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. …
How to Find the Hidden Person’s Name
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 …
How to Write Strings to Find Email Lists
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, …
How to Avoid Using Boolean Operators
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”, …
Ten People Search Engines
Ten People Search Engines… and Two Custom Engines Which people search engines do you use? The first four in the list below are my favorites. One extra criteria for me, in addition to getting good info, is convenient and friendly user interface. ZoomInfo Jigsaw Pipl Tweepz (for Twitter) www.peekyou.com http://wink.com www.123people.com www.zabasearch.com http://people.yahoo.com www.spokeo.com I also X-ray spoke.com, looking for email addresses, …
Search Strings That Do Not Work
The main reason why Boolean search strings don’t work is syntax errors – that are, in fact, easy to fix. Google, Yahoo, Bing, LinkedIn are very picky about the ways we express what we are looking for – but it’s not hard to adjust to ways they want us to talk to them. Let’s take a look at some examples …
Control Google Search Results via the URL
Google allows us to keep the preferences for the number of the results per page, but there are no user-friendly ways to keep some other favorite options. One way to do that is through the URL of the search page. It may look cryptic at first but let’s be brave and try to alter the URL and see how it affects …
List of 24 Large Corporations Interested in Sourcing
Resumes and interviews have not changed a whole lot, but sourcing has, and there’s a big need for recruiters to get up to speed. I believe that all companies, especially large corporations, need either to help recruiters to learn web sourcing skills, or hire sourcers, or do both. If you “post and prey” you might still be just fine but …
Trust and Privacy on LinkedIn
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How to Find Candidates Using the Internet (an Overview)
Join us for a Webinar on July 16th (Friday). Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/303840850 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 …