The number of  “search facets” on LinkedIn’s advanced people search dialog goes up with the level of the account. But even “LinkedIn Recruiter” subscribers – those who have the maximum search power within LinkedIn – can’t search for some profile data. For data that can only be viewed by LinkedIn members, like files attached to profiles or a Twitter ID, we …

  Announcing a Sourcing Contest/Quiz. (It’s not easy!) Please post your answers as replies to this post. Replying only to some questions, and replying several times is allowed. Repeating someone’s correct answer is fine but will score lower, unless you add some nice explanations or examples. (So the sooner you get some answers in, the more advantage you have!) Repeating …

[the slides, the handouts for this webinar, and a video recording are available (for a limited time) for $79; one-month support is included] The class is for those who search for people (candidates, business connections) on the Internet. Who would benefit: sourcers, recruiters, human resources professionals, hiring managers, sales, marketing, and business development professionals;  all those who would like to experience …

Searching for Google-plus profiles is no problem at all, whether you are already on Google-Plus or not. Here’s a direct link to a sample search: Search for people on Google-Plus – and please compare this with Search for Google Profiles See the difference? I have changed just one symbol in the search URL. The latter search returns both Google profiles and …

To learn more about LinkedIn from this post, simply start at the home page. Log out of LinkedIn and you will then see some extra links of interest at the bottom of the page. I already wrote about the LinkedIn titles in a recent post. The Title Directory provided on the LinkedIn home page doesn’t have the search function, but you can navigate using searches like this. Another welcome …

BeKnown is good news! There are lots of posts out there with facts and screen shots, so I skip that. Here some initial thoughts. 1) It’s fantastic to see potential competition to LinkedIn; Moster has been one of the few big players capable of that. LinkedIn’s quality has been hurt by not having competitors. Maybe LinkedIn will now do some …

Hi All: Here’s my business partner’s Julia Tverskaya‘s entry for the SourceCon challenge. Julia and I have been Partners at Brain Gain Recruiting for 6+ years- and I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. Julia is also (like me) a former Software Development Manager and (unlike me) a Chess Master. Please check it out and vote for her: CSE Challenge — …

This is recent: LinkedIn has exposed more of its data to search engines than before, thus allowing us to do some people search using X-ray (i.e. the operator site:). I am talking about a large set of data below the URL “linkedin.com/title” (please note: “title” here is simply part of the URL – not an operator or a keyword). To …

Here’s a new Custom Search Engine for you! 🙂 Hidden Resumes