Google’s Custom Search Engines (CSEs) can be useful in many ways. They provide a way to hide advanced search operators from your colleagues who are less technically inclined; they don’t bug advanced researchers with annoying Captchas; and they provide some interesting possibilities beyond those of “regular” Google. Unfortunately, currently the “official” limit of the number of the search results in a CSE is …
Google Quick Answers
Many of you are familiar with Google’s operator define, useful for a quick lookup of an unfamiliar term. Unlike other operators, define doesn’t need a colon after it; here is an example: define SEO. Google includes a link along with the definition if there’s one specific website it “thinks” provides the best answer. If you are searching for something common, such as Engineering, it provides a …
Five Sourcing Tips I Learned From Others
Once in a while I run into a post outlining a sourcing tip that I didn’t know about, or hear a new tip in conversations. Today I’d like to point to some of those tips and thank my colleagues for sharing them. 1) The Facebook #Sourcing Tutorial by Balazs Paroczay . It’s not “just” a tip but a whole methodology of constructing Facebook Graph searches. Once …
Sourcing Certification EXAM Demo Sessions
Are you interested in joining the ranks of Certified Sourcing Professionals in 2014? Our final Sourcing Certification Exam period this year is coming up during the week of December 8, 2014. How do you decide whether you are ready to take the Exam? In brief: to pass the Exam requires good knowledge of Googling and Sourcing on Social Sites; familiarity with some productivity tools; and the ability …
Source Code Search Engines
As a follow-up to a previous post Sourcing Developers in [software] Source Code, I’d like to go over some alternatives to “plain” X-Raying for searching open source code. Google used to have advanced search that “understood” regular expressions for https://code.google.com/ but it was shut down in 2012. At this time the most advanced search you can do there is to search the Google-hosted code …
LinkedIn Basic Search is Galene – LIR Search is Lucene
It was comforting for some LinkedIn Recruiter users to hear about the search results discrepancies, shared previously in the posts Discrepancies in Search: LinkedIn Recruiter vs. Personal LinkedIn Basic Search is Semantic – LIR Search is NOT. Here is some feedback I got: “GREAT GREAT GREAT article on the discrepancies in search (LIR vs Personal LinkedIn). A few colleagues and I …
One More Sourcing Challenge (Advanced!)
I received over 20 responses for the #HIREConf Sourcing Challenge in one day. Most participants sent me the right answer; well done! I now have a correct answer for each of the two great prizes. So that search is over. Here’s an additional Advanced Advanced Challenge, for which I am adding two prizes of the same kind: a Special Guest Pass to HIREConf and a …
#HIREConf Sourcing Challenge
(Wherever you live, if you enjoy solving fun Sourcing Challenges, don’t miss the one below.) If you are a Recruiter in the San Francisco Bay Area: If you can make it, I’d be glad to meet live at the upcoming HIREconf, a full day conference with training and talks focused on Sourcing and Recruiting in highly competitive markets. It’s coming up on …
Sourcing without LinkedIn: Wed Oct 29, 2014
The most popular Recruiting/Sourcing webinar of 2014, Sourcing without LinkedIn, is coming to a computer near you on Wednesday October 29. Pretty much all of us extensively use LinkedIn as the top site for Sourcing, and rightly so. I use it quite a bit myself! However: “Everyone is searching for the same person” It’s expensive It takes away functionality without notice (most …
Social Emailing: Networks Comparison
Back in 2009 I published a post on ERE.net “Call or Email or Use Social Media?” The post was about reaching out to potential candidates, or to business prospects, using Social Networks. While some of the technical details are, of course, outdated 5 years later, the idea remains – and you can do MUCH more now than back then. I’d like …