Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: [This webinar is over and was well attended and appreciated. I will be repeating it in 2 weeks from now. Interested? Send me a note.] 88% of recruiters search for candidates on LinkedIn. Yet many of us would do much better, find more candidates and contact the right candidates if we …

I think Boolean syntax seems hard partially because many people still try to use English to talk with search engines, while software only understands the exact syntax it is programmed to understand. As an example, whether a particular operator works or not on Google is not a matter of someone’s experience or opinion, it is either true or false, such …

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The first step in Sourcing Candidates is research. We can’t just jump to write Boolean strings or to call prospective candidates before we understand the essentials about a job requisition. Though we may be pressed for time, this stage is critical to our sourcing success. We talk to the hiring manager, the team, perhaps ask for an example of on-target resumes – and …

For those who are wondering what is happening with the Yahoo-Bing deal, here’s an update. We all know that Yahoo will power its search by the Bing algorithm – all over the world – soon. How does the transfer happen? It’s not that the Yahoo syntax will “gradually” be moved to the Bing’s syntax, adding Bing special search operators and removing Yahoo …

For those of you lucky folks who are using LinkedIn Recruiter this wouldn’t be a surprise – but I haven’t tried the service up till this weekend, when I was looking at a client’s search together with the client who has this type of account. Here is what I’ve observed. With all the industrial strength search and ability to send dozens of …

Space is limited. The last webinar was sold out. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/376559882 This webinar is for Boolean “beginners”, beginner-to-intermediate level sourcers, “old-school” recruiters wanting to jump on the web sourcing bandwagon, and for those who use the web for sourcing but are questioning whether they are using the best available tools in the best possible ways. …

If you have a basic LinkedIn account, chances are that you keep running into those “private” and “out-of-network” profiles – as on the screenshot above – with no names, just the titles. We’ve discussed before that one can try and find the hidden name by pasting a sentence or two from the profile into Google with the hopes of finding …

Whenever you need to search for something it helps to imagine what you will see on the actual pages that the search engine will include in the results. Let’s design Boolean strings to look for lists with email addresses and possibly phone numbers. We would be looking for Excel or PDF files, or maybe CSV, or Doc, or html; thus, …

If you are just getting your feet wet with Boolean Strings search, there’s one easy way to get into deeper searching but keep a bit of the syntax (the site: operator) hidden, and move on when you feel more comfortable. I am talking about Google’s Custom Search on the fly You will still have to remember to use minus (-) as “NOT”, …