Facebook Graph Search – New Tips

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  Here is a new site helping with the Facebook graph search queries – Who Posted What (Idea by Henk van Ess, Developed by Daniel Endresz,) The site (still in Beta) offers to search for comments by a user with a given keyword or posted within a certain date range. The Facebook ID that is required can be easily found via https://findmyfbid.com/. Apparently, the template string …

Five Hidden Google Operators

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Many Sourcers know that adding “&filter=0” to the search URL would “tell” Google to “search with omitted results included”. There are several other ways to control search results that cannot be expressed through the Google advanced search operators. These include: narrow to a language – set in the Advanced Search Dialog narrow to a country – set in the Advanced Search …

The Full List of Google Advanced Search Operators

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  Operator Meaning Pages containing keywords in: allinurl: / inurl: – the URL allintitle: / intitle: – the Title allintext: / intext: – the text allinanchor:  /  inanchor: – the anchor text filetype: – file types site: Narrow results to a site related: Shows similar sites info: Shows page info define Gives a definition The quotes (“”) Search for a …

LinkedIn Recruiter: More Confusion

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Remember, LinkedIn Recruiter finds more results when we enter a company name vs. point to a company object? We discussed this in LinkedIn Recruiter: Not WYSIWYG. Well, it turns out that, when searching for job titles, it is the opposite: selecting a value (Software Engineer, in the screenshot) brings many more results than entering the same words in quotation marks – …

Sourcing Training Library and Certifications

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Our Sourcing Certification Program is now in its sixth year. We have had hundreds of professionals enroll in our Subscription and take the Exam. I wanted to update everyone on our offerings. The Training Library has twenty recorded classes, to study at your own pace. The classes cover a variety of sourcing topics in-depth. Some webinars include two sessions, a Lecture, and …

LinkedIn Recruiter: Not WYSIWYG

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Well-designed user interfaces follow the rule of WYSIWYG – “what you see is what you get”. Unfortunately, LinkedIn Recruiter doesn’t do the best job in this regard. Just look at the screenshot of two searches for company=Apple I have done. Which number is correct, on the right or the left? The secret in the two different numbers displayed is that, …

LinkedIn Locations and Traffic in the Bay Area

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The traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I live, is pretty bad. What the commute is like is a serious consideration for anyone looking for a job. Let’s take a look how LinkedIn job posts treat locations – posted and searched for.   LinkedIn has 1) “area” locations and 2) specific cities as locations. The city locations are …

Increasing Candidate’s Response Rates

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This is a guest post from Martin Lee. We can be as creative as we like with our sourcing, writing killer Boolean strings, utilizing the latest tools and unearthing profiles that others wouldn’t, but without a response from prospective candidates we have only done 50% of what is required. According to a number of sources the average user spends 17 …

Learn to Search for Diversity

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We know that diversity in the workplace positively affects outcomes. Including a diverse pool of candidates in the talent  pipeline is a must for any forward-thinking recruiter and hiring manager. When we search for diversity candidates, the same sourcing principles apply, as always – look for “what you are going to find”, “visualize success”. Here are some diversity Boolean search …

Six Free Boolean Strings from e-Book

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I am excited to announce that the 3rd edition of the e-Book “300 Best Boolean Strings” has been released. To prepare the new edition, I went through the 300 strings in the previous version and removed about sixty that were no longer working. I also dug into my Google search history and added multiple strings to the book. I got …