LinkedIn Job Search Filters: What Works and What's Missing

Which filters LinkedIn job search has now

The filter list changed when LinkedIn moved job search to AI. Its help page on AI-powered job search says the AI version "is available to all LinkedIn members worldwide" and that LinkedIn is "gradually retiring classic job search starting in September." On that page, the filters that "remain available on the job search results page" are:

• Date posted
• Company
• Experience level
• Employment type (previously called Job type)
• Remote
• Easy Apply
• In my network
• Under 10 applicants

LinkedIn's older Filter and sort job search results page gives a slightly different set: it lists Location as a filter and has no Remote. The AI search page lists Remote and does not list Location; it suggests including your preferred location in the search itself. Both pages are live, and LinkedIn does not explain the difference.

The AI page also describes suggested filters, which "appear right under the search bar and adapt based on your search." Its example: "product manager jobs in San Francisco" might suggest Growth, B2B, SMB, or Digital. They are available in English, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese so far. If you still see classic search and wonder how long it will last, the AI vs classic search guide covers the switch.

What each LinkedIn job filter is good for, and where it stops

• Date posted. Options are any time (the default), the past 24 hours, the past week, and the past month. If you check daily, use the past 24 hours. It narrows by age only, so jobs you already opened stay in the list, and LinkedIn documents nothing shorter than 24 hours. HideJobs' Filter by Hours goes down to the last hour, in classic search only.
• Company. Narrows results to "a specific company or multiple companies." Useful when you have a target list. LinkedIn describes it only as a way to include companies and does not mention leaving one out. To drop a company, use HideJobs' Companies filter.
• Experience level. Drops roles that are too junior or too senior. If titles with "Senior" or "Lead" still get through at your chosen level, HideJobs' Keywords filter hides cards with those words in the visible card text.
• Employment type. Full-time, part-time, contract, internship, or volunteer. If you want a full-time role, setting it to full-time is the quickest way to stop seeing contracts.
• Remote. Shows remote jobs. Hybrid and On-site are not on the current AI search list, so in AI search you cannot pick "hybrid only" as a filter right now.
• Easy Apply. Limits results to jobs you can apply to directly on LinkedIn. Whether that is the better route is covered in Easy Apply vs applying directly.
• In my network. Jobs in your network. Use it to spot an employer where someone you know might refer you.
• Under 10 applicants. Shows jobs that "currently have less than 10 applicants." It is the only applicant-count filter, and no LinkedIn filter hides the crowded end, such as jobs with over 100 applicants. Those stay in your results unless you turn this on and see only the emptiest few. HideJobs' Deep Scanner finds jobs with over 100 applicants on the current page so you can hide them; it is slow because it opens each job.

I'd use two filters together rather than one. For a morning check, Date posted (past 24 hours) with Under 10 applicants; for a full-time remote role, Remote with Employment type set to full-time; for a target list, Company with Date posted set to the past week. Whichever pair you pick, add HideJobs' Applied and Viewed so jobs you already handled drop out.

Filters that went missing in AI search, and what to type instead

LinkedIn's AI search page names three filters it is "actively working to" bring back: Verified job (previously called Has Verifications), Sort by: Most recent / Most relevant, and Hybrid / On-site. It gives no date. Until they return:

• Instead of Sort by Most recent: set Date posted to the past 24 hours or the past week. It limits age without sorting, which is close enough when you check often.
• Instead of Hybrid or On-site: type it into your search, for example "hybrid product designer in Chicago." LinkedIn says you can type details you would normally use a filter for "directly into your search."
• Instead of Verified job: open the listing and look for LinkedIn's job post verification badge, which means information about the company or the job poster was verified.

LinkedIn's own example searches show how far typing goes: "Entry-level sales jobs in healthcare posted in the last week" and "Finance manager roles in my network with less than 10 applicants." LinkedIn says AI search matches intent "without relying on exact keywords and filters," so a typed detail is not guaranteed to work like a filter; keep the real filters on where one exists.

