A skilled Sourcer knows search principles and techniques and can work in any industry. But at a closer look, each sector has its own advantages and challenges when it comes to sourcing. Few Healthcare professionals are online, even fewer are on LinkedIn, and reaching out is challenging. But in Healthcare, you have sources of potential candidates such as: • …
Hack: Search for Female Names with This CSE
Are you searching for diversity? Using the same “synonyms” trick as described in Hack: Use 500 Keywords, Not 32, on Google, I have created a Custom Search Engine that looks for the 50 most popular women’s names. Add location, title, or skills, and you will get a list of women’s LinkedIn profiles with the required qualities. Example search: python developer bay …
Google CSEs Go Wild with LinkedIn URLs
This post will be of interest to those who use or create Custom Search Engines, in particular, to X-Ray LinkedIn for profiles (and avoid high LinkedIn subscription fees). The post is somewhat technical except for the first few paragraphs. We have a webinar on CSEs if you want to dig deeper into CSEs. You might have noticed that the LinkedIn …
Knowledge Graph Objects in Google CSEs (True Semantic Search!)
As I was finishing the “Hacks” slides for my favorite conference, Sourcing Summit Europe, I stumbled across something I hadn’t seen before. Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs) got a new setting in the control panel: We can now select Knowledge Graph Objects to restrict the search! I was intrigued; David Galley and I spent some time researching what the …
CSEs
Select custom search engines from the drop-down menu to try them out. Read all about CSEs in our book https://www.routledge.com/9780367569686. For a CSE-like search on steroids, try the new X-Ray Tool – Social List (two-day free trial).
The Adventures of X-Ray Are Mysterious
I have “Saved As” my public LinkedIn profile, and it looks like this: This is my “Experience” and “Education.” Nothing much is visible without logging in. A large percentage of profiles look the same. But things are in flux on the web. Google LinkedIn X-Ray is back! Mike Santoro has noticed. We think it is temporary. In his post, Marcel …
Doximity Healthcare Custom Search Engine
Are you curious about Custom Search Engine operators more:pagemap:? The Healthcare site Doximity offers, I think, the richest set of them. Look at the export of a search on Doximity with our tool Social List, based on CSE APIs: Here is the list of operators applicable on a Doximity CSE: more:p:metatags-profile_first_name:$firstname more:p:metatags-profile_last_name:$lastname more:p:metatags-profile_gender:$gender more:p:person-honorificsuffix:$degree more:p:person-jobtitle:$jobtitle more:p:educationalorganization-name:$eduname more:p:profilepage-award:$award more:p:profilepage-affiliation:$affiliation more:p:postaladdress-addresslocality:$city more:p:postaladdress-addressregion:$state …
LinkedIn Hack: Search Past the Present Pair
Guest Post from Talent Sourcer Mike Santoro Perhaps the most famous “pair” in recruiting and sourcing search strategy is finding candidates based on matching their “Current Job Title(s)” at “Current Company(s).” Let’s call this a “Pair of Aces.” In this article, I’m going to show two new ways to search (on LinkedIn and via X-ray) for a NEW search combination …
Finding Contacts via Custom Search Engines
Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs)add much power to Google search. Based on Schema.org object definitions, sites can “tell” Googlebot that they have objects, like a Person object. The definition of a Person has tons of fields, but sites usually implement only some. CSEs can pull sites with “Persons” and narrow down to the presence of some fields or their values. …
The Best of 2021
Thank you for reading my blog! 1,80000 views and counting. 1,600 Recruiters took The CDSP Sourcing Certification Program for Recruiters and Teams. See feedback. 200 researchers bought the one and only book on CSEs – Custom Search – Discover more: 1st Edition. It took a year and 1/2 to write. LinkedIn Operators work in LinkedIn Recruiter Job Title or Company Links (thanks Aaron …