Last week at the Sourcing Summit UK (a wonderful, content-rich event that I loved being part of), Karen Azulai predicted that hands-on search is going away. (I know that Karen is an expert in HRTech and her point of view is well backed-up with her knowledge.) Johnny Campbell presented an interesting overview of the dynamics of Sourcing over the years and shared some …
New Email Extractor/Collector
I want to let you know about the new free Chrome extension that we have developed. The extension has two modes. In one, it collects all emails on a page, including hidden emails (hyperlinks). There are other extensions with the same functionality – however, ours has a superior formula for extracting emails and does a better job than others. You will …
Create Search Alerts via IFTTT and RSS feeds
One of my favorite applications for social media monitoring is IFTTT. The tool has “triggers,” fired when something happens, and “actions,” that are executed if triggers happen, by the rules that we can define. IFTTT offers RSS triggers: As an action for an RSS IFTTT trigger, we can, for example, send ourselves an email, or save the item in Evernote, …
Watch a Social List Video
Social List is a powerful yet simple to use sourcing tool. With Social List, you can: Find precisely targeted social profiles from a number of networks, including LinkedIn Populate the records with email addresses, and Export the results in an Excel format – all this in a matter of seconds and without needing any advanced Boolean syntax commands. Please watch …
Improve Your Writing Using Google Suggestions
These two simple methods for raising SEO of your pages also help to improve the readability and the writing style. 1. In your writing, use the words appearing in Google Suggestions. You will see some phrases as soon as you start typing your query in Google. For example, here is what Google shows in response to “sourcing training”. If you …
Sourcing Training
Recruiters: want to become better Talent Sourcers? We are the Sourcing Training and Certification providers and have developed a large number of training courses for Recruitment professionals and all interested. The sourcing training materials and webinars that we offer cover every topic in-depth. For the fans of Boolean training – we have the largest set of classes covering the favorite topic. …
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Know About This…
We have recently discussed how to identify the LinkedIn profile from an email address and how to find Twitter profiles from a list of email addresses. What’s next? It’s Facebook! Here is how to find the Facebook profiles from a list of email addresses. This technique is especially useful now that Facebook has stopped showing profiles behind email addresses entered …
How to Find the Twitter ID from an Email Address
[Edited: the below no longer works. I do not know of a sure way to find a Twitter account by email. However, I do know how to find an account on LinkedIn – for long lists of emails at a time – check it out!] I will continue “the series” by explaining how to find the Twitter ID from an …
NEW! Social List Trial and Enrichment
I’d like to share some good news about Social List. As of now, you can register to use the site – no credit card required. Your trial will last seven days. With the new release of Social List, we have added the most requested feature: enriching the results with contact email addresses. Enrichment works on LinkedIn Agents. Here is a …
Two Timeless Lessons in Sourcing (UK)
This is a guest post from Martin Lee. Back in 1999 when I started my career in this business as an IT “new business” contract recruiter, we used search software called ISYS. I had to make maybe a 100 cold calls to generate one live requirement; I wasn’t the best sales guy. Needless to say, when I got a requirement …