Remember the Skills pages on LinkedIn? They went away in 2013. Many professionals who are in search for Talent liked the Skill pages while they were up. The pages listed “related skills”, helped to navigate unfamiliar terminology and suggested a variety of keywords to use. At this time, apparently, LinkedIn is expanding its Topic pages. Topics include Universities, Companies, Industries – and now, Skills as well! You can find the …
Large Free Resume Database Hidden In Plain Sight
It didn’t use to be some years ago, but now searching for online resumes on Google is a bit of a pain. We need to use advanced operators (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) and add keywords. Then, we need to exclude job posts (-job -jobs -careers …). Need to exclude resume samples and templates (-sample -example…). Even then, the results will be populated …
When Searching in English Outperforms Searching in Boolean
Hello and welcome back to my blog posts. Hope many of you had a nice summer vacation! I took a break in posting blogs and giving webinars in the last few weeks for long weekends in the mountains and also working on a big Sourcing Project that I will write about soon. This post is the “Back to School” sort, …
Searching the Internet? Bookmark This Chart
To help fellow Recruiters, Sourcers, and Researchers in creating Boolean Strings and searching the Internet – here is a basic search operators comparison chart for Google vs. Bing from our Sourcing Guidebook. Using the correct search syntax is critical for sourcing productivity. Avoid some common mistakes. Note that AND is not a Google operator (don’t include it); parentheses are ignored on Google (you can use them …
Magically Sourcing Resumes on Slideshare
We’ve recently had a good (and still ongoing) discussion on the Boolean group on How to find LinkedIn profiles that have a resume embedded into the page via slideshare.net. I thought it might be useful to summarize the main points. While Slideshare is now part of LinkedIn, there’s not a whole lot we can do regarding searching for the Slideshare documents attached …
Texting While Sourcing – By @Arron_Daniels
Author: Arron Daniels Disclaimer: These views are Arron’s and not necessarily mine, but I think it’s a great topic to discuss. Big thanks to Arron for offering the post and also for recently holding one of the most engaged Bi-weekly Chats on the Sourcer’s Network. (photo credit) I had the privilege of co-moderating Boolean Strings Network’s Bi-Weekly People Sourcing Chat last week. Our chats …
Sourcing on Facebook, Twitter, and Google-Plus: New Webinar!
As Sourcers and Recruiters, we face increasing costs for searching and messaging on the dedicated professional networks and decreasing performance on job boards. It’s time to review the sourcing capabilities of the “other” major Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook, and Google-Plus. These Social Networks do not identify as the designated sites to recruit professionals, yet they contain huge volumes of professional …
Searching for Persons on the Internet Using Semantic Markup
Since search engines index all sorts of pages, finding the pages only with profiles of people is a challenging task. Our usual way to find profiles only is: Narrow down the search to a site that has profiles (X-Ray). Add some keywords common to all profiles and rarely found on other pages (often in the titles or URLs of the profiles), and …
Googling for LinkedIn Profiles
This is a refresher on searching for LinkedIn profiles via Google (“X-Raying” LinkedIn) and links to a Custom Search Engine for those who don’t want to write complex Boolean Strings. LinkedIn has many public pages that Google indexes: profiles, company pages, job posts, and more. Public member profiles have URLs that include either “/in” or “/pub” after “linkedin.com” – for example, https://ch.linkedin.com/in/sarahsantacroce and https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sarah-santacroce/72/b33/508 To find …
Top 25 Fake Profiles
In this post, I am sharing some observations about the new (and unusual) public LinkedIn pages in the “Title Directory” and ways to discover them by X-Raying. Note: To try out some of the following content and access the right links, it’s best to log out of LinkedIn. The LinkedIn.com home page has links to various directories: It includes a Title …