AngelList has recently introduced a “sourcing” function. To source on AngelList, you need to define your company and post a job. Then, press the menu item “Recruit” to launch the Sourcing function: The free search filters AngelList offers for Sourcing include keywords, role, location, looking for full/part-time, work authorization, years of experience, and skills. Many members have their resumes and social profile …
Sourcing Contest Answers and Winners
Congratulations to our winners! Here are the questions from our Social List Sourcing Contest, with the answers. Q1. Find a person who lives in the state of New York, US, whose LinkedIn Headline contains all of the following: “Open to New Opportunities” CFO “VP Finance” Controller What is the name of the town where he lives? [Hicksville] Q2. Find a person on …
LinkedIn Accounts Comparison
Let’s take a look at what various LinkedIn types of accounts offer. LinkedIn has “personal” and “professional” account types. Personal are basic, career, and business subscriptions. All personal accounts have the same search filters (there are no “premium” filters for a business account). Professional are Recruiter Lite, LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR), Sales Navigator, and Sales Navigator Team. Number of Search Results …
Introduction to Social List, a Cool Sourcing Tool
Social List is a Sourcing Tool that lets you instantly generate lists of target social profiles and export them. The tool searches for public profiles on LinkedIn, Indeed, ZoomInfo, Github, Meetup, and several other social sites. Designed with Recruiters in mind, the tool can also be helpful to Sales and Business Development professionals. Here is how search looks in Social List. …
Social List Trial! Sourcing Contest!
I am happy to announce a Social List Trial and a Sourcing Contest, running in parallel this week. Social List (https://sociallist.io) is a tool for Recruiters and Salespeople. It allows to instantly collect and export lists of public Social Profiles matching your requirements. Social List brings precision and intelligence to X-Ray searches. It is easy to use and boosts your …
Facebook Graph Search – New Tips
Here is a new site helping with the Facebook graph search queries – Who Posted What (Idea by Henk van Ess, Developed by Daniel Endresz,) The site (still in Beta) offers to search for comments by a user with a given keyword or posted within a certain date range. The Facebook ID that is required can be easily found via https://findmyfbid.com/. Apparently, the template string …
Five Hidden Google Operators
Many Sourcers know that adding “&filter=0” to the search URL would “tell” Google to “search with omitted results included”. There are several other ways to control search results that cannot be expressed through the Google advanced search operators. These include: narrow to a language – set in the Advanced Search Dialog narrow to a country – set in the Advanced Search …
The Full List of Google Advanced 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 info: Shows page info define Gives a definition The quotes (“”) Search for a …
LinkedIn Recruiter: More Confusion
Remember, LinkedIn Recruiter finds more results when we enter a company name vs. point to a company object? We discussed this in LinkedIn Recruiter: Not WYSIWYG. Well, it turns out that, when searching for job titles, it is the opposite: selecting a value (Software Engineer, in the screenshot) brings many more results than entering the same words in quotation marks – …
Sourcing Training Library and Certifications
Our Sourcing Certification Program is now in its sixth year. We have had hundreds of professionals enroll in our Subscription and take the Exam. I wanted to update everyone on our offerings. The Training Library has twenty recorded classes, to study at your own pace. The classes cover a variety of sourcing topics in-depth. Some webinars include two sessions, a Lecture, and …