It is new – Google Image search responds to the filetype: operator for document types such as PDF, DOCX, or PPTX. security conference attendee list director vp filetype:pdf This is cool because Images is a separate database – its results ranking is different, and extra results may surface. And you can preview the images before opening the results. It is …
Check Your Assumptions for LinkedIn Connections’ Search
LinkedIn connections and connection levels are as old as LinkedIn itself. The underlying idea of the Social Network is based on connections! You would think that LinkedIn (founded in 2002) has figured out the search for connection levels by now. But if you trust connection search – for example, routinely search for the second level members to connect with – …
Custom Search Engines’ Filters – Gitlab Example
Gitlab, like Github, is a platform providing a Version Control System, allowing Developers to collaborate on writing code. It claims to have 30+ MLN profiles, quite comparable to Github’s 60+ MLN. There are some differences in functionality and user profiles. (If you source for Developers, the below search syntax examples might help in finding results – scroll down to see …
Search in Business vs. Recruiter (Guess Who Wins)
[Edited June 26, 2021: alas, the operators are gone for now. I hope they will be back! Our class LinkedIn [Sourcing] Solved fully reflects the change.] The never-documented LinkedIn search operators make people search with a personal account – Business, Job Seeker, and Basic – comparable or better than the most expensive subscription, LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR). Let’s go over a comparison, …
10 Alternatives to InMail
You can reach prospects who ignore your LinkedIn InMails in at least ten different ways. I am sure you familiar with some. How many of the following methods do you use in practice? (Please feel free to comment.) Email. If an email address is associated with a LinkedIn profile, your message will land in the same email Inbox as an …
Google and LinkedIn Speak Different Boolean
Google and LinkedIn are two sites where sourcers spend most of their time. Both support Boolean search. Yet it works in very different ways. For starters, The search is not really Boolean (we can call it pseudo-Boolean). Google finds synonyms to all terms entered without quotation marks. A search like backend java engineer -engineer returns results while “formally” it should …
Diversity Filter Coverage – Women’s Names
Diversity Sourcing is not easy. There is no clear way to search for diversity categories on social sites or Google. Our less-than-perfect but necessary approach consists of “shortcuts” – ways to search that are likely to bring up groups of potential diversity candidates. As an example, Jonathan Kidder has a collection of diversity Boolean strings. Glen Cathey’s blog offers quite a …
LinkedIn Search Solved
Searching for professionals on LinkedIn.com? At this time, business and personal users have the most powerful – but not officially documented – search ways and filters and cross-referencing ability, exceeding (the expensive) Recruiter’s. You can search for unique filters such as headlines and self-entered skills, and combine other filters such as company size, type, years of experience, or at school …
Search for Group Members (to Message)
LinkedIn used to limit messages to your Group members to 15 per month. This restriction is gone. If you have a basic or business account, you can message fellow group members without restrictions. However, Group member search only offers finding people by name. How do you find group members who match a professional requirement? Here is a way I came …
Be Negative. Find More
Can being “negative” help in sourcing? I do not mean to suggest that you will source better results when you are in a bad mood, voice dissatisfaction, or upset others. This is an essay on the Boolean “NOT” logic. When searching, the productive approach we teach is to imagine the “right” terms you will find and put those terms and …