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  I have a demanding client who keeps sending me challenging sourcing requests, needing more than Boolean Search in LinkedIn Recruiter can achieve. (I love those.) Her last three requests have been – all in Europe – to find: Frontend Developers who have LinkedIn recommendations. Backend Developers who used to work as Research Assistants and have good grades (like “cum …

Only recently (I think) have we realized that our paths cross. Both Sourcers (and Recruiters who source) and OSINT professionals collect and examine online data, cross-reference sources, use Google and reverse image search, and more. The main difference appears to be the following: Recruiters search for all people matching a requirement OSINT specialists search for a person of interest and …

[Edited Dec 8th: it is back working! And the search right now is truly Boolean. Enjoy while it lasts!] The field of LinkedIn.com search is currently, unfortunately, full of bugs. Following up on and expanding my last post, here are some observations. Often, results do not include some or all of the 3rd level connections. It seems random to me; …

Searching on LinkedIn costs many Recruiters low self-esteem. When you see results you did not expect, you may blame yourself for searching “the wrong way.” But it is rarely the case. What has been happening on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) lately is beyond my (reasonably high) IQ. Let us compare some searches on LinkedIn.com and in LIR. We vaguely …

  Research is a vital part of executive search. You need to be knowledgeable about the industry, the candidate’s background, and the role at your company. You need to find their contact info. Here are some resources to help you with gathering intelligence. This document has ~4K consultants’ contacts and a comprehensive overview of consulting companies Cxoreach.com is a scrapable database …

Successful Sourcers know the main – secret! – principle of productive search: “Imagine the words and phrases exactly as they should appear in the target results. Then, use those words and phrases in your search”. We also call it “Visualize Success”. Rarely do Recruiters get training in the “Visualize Success” skill, yet it is the #1 factor in finding target …

As Sourcers, we have to work with exported data. LinkedIn Recruiter, Instant Data Scraper, and other scraping tools provide export to CSV with the wrong coding, that may look like this: Looks familiar? Here is how to straighten it out (thanks to David Galley for the tip!) Step 1. Open a new Excel file and choose Data/From Text/CSV: Upload the …

I recently gave a private training which included an overview of cultural differences. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I moved to the US from Russia in 1991, having received a three-month contract as a Mac Developer at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. They converted it to a full-time position midway and helped me obtain a Green Card, at …

Speakers and Sourcers David Galley (US) Glenn Gutmacher (US) Aaron Lintz (US) Andre Bradshaw (US) Glen Cathey (US) Guillaume Alexandre (France) Victor Soroka (Ukraine) Balazs Paroczay (Hungary) Hung Lee (UK) Vanessa Raath (South Africa) Josef Kadlec (Czech Republic) Юлия Кузмане (Russia) Bas Westland (Netherlands) Marcel Van Der Meer (Netherlands) Best sourcing conference by Phil Tusing – Sourcing Summit https://sourcingsummit.net/sosutech/register/#av-layout-grid-1 Best …