LinkedIn X-Ray Workaround

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The loss of LinkedIn X-Ray saddens our community. Indeed, we can no longer find the About, Experience, and more on Google. Bing will naturally follow. However – here is a productive way to use the “remaining” X-Ray. Step 1. Start with X-Rays for the location, job titles, and, optionally, companies, like site:linkedin.com/in “san francisco bay area” python developer at google. …

LinkedIn Profiles Redacted, X-Ray Dying, Aggregators Will Suffer

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My friend Marcel van der Meer’s message shocked me this morning. He was the first to notice a huge reduction in LinkedIn public profiles. The Headline, About section, Experience, and Education are gone. There are still some public profiles with the full data, but it’s a matter of time before all will be reduced. LinkedIn has notified Google, so there …

AI and LinkedIn Are Like Oil And Water

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My AI-related experience as a LinkedIn member has been interesting. I have been getting hilarious (or sad?) notifications for my potential job-hunting from LinkedIn – see LinkedIn Wants Me to Pack Groceries and Learn Fluoroscopy. This morning, I took a look at my skill suggestions. Unfortunately, they were not any better – I have as much skill in Manufacturing Process …

Julia’s Google Search Results Extractor

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I have been missing a convenient tool for Google search results scraping ever since Google redesigned the output screen. The tool’s need arose from Google switching the output format to scrolling with “more results” from the previous convenient page-by-page view. The change broke the beloved Instant Data Scraper. Julia Tverskaya is our long-term Partner, Sourcer, Recruiter, and a good friend. …

Have Skills, LinkedIn?

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LinkedIn tells us we are moving toward skills-based hiring and stresses the updated skills search that is smart about the content of members’ profiles and can guess skills. Is that so? Please review LinkedIn Wants Me to Pack Groceries and Learn Fluoroscopy if you haven’t. It’s a (sad) joke. LinkedIn Engineering observes that Recruiters find and contact only a small …

AI Can Search But Not Source: More On AI-Search-Engine Integration

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At the beginning of this AI wave, services popped up that offered search engines and AI “integration,” like this: There is no integration here other than combining results on the same screen. However, the latest developments in search-the-web-plus-AI tools are promising. It was welcome news that Bing is back with ChatGPT and the GPT-4 data has been updated to 2023. …

Creating Batch Match GPT

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GPTs are fascinating and promising. I want to share my experience creating one. I regularly use SalesQL batch import of LinkedIn profiles and get a rich output where each record has detailed info about the members. The other two systems I use for the rich output are SeekOut and ContactOut. These outputs have much more detail than export from LinkedIn …

Bing Orchestrator Helps Search and LLMs Talk

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Search engines and LLMs work on very different principles. Tech companies have tried to marry the two, but integration is challenging. I have just watched this video (recommended!) about Bing that sheds quite a bit of light on how the search engine and LLM integration works in Bing. The pic above is from the video and shows a diagram of …

Combining AI and Web Search in Talent Sourcing: Proceed with Caution

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GPTs is wonderful AI news. Expect even more changes! Full disclosure: I did not write or edit the post in italics below. I created a GPT, sent it to read this blog, and then asked to write a post related to AI and talent sourcing. The GPT called itself “Blog Composer,” provided me with the picture above and wrote a …

LinkedIn Wants Me to Pack Groceries and Learn Fluoroscopy

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Image by #Midjourney (which cannot write yet) LinkedIn is going to lead its members in finding relevant jobs. I want to show you what I received yesterday from LinkedIn in that regard. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad! Here is my profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva. Recently I have been into AI drawing with Midjourney as a hobby, and …