

The 'under 10 applicants' filter is better than the other job search filters I've used on LinkedIn, but I wish it had more options

I tried using other LinkedIn filters, too. I would use the filter for "jobs posted within the last day," which was still helpful, but I feel like everyone uses that.

I live outside Chicago, and some of the jobs that would come up would be at huge Fortune 500 corporations that people really wanted to work at. Even if the role was posted within the last day or the last hour, there were still hundreds of applicants immediately.

I had to do a lot of sifting with that filter, and since I was on a time crunch, switching to the under-10-applicants one helped me be more efficient.

I do wish there were filters for applicants under 50 or 100 because 10 is a really small number. Ideally, LinkedIn would have multiple filters for the number of applicants, which would be a lot more helpful to people trying to find roles.

I love my new job and have helped friends use the filter in their job search

One of my coworkers was looking for a new job at the same time as me, and she was having a hard time. She applied to a few jobs and wasn't getting anything back. I shared my filter hack with her, and it was how she got her first interview after reentering the job market.

I believe the job she has now had more than 10 applicants when she applied, but it helped to build her confidence in getting that first interview out of the way.

My new role has been completely life-changing. I'm able to work primarily remotely, and I only go into the office about once a month. The company has great benefits, a really generous PTO policy, and a great work-life balance.

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