LinkedIn Contacts Is Not for Adding Connections

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Before you look into the new LinkedIn Contacts you might think that it’s designed for LinkedIn members to bring in their friends and connections from other networks and invite them to connect. But, while the LinkedIn Contacts have amazing functionality (seriously), this is not what they are for. Surprised? Take a look at the screenshot below. The grayed out “in” buttons …

The Entelo Button

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Entelo is one of the top, established Dream Software players, aggregating profiles from all over the social web and allowing us to search across the database of the aggregated profiles. As the rest of the current players, TalentBin, Dice Open Web (formerly theSocialCV), Gild, RemarkableHire, and Swooptalent, to name a few, Entelo is solving the challenging task of combining the data for the …

Sourcing Mini-Challenge: 3 Mysterious Screenshots

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Hi Everyone, If you feel like hanging out by the computer a little longer, here’s a little 3-part summer fun Sourcing Challenge for you.  I have used my “Contacts” on LinkedIn for the screenshots below. CONTEST: For each of the screenshots, please explain: A) what sort order was selected. B) why the search has brought up these results. (1) (2) (3)  …

#Tip: Searching Internationally

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I’d like to share a tip on how to narrow your search down to the profiles of professionals in a given country. My examples will be LinkedIn-X-ray-based, but these are applicable to other types of searches. Some Americans may not even know that, but outside of the US Google offer to narrow the searches down to the pages in the local …

There’s No AND

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Fellow colleagues who work on perfecting your command of the search syntax on Google. Here’s something I’d like to make more visible. Google does not support the AND operator. It is not listed in its help. It would not make a difference if you include it in your search with any sort of capitalization: and, AND, or ANd. Here’s an …

People Sourcing Certification Program Update

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June 14, 2013 For those of you who have been interested in the People Sourcing Certification Program, but haven’t taken the class yet, here is an update. (If you are interested in listening to a shorter prerecorded webinar, take a look at the Training Library. If you would only like to read my posts on sourcing for now, please step back to …

LinkedIn Contacts Have Just Doubled For You

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The new LinkedIn Contacts feature is buggy but it’s opening up incredible people sourcing possibilities. The terminology “contacts” and “connections” may be somewhat confusing. The all-new LinkedIn Contacts system allows LinkedIn members to merge the information about their contacts on several systems: 1) LinkedIn itself, 2) Gmail, 3) Yahoo mail, 4) Outlook, and several more sources. Here’s why this is …

Amazing! Search for Symbols in the New Contacts

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The new LinkedIn Contacts functionality is simply amazing! It opens up never-before possible people sourcing explorations, and is available (albeit still very buggy) for all personal accounts, whether paid or basic. The syncing with other accounts possibility is quite like the Talent Pipeline in some ways. (More about it later). For starters, you can search for sub-strings and even for …

Hidden Names Discovery

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Shane Bowen‘s tool for figuring out hidden names is great, as everything on his blog! I recommend to follow the blog. By now we have shared a number of other quick ways to figure out the hidden names with each other. You can still export a third level connection’s profile into PDF format and click the link, found in the …

Search for Everyone in Europe

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This seems to be a frequently asked question: how to search for people in Europe using LinkedIn? I have decided to share my suggestions on the blog. To search for people in Europe (or anywhere across a large territory), you can do a radius search around a (sort-of) a center point in Europe and cover many countries at once. I …