Why filtered results still show jobs you did not ask for

Even with filters on, LinkedIn adds jobs you did not ask for:

• AI matching. LinkedIn says searching "entry-level marketing jobs" can surface "Marketing Coordinator" or "Junior Marketing Associate," even if the listing never uses the phrase "entry-level." That helps when you are unsure of the title and gets in the way when you know exactly what you want.
• Personalization. LinkedIn "may use data from your profile and search activity to personalize your results," and orders results using your search activity and "other members who have made similar searches."
• Suggestions. The filter page warns: "You may see additional suggestions based on your search query and preferences."

Being specific helps, and LinkedIn recommends it: location, experience level, specialty, skills, or industry. So do the thumbs up and thumbs down on results, which LinkedIn says it uses to improve your job search. LinkedIn does not say that either one takes a job out of the list you are looking at.

What no LinkedIn filter can remove

None of LinkedIn's documented filters removes jobs you already applied to, viewed, or dismissed with the X, promoted or reposted listings (LinkedIn treats a reposted closed job as a new job post), jobs with over 100 applicants, a company you never want to see, or titles containing a word you want to avoid, such as "senior," "director," or "intern."

Excluding a word is the one people expect to work. LinkedIn's Boolean search page describes NOT for "the main search bar at the top of the page" and does not mention job search, and AI search matches meaning "without relying on exact keywords." So there is no documented way to exclude a word from a LinkedIn job search. HideJobs has a filter for each of these gaps.

How to filter out what LinkedIn will not

HideJobs adds the filters LinkedIn does not have. It runs on LinkedIn's job search pages (AI and classic) and job collections, in a desktop browser. It does not work on a single job page, in the LinkedIn app, or in alert emails.

• Applied, Viewed, and Promoted. Hide cards that carry LinkedIn's own Applied, Viewed, or Promoted label. LinkedIn's job search safety page lists "Promoted by hirer" ("The employer paid to promote the job, signaling priority") among signs of a legitimate job, so hiding Promoted removes paid placements; it is not a scam filter.
• Dismissed. Hides jobs you dismissed with the X, which otherwise stay in your results.
• Companies. Click the eye icon next to a company name on any card and all that company's jobs disappear. A "Company hidden" notice lets you undo it.
• Keywords. Hides cards whose visible text, mostly the title, company, and location, contains your words. It does not read the full description, and it matches parts of words, so "Java" also hides "JavaScript."
• Filter by Hours. Reloads the search with jobs posted in the last few hours, in whole hours. Classic search only, so it stops being useful once LinkedIn retires classic search on your account.
• Deep Scanner. Click Go Scan and it opens each job on the current page, one at a time, to find reposted jobs, jobs with over 100 applicants, and your words in the full description, then lets you hide them. It is slow and you can watch it work: the page scrolls and the job details change as it goes.

In AI search and classic search, Applied, Viewed, Promoted, and Dismissed have separate switches, so turn them on in both if you use both. Your company and keyword lists are shared.

LinkedIn's job tracker updates Easy Apply jobs automatically, but to track a job you apply to off LinkedIn, "you will first need to Save that job," and its help page says nothing about applications on other job boards. If you are logged in to HideJobs, cards at a company you already applied to get a line such as "Likely applied to this job on Indeed" or "Applied to 3 jobs at this company." It reads the jobs in your HideJobs job tracker: applications through LinkedIn's own apply flow are added for you, and on Indeed and the other supported sites, "Mark as Applied" offers "Add to Job Tracker?". "Likely" is a guess from the job title, so it can miss a renamed role. The line labels the card and never hides it.

Each filter has its own guide with more detail: applied jobs, excluding companies, excluding keywords, reposted jobs, jobs with over 100 applicants, viewed jobs, dismissed jobs, and promoted listings. To get new matches without searching again, set up LinkedIn job alerts.