Thanks to Balazs Paroczay, one of the top sourcers on the Boolean Strings Group, we have learned that we can now search for LinkedIn group members from Google using the word “logo”. Here’s a sample string Balazs has suggested. This will work with groups that used to be quite impossible to X-ray because of their non-unique group names. As an …
Excel in Sourcing and Recruiting
Really good hands-on sourcers rarely try to create “perfect” search strings so that they would only show relevant results or would cover all of the relevant results. While it’s a nice search exercise, the truth is that it is quite often not possible and is not our goal. What matters is not the search string, but the “top” results that makes …
#Sourcing #Contest!
Hi All, Have you ever participated in a sourcing contest? Want to try it? It’s a lot of fun! Here you go: I have a former classmate who has moved to the UK and is a beginner sourcer. The guy is pretty shy and, though he has joined Twitter, LinkedIn, and has even tried to start blogging, he still needs …
The Rumor on Sending Messages On #LinkedIn
Can you still send a message to any group member on LinkedIn, no matter what the type of your account is and whether the person is your 2nd or 3rd level connection? The answer is YES; so far you still can. Want to know how? Read on. When we search for people, we used to see the “send message” link …
10+ Changes on #LinkedIn and What They Mean to You – Webinar
[The webinar is over. Please check the Downloads section for available training materials, or let me know if you’d want to arrange training on related topics.] LinkedIn is a fantastic resource for finding candidates, referrals, jobs, new business, and making your business known. It is not a smooth ride for us since LinkedIn keeps changing in all sorts of ways. Information …
7 #LinkedIn Changes and Sending Messages
Life is not boring if you are a sourcer or a recruiter and use LinkedIn; most of us do. Here is a brief list of several major recent changes on LinkedIn that affect our work for sure. Please feel free to add to this in the comments. Company search. We have many “facets” to search for available in the newly implemented …
The Sourcer Starter Set
[Sorry – this offering has been discontinued; check the download page for available materials] While I can’t possibly support hundreds of people who requested the “top 25 search strings”, here I am offering affordable support and advice. The list of strings alone may not be that helpful; it doesn’t contain instructions as to how to use it. Here is a …
Use Boolean on Google? Check This Out
Let me get straight to the point. It seems like the Boolean operator AND – that is supposed to be implied – now does make a difference on Google. Compare, for example, digital AND games AND advertising Nyc | new-york “account manager ” intitle:resume OR inurl:resume -jobs with digital games AND advertising Nyc | new-york “account manager ” intitle:resume OR …
Webinar: How to Customize the Top 25 Boolean Strings
Join us for a Webinar on March 9 [The webinar is over. Please check the Downloads section for available training materials, or let me know if you’d want to arrange training on related topics.] Jump-start your sourcing capabilities and reach.Lists of Boolean strings and templates can help recruiters, sourcers, and hiring managers who know how to customize them for their own use. …
X-Raying LinkedIn May Be Coming to an End
(For those not familiar with the terminology, X-ray means using the operator site: on Google or on Bing/Yahoo.) Search for profiles on LinkedIn by using X-ray has been one of the favorite sourcing techniques. The reason why this has been possible is that LinkedIn allowed its members to have “public profiles” with quite a bit of info, visible to search engines. You …