We have recently discussed how to identify the LinkedIn profile from an email address and how to find Twitter profiles from a list of email addresses. What’s next? It’s Facebook! Here is how to find the Facebook profiles from a list of email addresses. This technique is especially useful now that Facebook has stopped showing profiles behind email addresses entered …
How to Find the Twitter ID from an Email Address
[Edited: the below no longer works. I do not know of a sure way to find a Twitter account by email. However, I do know how to find an account on LinkedIn – for long lists of emails at a time – check it out!] I will continue “the series” by explaining how to find the Twitter ID from an …
NEW! Social List Trial and Enrichment
I’d like to share some good news about Social List. As of now, you can register to use the site – no credit card required. Your trial will last seven days. With the new release of Social List, we have added the most requested feature: enriching the results with contact email addresses. Enrichment works on LinkedIn Agents. Here is a …
Two Timeless Lessons in Sourcing (UK)
This is a guest post from Martin Lee. Back in 1999 when I started my career in this business as an IT “new business” contract recruiter, we used search software called ISYS. I had to make maybe a 100 cold calls to generate one live requirement; I wasn’t the best sales guy. Needless to say, when I got a requirement …
“Rapportive” without Gmail or Chrome
[Edited 2022: please note, this no longer works. But you can upload a list of emails to LinkedIn and find out who these people are. >> How to Verify Email Guesses on the Professional Network] Recently LinkedIn switched the former Rapportive tool to become Sales Navigator extension, which works in Chrome/Gmail. We’ve all experienced some intermittent problems with the tool. …
Should You Trust All Google Tip Sheets?
To the best of my knowledge, these are trustworthy, informative posts, correctly outlining Google’s advanced search syntax as of now: Google Help (partial list; Google’s Help no longer lists all of the operators) Advanced Power Searching Skills Quick Reference (slightly outdated; by Dan Russel of Google) Google’s Advanced Search Operators (by Dan Russel, updated January 2018) Selected Google Commands (by …
“To be” OR (NOT “to be”) on LinkedIn
If we search on LinkedIn without the keywords, all it shows is the “close” network, which is our 1st and 2nd connections. Want to search without keywords but include all results? Then the trick is to use keywords but make the search non-restrictive. Here is an example string that finds everyone: “to be” OR (NOT “to be”) (you can replace …
Google’s Numrange is Broken
I hope that Google’s search operator Numrange will get fixed, and this post will become outdated. Numrange looks like this – 10..12 (replace the numbers for different ranges). It is supposed to find all the numbers between the lower and upper limits that we specify. Unfortunately, lately, we and some of our students have noticed the operator Numrange decline – it …
Three Research Tips for Recruiting Agencies
If you work at a recruiting agency, the following Boolean Strings would be useful for generating new business. 1) Find people who have recently started new jobs: site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub –pub.dir “present (1 month)” site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir “present (2 months)” site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir “present (3 months)” How can this help? a) You might be able to work on …
The Advantage of Sales Navigator
The premium LinkedIn subscriptions – Sales Navigator, Recruiter Lite, and LinkedIn Recruiter vary in the search filters provided for people search. It’s worth noting though, that only one type of account – Sales Navigator – also provides advanced company search, unavailable elsewhere. Personal accounts currently only offer keyword company search, while Lite and Recruiter don’t provide company search at all. …