Sales Navigator Advanced Search

Sales Navigator's default search — a job title and an industry — returns thousands of results with wildly variable fit. Its advanced filters, layered correctly, narrow that to a genuinely qualified list, and its saved-search alerts turn a one-time search into an ongoing signal feed. Most seats never use either capability past the basics.

Layer filters instead of relying on one

Weak     title: "VP Marketing", industry: "Software" — thousands
         of loosely-relevant results
Strong   title AND seniority level AND company headcount range AND
         geography AND (where relevant) years in current role

Seniority level as a separate filter from job title catches the titling inconsistency that a title-only search misses — "Head of Growth," "VP Growth," "Growth Lead" are the same seniority tier with wildly different titles, and filtering by seniority tier alongside a looser title match catches variants a strict title search excludes entirely.

Filters worth using beyond the obvious