Join us for a Webinar on 2/4 Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now.[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.] Boolean Basics and Beyond. Get up-to-date on your search skills! The webinar is for beginner-to-intermediate level users of Internet searches. I will cover …

Most of us have target companies in mind when we search. For some of our jobs at Brain Gain Recruiting the target companies are the “Big 4” and other large consulting companies. LinkedIn conveniently offers us to search by past or by present companies. If you start typing a company name in the advanced people search dialog, it prompts for …

I am excited to be  a track leader and teach sourcing mastery at my second #trulondon event hosted by the wonderful Bill Boorman, the true leader of recruiting unconferences. The last #trulondon was, perhaps, the most content-rich event I had ever been to; was it in spite or because of the lack of preparations, presentations, and slides? The days were …

Imagine that you could get the magical core list of search strings somewhere and just keep using them… The truth is, there isn’t one. Pre-built sets of strings are good as examples but that’s it. Every search is unique, and the info out there gets updates continuously, so you need your own strings. I was glad to hear at a recent …

I am forming two Boolean Sourcing Mastery Classes, for people who would like to bring their Internet Search skills to a true Boolean Master’s level: Boolean Mastery Class Level I (Beginner-to-Intermediate level), Boolean Mastery Class Level II (Intermediate-to-Advanced level). Each group will meet by webinar, twice monthly, 90 minutes each, for a total of twelve sessions. Sessions will start mid-January …

Thanks to heads-up from @SourceConNews I took a look at the Kryptos Challenge and spent a bit of time trying to figure it out. Challenges are addictive! 🙂 I have no knowledge of cryptography. But the author, Jim Sanborn, has just revealed a clue, and (who knows) maybe it’s not too hard now. The way I see it, the K4 challenge has two sides. First …

When we try to find the right candidates, or the right people for our business needs, we usually have to work with search engines and databases that do not quite speak our language. We write something as cryptic as inurl:resume or filetype:pdf (what does this have to do with my job description?). To make our search tuned to the meaning …

With Google thinking that we are all bots and Yahoo.com now being an alternative user interface to the Bing search engine, many of us have turned to Bing in the hopes of having a satisfying search experience. The Bing team doesn’t make it easy to figure out what the Bing Query language is like. There are two key documents, as …

This webinar will be useful for all talent hunters: sourcers and recruiters from corporations, agencies, and those who work individually. [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.] Carson’s Law: It’s better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick. Would you like …