Can your internal recruiting team see that you're "privately open" to new roles on LinkedIn?

I'm pretty happy with my current role, but I'm also open to hearing about what's out there, so I'm considering turning on "privately open to new roles" on my LI profile. That said, I don't really want my internal recruiting team (who uses LinkedIn Recruiter) to see that I'm passively looking.


Can they see I'm open to new roles? Am I in my own head?

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I think LI tries to hide it from your own company but they can’t guarantee. That said, who cares if they see it. They’ll never confront you and even if they did you can claim ignorance and say you forgot to turn it off. 
BmajoR
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As far as I know, yes. Also, nice stealie. 
UrAssIsSaaS
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bad ass stealie
BmajoR
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No wonder we get along even though you hate my company
UrAssIsSaaS
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SaaS Eater
haha - a friend of the devil is a friend of mine. 

if you knew who my current employer was, you would hate mine right back.  

I also dont actually hate gong, its just low hanging fruit to talk shit. 
BmajoR
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Account Executive
Lol well played lyric!

lmao I do know your company and you're right - but they are helpful at the same time. 

When DMs go live I've got some gold to share with you. 
UrAssIsSaaS
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SaaS Eater
Looking forward to it
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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Yes they will be able to see it if they are out there looking for you. So what though? How would they approach you?
poweredbycaffeine
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LI hides it from your company, but if your company works with an outside firm, you'll be exposed.

Oh, and when you apply via LinkedIn, don't leave the checkbox for "Follow this Company?" checked...you like 5-6 of them in a week and people will get suspicious. 
Prunetracey
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VP Growth
I've had mine on for the past 5 years. If this is concerning to your internal recruitment/people team, then maybe they should work on creating a better environment for their staff orrrrrrrrr realise that this isn't a bad thing and that there's nothing wrong with being open to opportunities in life.
someoneinsales
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Worse case if they can, that sparks a conversation with you manager as to why you are interested in hearing other options. Maybe a raise there. 

We are in sales. If you dont think your boss takes calls to hear whats out there every once in a while, you are wrong. 

Got to do what is right for yourself. 
NoSuperhero
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I think there's an option for that to be seen only to recruiters, probably your company's recruiters included but it's whatevs. They want to keep the best they know that people will probably come talk to me from time to time, so yeah leverage baby!
Justatitle
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Account Executive
They can probably see it but worse case you can say it’s always been on for you and you didn’t even know it was on. Plausible deniability 
Do.it.for.the.checks
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I used to work for COO who made a burner to track this shit.

But this is a great example of when to look for new work anyways
RaymundoFlex
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AE
I knew a guy whose LinkedIn bio said “Perennial top performer currently looking for jobs outside of ______.” (his current company). Haha pretty badass (in a way), very petty, but he closed a lot, and got what he wanted.
ragnarlothbrok
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this is a great question, I have mine set to open to new opportunities all the time. If anyone ever said anything I would just play dumb

CaneWolf
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They tell you it's no. I would assume that your recruiting team also wouldn't be looking at that anyway.
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A visual representation of my sdr not checking and prospecting into an already open opportunity....

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When you have your LinkedIn account set to "open to work" and recruiters reach out all the time do you take the mindset of "I need to sell myself for this role" OR "The recruiter needs to sell the role to myself?"

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