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 …
A Bit About Bing
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 …
Sourcing Process for Talent Hunters – Nov 23rd
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 …
Lists of Sourcers and Recruiters on Twitter
I used to have a friend who was known for making lists of lists. Here are two lists: 1) “sourcers” lists and 2) “recruiters” lists on twitter (do you have one? do you follow one?): http://twitter.com/animal/sourcers http://twitter.com/braingain/sourcers (this one is mine) http://twitter.com/carolmahoney/sourcers http://twitter.com/carolynkammeyer/recruiters-sourcers http://twitter.com/Craig_Silverman/sourcers http://twitter.com/gutmach/sourcers http://twitter.com/jescobar856/sourcers http://twitter.com/Job_Spot/west-coast-sourcers http://twitter.com/Kristen_Durkin/sourcers http://twitter.com/recruiterdotcom/sourcers http://twitter.com/RecruitingSuite/sourcers-recruiters http://twitter.com/rithesh/sourcers http://twitter.com/206techjobs/recruiters http://twitter.com/abbas25/recruiters http://twitter.com/AbbyDalzell/recruiters http://twitter.com/Acadia4U/recruiters http://twitter.com/alexbreezer/recruiters http://twitter.com/alexlerner/recruiters http://twitter.com/AlexSherstinsky/recruiters http://twitter.com/AllAboutCareers/graduate-recruiters http://twitter.com/almoshttp://twitty/recruiters …
The Guess Function
It’s great to have tools that sort, browse and filter our search results. This saves time – and may allow us to perform more loose searches knowing that we can parse results later and go through them quickly. The best set of free tools I know of, and many of you have heard of it as well, is called Outwit. …
Your Discussion Has Been Moved to Jobs
Many of us would agree that LinkedIn Groups are a great way to post jobs to your target audience. While Discussions allow to include a URL to an outside site or a blog, the Jobs section only allows to post a title and text. If you feel like including the original job post URL, so that candidates can apply on your site, …
Basic Account Shows Extra Information
If you search for people on LinkedIn, it shows the distribution of the results along its search filters such as Industry, Current Company, etc. I like it a lot! I use the feature quite often to select either current or past companies to be from my target company list, to narrow down the search. Here is something I have noticed …
10 Internet Sourcing Myths
Boolean search strings should be very long and complex to work well. There are top 5 (or 10 or 20) Boolean search strings that gurus know of. I would do great if I could find out what those strings are! If I have access to Boolean strings templates all I have to do is add keywords, and the search is …
Future Webinars
Dear All: I am giving a LinkedIn for Sourcing and Recruiting webinar on Friday 9/24. I am preparing a webinar on Bing. If you have any requests or suggestions for future topics (advanced search, Boolean, Deep Web, Semantic, Tools, Twitter, etc.), please leave a comment or send me a note. -Irina P.S. I am available for custom webinars or face to …
Seven Custom Search Engines
Google Custom Search Engines let us hide “unreadable” operators and reuse them. Search engines on Recruiting Blogs, CVFox, Big5Hire, Referyes are all custom search engines or are based on this technology. Custom engines have their tricky side but it’s not too hard to create a basic one. On your control panel, use the sections “sites” and “refinements” to start with, …