I am excited to be presenting our first “Competitive Intelligence for Recruiters” class on Tuesday, February 25th, with an optional workshop on Wednesday. “Competitive Intelligence” (CI) is gathering and analyzing information about the industry, business environment, competitors, products, and services. CI is typically associated with business decision-making, but I know you would agree with me that it’s entirely applicable to Sourcing. (It …
Dealing with the Sales Navigator Death
So many professionals on all social channels are complaining about the imminent loss of the Gmail Sales Navigator extension that it is hard to believe LinkedIn that the tool was underused. While there are many tools identifying people by email, the power of the extension was that it matched exactly right, for obvious reasons. Not all is lost, though! Here …
The Best Boolean String for Secret Clearance is Indirect
This is a guest post from David Galley, Director, Training Programs at Sourcing Certifications. The #1 question people have when they start sourcing is, “what is the best Boolean string to find the people I am looking for?” Searching for Secret Clearance is not straightforward, and there’s a significant demand for cleared specialists, especially in the Technology sector. Sometimes a …
Scrape Google Maps
If you are sourcing for professionals who provide services such as Accounting, or looking for office locations for a specific company, searching on Google Maps will provide valuable information. Scraping a Maps search results page allows you to filter and enrich the data, and you can do it quite simply, with no coding involved. PhantomBuster is a wonderful collection of …
Sourcing for Devs on Dev.To
Dev.to is a relatively new site where developers discuss how to build software, and it is quite a Sourcer-friendly site. 😉 A profile can have a location, education, skills, links to other profiles, content keywords, and, often, public email contact: Internal search for members is too weak to be useful. But we can X-Ray the site for profiles like so: …
Check Out These Nineteen Example Social Lists
The beauty of our tool Social List is that you can get a list of professionals in split seconds. As I offered to source for colleagues in my post, I got many beautifully diverse requests. Here are some sourced lists, as examples of what Social List can do, shared on the Boolean Strings Group on Facebook. Franchise Business Consultant in restaurants …
Revisit Social List & Contact Finder in 2020
Developed by “Sourcers Who Code,” Social List is worth your attention in 2020. Especially so, given how poorly LinkedIn is serving us (growing prices, reduced functionality, confusing UX, endless bugs, irresponsive and unknowledgeable customer support). Social List is a sourcing tool that lets you instantly generate lists of target social profiles based on your requirements The tool searches for public …
Webinar “Sourcing Skills Assessment and Development”, Now with Recording
You are invited to a rare free webinar on Wednesday, January 22nd “Sourcing Skills Assessment and Development”. [Edited: the webinar is over; please find the materials at the end of the article] Are you interested in assessing your or your team’s sourcing skills? Or are you looking for interview questions for new Recruiter hires? Or have you decided to get …
Tool Alert: OneSearch.com
Hello Sourcers: A brand-new “privacy-first” web search engine OneSearch.com from Verizon is out. Unlike Google, Bing, or Yandex, OneSearch does not have its own index. The search results are Bing-based. There is no documentation on search operators, but it looks like the operator site: works, and so do a few more, including the Bing-only operator, contains:, which looks for pages …
“Sourcing Answers” (Skills Assessment)
I am happy to announce a new eBook, “Sourcing Answers,” that David Galley and I have just e-published. We had initially conceived the book as an aid to prepare for our Sourcing Certification Exams. However, the book can also serve to help to assess your and your team’s Sourcing skills (whether your goal is to get certified or not) – …