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, …
Cool Advanced Operators on Bing
Bing has very limited documentation at the search site. There’s much more available if you just dig a little deeper. Here is the full operator documentation posted to the Boolean Strings Network, take a look. Here are some examples of using the advanced syntax: Looking for an Email Pattern Searching for Resumes Searching for LinkedIn Profiles (thanks for the hint …
Google Instant Search of Little Benefit to Sourcers, Recruiters
Being a really slow typer I love to be helped. However, I don’t think that recently introduced instant search is likely to become a favorite tool. Here’s just a few reasons: I use Google operators, and if you do, too, you may notice that it’s slower with instant search than without. Just try typing intitle:resume OR inurl:resume with and without instant …
Confidential Resumes
In our practice as recruiters once in a while we look at “confidential” resumes, with the name and the contact info stripped off. If we are curious to find out more about the person, we can try to check the person out on the web, perhaps starting with LinkedIn. Here is a quick example. Let’s look at a resume from …
I Won the #SourceCon Contest
I Won the #SourceCon Contest and will be going to the SourceCon later this month at the Spy Museum in Washington DC! Read more at The #SourceCon Contest Winner is…