Mailbag: "Why is the Company Field Limited to 25 Characters?"

Certain company names are too long to fit in the company field, especially if they were made of multiple words. The company in question was "Agrium Advanced Technologies".

We restricted company length to 25 characters to prevent you from entering unnecessary words -- this search should simply use Agrium.

Unnecessary words like Incorporated, Corp, Company, and Inc., will skew search results because people create profiles with multiple variations of the same company name.

Searching under multiple company variations is a great way to catch all the variants as the Peopletoucher Search Engine will put "OR" operators between terms for you. In other words, entering HP and Hewlett Packard will match candidates or decision makers with either listed as their current company.

You do not need to add in hyphens as they are ignored by LinkedIn.

You do not need to add quotes as they are automatically added to any multi-word term by the Peopletoucher Search Engine.

Try this search:

http://peopletoucher.com/linkedinsearch/?sel=Yhewlett_packard,YHP&rf_1=1...