Up until recently, search results in LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) and in (any) personal account were the same. LIR provides more results available for viewing for a given search and better results visibility (and also some facets that are not available in a personal search). This has changed dramatically. If you have a LinkedIn Recruiter account, you must read on. Here are three examples of searches, …

(“Part One” briefly outlines some background. If you are only interested in “how-to”, please jump to the “Part Two” below. Please note, that I think that inviting others for no good reason is NOT appropriate.) Part One. Reasons to Connect LinkedIn is a business networking site, where people can “connect” with each other. Connecting provides for ways to keep each other’s contact info; …

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass   A definition of a term works, if the majority of practitioners agree to it. It’s quite remarkable, that with Sourcing becoming hugely popular and necessary, we still lack …

  Suppose you are determined to find someone’s email address. With the new LinkedIn InMail policy, some say, this may happen in their practice more often. The post below outlines top eight ways to figure that email address out, starting with a list of guesses. Before we go there: as the creator of one of the most popular email-finding techniques Rob Ousbey …

  Don’t miss it! The new webinar is an in-depth look at the challenge common to Sourcing, Recruiting, and Sales professionals: creating lists of professionals based on certain criteria. Register here: Top 7 Techniques for Name Generation Whether you work in Staffing or Sales, the unique presentation will provide proven practical tips and tools for identifying and verifying lists of professional contacts. Be sure to …

[Edited: The below no longer works but you will find some other interesting content here on the blog – for example, Facebook Photo Discoveries.] Some recruiters message potential candidates on Facebook and find success in that. Perhaps it depends on the location and the type of a job, whether this would be seen as a good channel to strike a conversation on …

I was surprised that the new LinkedIn Export function got so little attention – and barely any comments on top of repeating the facts – in blogs and on Twitter. LinkedIn Export is, in fact, a big deal! Why? Well, up until now, LinkedIn has been expanding its import capabilities, providing Contacts in the personal accounts with a wide variety of …

If in your search results you have encountered a profile that has as little as this information…   … the standard X-Raying LinkedIn is not going to be too helpful when trying to find the public profile: “Hospital & Health Care Professional” “Phoenix, Arizona Area” site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -dir  returns too many results! There’s a simple way around the lack of …

For those of us who have the expensive LinkedIn Recruiter license (I have it too), there’s a danger of spending all of the sourcing time with the “paid” search capabilities, while missing some ways to search, that are not as “mainstream”, could provide the desirable additional results and make us more competitive! Last week I we held the Powerful Sourcing Contest asking for three searches on LinkedIn …