Google search usually works fine to respond to most short queries or questions, if the online information exists. Specifically, Googling can provide suggestions for software tools. Just Google productivity Chrome extensions or lead generation tools to see some suggestions in these tools’ categories. Tip: Google two or three names of similar tools to land on blogs with tools reviews and to learn about other …
LinkedIn Search Results Unblurring Tool
If you have hit the new Commercial Use Limit on Search on LinkedIn, your search results screen will look like this – the first few results are shown and the rest are blurred: Amazingly, the “commercial” search limit affects even the search for your first level connections! (If you have a basic or a job seeker account and are doing lots of searching, but don’t see …
Well-Hidden Secret: LIR “Hiring Manager”
If at least one of your colleagues has access to LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR), you can take advantage of that for sourcing and searching. Team members and collaborators can re-use another member’s LIR subscription and perform unlimited searches – without breaking any rules. The key is to use the little-known “Hiring Manager” add-on functionality. Let me show you how. I have access to LIR, but was not aware …
Maximize ROI on LinkedIn – Webinar Thu Feb 12, 2015 (NEW DATE!)
LinkedIn is the No. 1 Social Network used by Recruiters and Sourcers around the world, with no competition in sight. It may seem that, with the major new restrictions on searching and on InMails, you have to go for a premium account or even get Recruiter seats for everyone on your team. The decisions are yours; I am going to help …
13+ Tools: Profiles from Emails, Emails from Profiles
Finding someone’s email address, starting from a social profile (such as a LinkedIn profile), and finding social profiles, starting from an email address, are two kinds of top-requested productivity tools for Sourcers, Recruiters, Sales Professionals, and Social Media Marketers these days, for many good reasons, such as the new rigid limitations for both searching for professionals and for sending InMails on …
Never Stop Searching LinkedIn
Due to the just-introduced Commercial Use Limit on Search, many LinkedIn members are hitting the search quota for the month in the first day or two of January 2015 – and have to wait another month to search again. LinkedIn didn’t say how many searches are “too many”; the experience shows it’s around sixty searches for one month. I find limiting the search …
How to Always Show Dates in Google Search Results
Would you like to see the dates of the search results on Google? By all means, it’s a useful piece of information. If you narrow a Google search to (any) date range, using the drop-down selection for the date range, the dates are shown. You can then also choose to sort by date if you wanted, to see the most recent results first. When a date …
Work Around New LinkedIn InMail Policy in 2015
In a few days from now LinkedIn is switching to taking away the InMail points for those InMails that were not answered. There has been lots of negative reaction to the change, and rightly so. Sure, if an InMail is spam, the recipient may not answer it. But the opposite is not true: if someone doesn’t answer the InMail, it doesn’t mean that the InMail …
Ten Favorite Tools Shared at Sourcing Chats in 2014
In 2014, our LinkedIn group – by far, the largest global community of people who are interested in Sourcing – reached 28K Members and the Boolean Strings Ning Network reached 7K members. Thanks to all for participating and sharing great content- and Happy Holidays! The Bi-Weekly Sourcing Chats on the Ning Network, moderated by Master Sourcer David Galley, have been well attended in 2014 and always had great …
Stop Using Boolean OR on Google
Here is the description of the Boolean operator OR from the Google’s help: OR: If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include OR (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. Example: world cup location 2014 OR 2018 Many researchers routinely use the operator …