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Dear Friends: My life as a Brain Gain Recruiting Partner, Sourcer, Researcher, Recruiter, Trainer, Speaker, Boolean Communities Admin, and Booleanstrings.com blog writer ends in December 2024. It’s been a happy run! I have enjoyed hands-on research, discovering new tips, and sharing them. Still, most of all, I have appreciated making close friends and connections – notably, with my Partners Julia …

The Google URLs have changed for image search; it now has the URL including &udm=2. I have decided to play with the parameter’s value. Playing with the &udm parameter shows interesting search results categories: https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&udm=2 images https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&udm=4 perspectives (!) https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&udm=6 learn (!) https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&udm=7 video (redirects to https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&tbm=vid) https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&udm=12 news (redirects to https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&tbm=nws) https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&udm=14 web, no AI (!) https://www.google.com/search?q=boolean&udm=18 forums I do …

Last week, a colleague messaged me: “Hello Irina! how are you? I just love your GitHub Search tools! it’s awsome! such a gift for the community. I wonder if you can help me with the easiest way to enrich github search results with LinkedIn profiles… LinkedIn URL’s. in bulk.” If you only have a few addresses to check, the old …

I received an invitation to collaborate on “What do you do if you want to break into the job market as an AI career changer? ” on LinkedIn. I did not understand the question but finally looked at the full list of collaborative articles. The AI generating these categories, article titles-questions, and answers outlines has been “creative” over the top! …

From LinkedIn Engineering: “Don’t confuse skills with “that list of skills you entered on your LinkedIn profile”.  We intuit skills from MANY places.  For example, we will give you “credit” for a skill if you: -Have it in your profile some place.  We convert all the text in your whole profile in to one big field behind the scenes and …

Sourcing Software Developers? There is no better place than Github. And our tool, GitHub User Search, is the best tool for finding lists of Developers. I want to tell you how to integrate it into your sourcing process by combining it with LinkedIn. First, search with our tool. The search syntax is complex. But typically, you will only need to …

Guest post from Ashfaq Ahmed. Continuing from my previous post – Death of LinkedIn X-Ray, What next? Before talking about Bigdata concepts, let me demystify a common sourcing myth that is widely prevalent in the industry: “There is no one approach to sourcing. Everyone can have their own strategies/approaches.” If you’d be interested in why such a thought process is prevalent …

Guest post from Ashfaq Ahmed. I got on a call with Irina & David & we discussed how sourcing will be impacted in the Post- X-Ray era. First things first, why were we able to access LinkedIn via Xray before? Because when you’ve logged out from LinkedIn and visited a profile via Google, the profile data was more or less …

The Google advanced search dialog still shows file types: But search using the operator filetype: and keywords no longer works. For example, filetype:xlsx attendees returns all sorts of pages. For now, you can use a workaround: filetype: will still work if your search contains either site: or inurl: operator. We can use them with the minus, essentially excluding nothing, like this: …