Lippl is a new tool not to be missed. It’s an easy-to-use Chrome extension that allows you to view anyone’s public LinkedIn profile. It is useful when viewing profiles “far away” in your network: 3rd level if you are a basic members and out-of-network if you are either a basic or a premium member. Press the Open button to see …

It’s a well hidden sourcing secret – I have not heard anyone mention it – but Boolean Search on Facebook is possible. Boolean search is NOT available through the Graph search. Most people think it’s not possible at all, unless you pay for some expensive tools. But it’s possible and, though it’s somewhat limited, there are certainly good practical uses …

Back in December 2013 I posted the tip People You May Not Know about uncovering the hidden names and the full profiles on LinkedIn. It works in 100% cases and is based on saving the profile in question in your contacts. The Contacts provides a goldmine of sourcing functionality; I have written about other creative ways to use them on …

The Contest, sponsored by: – People Sourcing Certification and the People Aggregator HiringSolved – is over! We had over 30 submissions from the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Hungary, Russia, China, and India, with the majority of the participants coming from the US. Here is some selected feedback from those who took part and submitted answers: This was great fun, Irina! I really enjoyed it. …

This week the People Sourcing Certification Program is running the Winter Sale, offering one or two extra webinars to those who purchase the People Sourcing Certification Materials (both level materials offer the best value – that is 18 hours of training!). Check it out! In conjunction with it, we are announcing the Sourcing Contest – #SourcingSolved. Below is a preview for those of …

[LinkedIn bug. InMail doesn’t include your contact details when asked.]   InMails are included in paid LinkedIn accounts, both personal and the LIR (LinkedIn Recruiter). I’ve recently run into InMails working not in the way we’d expect. I sincerely hope that LinkedIn will fix this soon and will update you when they do. I have included two screenshot of composing InMails …

Due to numerous requests, I am repeating the Productivity Tools and Techniques for Sourcing webinar on Thursday January 23rd, 2014. Seating is limited. Join me to get the full coverage of the most important techniques – and over 50 (fifty) tools – for maximizing your Sourcing and Recruiting productivity in 2014. I will show several use case scenarios of combining some easy-to-use tools …

  If we know someone’s name, company, and email format(s) used at the company, chances are that we could construct that business email address. Here are some ways to figure out the email format(s) specific companies are using. 1. Collections of Formats Online collections of corporate email formats have been shared across our groups. I will list some of them …

    Another “back door” to LinkedIn has just been shut, breaking the “PYMK” (people you may know)-based link, breaking the bookmarklet shared on Sourcecon.com, a tool posted on Sourcing Hacks, and the hint in the “Hidden Names Discovery” post. There’s a workaround. Step 1. Save the profile to your contacts: Step 2. Take a look at the newest person in …

As a Dice subscriber, I couldn’t miss the note from Dice CEO Shravan Goli “Dice’s Open Web is coming out of Beta”. Dice’s Open Web technology is one of the pioneers among people aggregators, the new generation sourcing tools, initially developed as theSocialCV. (See more tools in the people aggregator category listed on the Tools page.) Dice certainly showed innovative ways of thinking, being the first job …