Twitter for Sourcing, Recruiting & Marketing – Thursday, June 24 – 1:00 PM ET

How do you find someone’s email address? Using the symbol @ in searches on Google is useless since it’s ignored along with most of the special characters. We know ways to figure out a company email pattern via clever Google searches using the asterisk * (ask Gary Cozin ). Unfortunately, our methods may not work in some cases. Besides, some companies, …

žWhy we must use the Internet to source candidates: To use its vast resources and get ahead of the competition To find candidates that we would not find otherwise To communicate with potential candidates in a network context To cross-reference  prospects so that we are on the phone with the right people

Here is a cool blog post contest. Post a blog (anywhere) with an estimate of the number of resumes on the Internet and win a ticket to #TRUsource in Atlanta. Please email Geoff Webb at [email protected] with a reference to your post; please also share on the Boolean Strings network. Also, to help get this off the ground, I am …

For many of us, Deep Web means pages that Google – or any other search engine – can’t find. This is almost true, but not exactly true. Deep web consists of  dynamic links, password-protected sites, pages with no links leading to them, and a few other kinds of “hidden” pages. It turns out (and you may have experienced that) that …

Many of us X-ray LinkedIn from Google. If we are looking for profiles with certain keywords, we use the string site:linkedin.com inurl:in OR inurl:pub -inurl:dir -inurl:jobs <your keywords here> … Strangely though, Google forgets to add many words that belong to all LinkedIn profiles as keywords. If you search for “Public profile powered by”, industry, connections, current, past, etc., Google …

If a LinkedIn member wishes not to have a public profile, LinkedIn promptly removes the info from the Web. However, did you know that what you see marked as private profiles in search results has nothing to do with personal privacy settings? The majority of LinkedIn profiles are public and can be viewed – without upgrading your account. Come to my …

When you use people search on LinkedIn, sometimes you see the “Out of your network” note (as seen on the left here) and at other times you see that the profile is Private. In both cases LinkedIn suggests that you should upgrade your account to see more. Though Glen Cathey posted an excellent exploration of  “private” profiles a while ago, …

Searching on LinkedIn without any keywords will show some statistics about your current connections. I have looked at mine and here are some numbers that I find interesting – and relevant to the profile of my company, Brain Gain Recruiting. I wonder if others with large networks would have similar distribution – if you take a look, let me know. Location: …

Semantic search for recruiters, ideally, would let us enter a job description and get lists of matching candidates. Here are some sample approaches that either have been implemented in new semantic search tools for recruiters or can be accomplished through search engines like Google (learn more by getting my Google DVD). Word proximity. If the work managed in near the …