LinkedIn has announced some major – negative – changes coming up for LinkedIn Groups. The announcement sounds rather odd to me. While LinkedIn will add a few new additions to Groups, they are taking away the two main features that make Groups useful for members. Moderation queues will be “temporarily” unavailable. — I expect groups to get spammy posts, diminishing Groups’ value. Admin and …
Cross-Referencing Individuals
Cross-referencing is a major sourcing method. Everyone should be using it as part of a sourcing process. “Cross-Reference”: starting from incomplete initial data, build up professional profiles by locating and assembling the professional bio details. Let’s take a look at some cross-referencing techniques. We start from incomplete – but promising – professional data. Our goal is to find additional information that would pre-qualify …
Two Interesting Sourcing Tools
I want to share two Chrome extensions that I have started using recently – and I like them! ZAPinfo (formerly WebClipDrop) is a unique combination of a web scraper combined with data enrichment software. ZAPinfo: Collects and parses profiles or resumes from Social Networks, Job Boards, and other sites Enriches the records with contact and social info – I use this …
Eight Strings To Find Code Authors
One of my favorite ways to source for Software Developers is in the “authors” files. Software code repositories often have text-formatted “authors” files which list contributors, usually along with their contact email addresses. Here are some Boolean Strings that find lists of code authors. Search on github.com: inurl:authors site:github.com PHP (looking for a programming language) inurl:authors site:github.com django (looking for a …
Finding Facebook IDs for Companies Hack
To search for a company employees on Facebook, we need to know the company ID (a long number). Here is how to obtain the ID for a company. I will be using Google as an example; the hack will work for any company if you replace “google” with your company name in the following steps. First, let’s look for the …
Common Sense Sourcing
We have just announced a brand-new webinar and workshop “Common Sense Sourcing,” that I would like to tell you about. I have recently posted two polls with suggestions of webinars that our colleagues would be interested in – on Facebook, in the Boolean Strings Group, and on LinkedIn. This topic described as “Common Sense Sourcing” workshop. Explaining hands-on techniques that would …
How to View Resumes with Names on Indeed for Free
This is a guest post from Jonathan Kidder. This hack was discovered by Trish Wyderka from the “Talent Sourcers Group” on Facebook. Recently, Indeed has blocked users from viewing resumes with the applicant’s name listed on the resume anymore. The reason for this change was because mainly there are so many extension tools that allow Talent Sourcers to find contact information. …
A LinkedIn Recruiter Flaw You Should Know About
I have a European client who keeps coming back with the same request, to source for a particular job opening. They are growing and are looking for multiple people who match the same requirement. By now, the number of profiles I have sourced for them is getting close to 1,000. As I repeat the search, ideally, I would like to …
How to Find Facebook Graph IDs for Job Titles
To find potential candidates or prospects on Facebook with the help of the Graph Search, which I covered in the previous post, we need to use Facebook IDs (long numbers) for Job Titles. These IDs are not always easy to identify. For a particular job title, the ID in question is the ID of the page corresponding to the job title. I.e. …
Facebook Graph Search Important Changes
Many people have noticed that tools that provide access to Facebook Graph searches, such as Shane McCusker’s Chrome extension or Searchisback, sometimes don’t produce results any longer. Using the Graph search directly, via URLs, we now also see some searches leading to empty pages. I want to bring some clarity to what has changed in the searches we have been using …