Module 2 · Tactical Search
Turning LinkedIn Recruiter into a search scalpel: what every field really does behind the interface, and how to build searches that are reliable, repeatable and far more exhaustive.
The most advanced LinkedIn training · by a sourcer, for real sourcers
You think you master LinkedIn Recruiter? Think again.
Half your SoSu ticket, taken straight off the training.
You are already in Amsterdam for Sourcing Summit. Stay for Friday 9 October and take the two most advanced modules of the PAT programme in one day: Tactical Search and Legendary Mode, in English.
12 recruiters max · venue to be confirmed
How the Red Shoes deal works
We deduct 50% of your SoSu ticket as a discount.
At Sourcing Summit, the red shoes go to the people who have taken that stage more than ten times. Guillaume has. This is how he says thank you to the room: half the price of your SoSu ticket comes off the training.
- 01
You hold a SoSu Amsterdam ticket
Attendee, speaker, sponsor: any Sourcing Summit Amsterdam 2026 ticket qualifies.
- 02
We deduct half of it
275 € off the standard 1 000 € day, exactly half a standard summit ticket.
- 03
You pay 725 €
One invoice, one day, two modules. Book before the summit fills the room.
Standard day
1 000 €
Bitterballen SoSu Red Shoes mega discount
− 275 €
You pay
725 €
Friday 9 October · Amsterdam 9:00-12:30 14:00-17:00 Included
One day. Two half-days. Nothing filler.
Module 3 · Legendary Mode
Hidden fields, undocumented operators, exhaustivity on perimeters the standard interface simply cannot isolate. The level very few recruiters ever reach.
- Real cases I worked on, real logic, reproduced live on the platform
- Access to the hidden-operator generator
- Custom-filter templates to reuse Monday
- Lunch break 12:30-14:00, room open all day
Venue to be confirmed · central Amsterdam
Why this day exists
The most logical field is the one that betrays you most.
You need people who work at a bank, so you tick the Banking industry filter. Logical. Except that field is declarative, filled in by users themselves, and badly maintained.
40-60% of a given company's profiles are missed, on average, when you rely on the industry field alone.
+30-40% extra false positives depending on the sector: people the field files under banking who never worked there.
9+6 chapters covered in the day: nine on tactical search, six on legendary mode.
The only way out is an exhaustive market mapping, and doing it without blind spots is exactly what this day teaches.
The programme, field by field 
Module 2 · 9:00-12:30 
Module 3 · 14:00-17:00
Everything we cover, in the open.
Module 2 · 9:00-12:30 Tactical Search
You stop searching on intuition. You start running an investigation.
- Recruiter licence required
- 9 chapters
- 01
Define the persona and translate it into criteria
Turning a hiring need into operational criteria you can actually use in Recruiter, the base of every reliable search.
- 02
The location field
How LinkedIn really interprets location, where it traps you, and how to use it without losing profiles.
- 03
Mastering the pills
Getting the most out of the search pills: quotes, variants and operators combined into queries that hold up.
- 04
The company field and LinkedIn's internal AI
How the internal AI pushes certain fields, why industry betrays you, and how to work the company field properly.
- 05
Job titles and their taxonomies
Decoding multilingual, inconsistent title taxonomies so you don't miss profiles over a wording gap.
- 06
Keywords and boolean queries
Building solid, universal, reproducible boolean strings instead of searching by guesswork.
- 07
Market mapping and external AI
Pushing LinkedIn's AI towards Talent Insights, using external LLMs for market mapping, then feeding that data back into Recruiter as custom filters.
- 08
Working with projects and monitoring
Structuring searches into projects, tracking how a population evolves, spotting new entrants and freshly Open to Work candidates.
- 09
Custom filters and complementary tools
Building your own custom filters, then extending everything with tools like freesourcingtools.com and LinkedZen.
Module 3 · 14:00-17:00 Legendary Mode
You reach exhaustivity where the interface gives up.
- Expert level
- 6 chapters
- 01
Understanding the filters in depth
Years of experience, years of graduation, schools, fields of study, seniority, job functions: what each one really does, its traps, and how to combine them without losing profiles.
- 02
Extrapolating and transferring filters
Turning a current company into a company filter through AI for a wider view, and mapping an entire corporate group at once.
- 03
The hidden-search generator
Exploiting fields that are invisible in the standard interface to refine results beyond what looks possible.
- 04
Reaching exhaustivity on a mapping
Using search insights, building and filtering school lists, developing exclusive filters the standard interface cannot produce.
- 05
Finding the profiles nobody finds
Identifying people who are not currently employed and not Open to Work, where standard searches never go.
- 06
Access to the exclusive resources
The hidden-operator generator and the reserved resources, so the mastery keeps running long after the session.
Still doubting?
Answer every question I ask and learn nothing, I give your ticket away.
I ask questions all day long. If you can answer them all and walk out having learned nothing, 100% of your ticket price goes to a charity of your choice.
Not kidding. Get ready to rethink the platform.
Who it is for, who it is not for
We aim narrow. Better for everyone.
Take the seat if
- You search in LinkedIn Recruiter and you have a licence on the day.
- You source intensively, more than a day a week.
- You sense you are missing profiles and cannot explain why.
- You are in Amsterdam for the summit anyway.
Skip it if
- You never touch LinkedIn Recruiter: the strategic Module 1 fits you better.
- You want disposable hacks rather than a method.
- You are brand new to sourcing: Legendary Mode would be wasted on you today.
Who is teaching
Practitioner first, trainer second.
Guillaume Alexandre has been sourcing for twenty years and still sources today, on live mandates. Since 2019 he has trained more than 350 sourcers through The People Attraction Theory, in French and in English, in-house and inter-company.
Nothing in the room is theory he read somewhere. Everything is a technique he uses on his own searches, which is also why the programme changes every time LinkedIn does.
350+ sourcers trained
2019 training since
20yrs sourcing in the field
Before you book
Straight answers.
01. Do I have to attend Sourcing Summit to get the 725 € price?
Yes. The Red Shoes deal is reserved for Sourcing Summit Amsterdam attendees: we ask for your ticket reference at registration. Without a summit ticket, the day is 1 000 €.
02. Do I need my own LinkedIn Recruiter licence?
Yes, for the practical parts. Modules 2 and 3 are built inside Recruiter: bring a laptop and a seat you can log into. Recruiter Lite works, but not every feature is there: some, such as Open to Work monitoring, are simply not available on Lite. The advanced operators, on the other hand, open up fields you normally have no access to, on Lite too.
03. Where exactly in Amsterdam?
Venue to be confirmed, in central Amsterdam. Everyone registered gets the address and the practical details at least two weeks before 9 October.
04. Is Module 1 needed first?
No. Module 1 is the strategic, upstream part and it is not a prerequisite for the technical track. If you want it too, it is available as video-on-demand and we can bundle it with your registration.
05. Can my employer be invoiced?
Yes. One invoice from Gates Solutions Sàrl, Switzerland, with your purchase-order reference if you need one. Prices are excl. VAT.
Friday 9 October · Amsterdam · English
Two modules, one day, 725 €.
Twelve seats, because everyone works on their own live searches. Real cases, real life: really showing you how the system actually works and how to get the most out of it.
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Already flying back?
Can't make it on the 9th? Take it online.
Session 4, in English, live online: the full three-module programme spread over three mornings in November, with two months of replay.
- Module 1 · Strategy
Friday 20 November
9:00-12:30 - Module 2 · Tactical Search
Tuesday 24 November
9:00-12:30 - Module 3 · Legendary Mode
Friday 27 November
9:00-12:00
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