As I am running a recruiting project searching for Registered Nurses in NYC and Indianapolis, the main challenge remains. It is finding potential candidates’ contact information or ways to message. Compared, for example, to IT sourcing, I am finding that the Social Media presence of RNs is much lower. However, the web is rich with all sorts of Healthcare-related lists. …
Two Sourcing Methods: “Backwards” and “Shooting In the Dark”
I have described the Backwards Method in the previous post. To summarize: Step 1 – collect as many email addresses as possible from pages that may contain relevant ones. Get emails from Google results, pages containing contact lists, anything remotely promising. But probably keep your searches returning only results from the past 2-3 years since both emails and careers get …
Contacting Registered Nurses
I am truly excited to be sourcing for COVID-19 Treatment trials. It’s like a dream come true! It is both helping and getting much deeper experience (and fun) sourcing in the Healthcare industry. We need to find: Registered Nurses Clinical Research Coordinators in NYC and Indiana, several people for each of the four openings, and it’s urgent. Unlike in our …
How Many Results Do You Wish to Get?
There is always a limit on the number of search results you can view. It is 1,000 on LinkedIn with any account. On Google, you will not get more than 300-500 results for any search. If you are a “perfectionist” and always want to see as many results as possible (and maybe with the Verbatim filter), sorry, you are wrong. …
Digital Passes for Online Sourcing Learning Day Are Available
Hello Sourcers: Did you miss the Online Sourcing Learning Day on May 6th? We got a big international crowd and awesome reviews, see below. Not all is lost! 😉 You can now order a “digital pass” which provides access to six (6) hours of recordings and sets of slides from seven international Master Sourcers here – -> https://onlinesourcinglearningday.com <- – it is available …
15 Unique Features of Custom Search Engines
As my friends know, I have been fascinated by Google’s Custom Search Engines (CSEs) for years. I have met several colleagues who have become as addicted to CSEs as I am; I feel as if we belong to a tribe. 🙂 I remain disappointed by the apparent CSEs’ low penetration into our industry tools. Part of the undeserved unpopularity is …
Sales Navigator and LinkedIn Recruiter Import Replacement – with a Basic Account!
We all dearly miss the free Sales Navigator extension and the related link to cross-reference emails. When LinkedIn announced that they are removing the SN Chrome extension, I posted a blog commenting on the Sales Navigator Death. LinkedIn Recruiter (the “old” version) has an import function, which they call “Talent Pipeline,” capable of cross-referencing massive email lists at a time. …
How to Search by City Location on LinkedIn
The worst part of LinkedIn.com people search is that we no longer can search by any location other than a standardized one, like “San Francisco Bay Area” (where I live). But my area is large; people won’t commute from San Jose to San Francisco, for example. The workaround for narrowing down to a “city” location, like “San Jose, California,” is …
The Full List of 21 Google Search Operators
Operator Meaning Pages containing keywords in: allinurl: / inurl: – the URL allintitle: / intitle: – the Title allintext: / intext: – the text allinanchor: / inanchor: – the anchor text filetype: – file types site: Narrow results to a site related: Shows similar sites (being phased out) cache: Shows a page copy in the Index define Gives a definition …
Using Your Hands vs. Boolean Builders
My Dad was a simple man. For him, life was about figuring out what is right and wrong and then doing the right thing, which he expected of others – and didn’t hesitate to tell them. (Needless to say, I did many things wrong.) But, in his Partial Differential Equations, he was quite intuitive and subtle, often thinking and …