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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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Last week at the Sourcing Summit UK (a wonderful, content-rich event that I loved being part of), Karen Azulai predicted that hands-on search is going away. (I know that Karen is an expert in HRTech and her point of view is well backed-up with her knowledge.) Johnny Campbell presented an interesting overview of the dynamics of Sourcing over the years and shared some …

I want to let you know about the new free Chrome extension that we have developed. The extension has two modes. In one, it collects all emails on a page, including hidden emails (hyperlinks). There are other extensions with the same functionality – however, ours has a superior formula for extracting emails and does a better job than others. You will …

One of my favorite applications for social media monitoring is IFTTT. The tool has “triggers,” fired when something happens, and “actions,” that are executed if triggers happen, by the rules that we can define. IFTTT offers RSS triggers: As an action for an RSS IFTTT trigger, we can, for example, send ourselves an email, or save the item in Evernote, …

Social List is a powerful yet simple to use sourcing tool. With Social List, you can: Find precisely targeted social profiles from a number of networks, including LinkedIn Populate the records with email addresses, and Export the results in an Excel format – all this in a matter of seconds and without needing any advanced Boolean syntax commands. Please watch …