To Boolean Strings Enthusiasts: I will publish the 3rd edition of the e-book “300 Best Boolean Strings” in January 2018. In the meantime, you can preorder the book at http://booleanbook.com. (If you were wondering, by now, over six hundred of your colleagues have purchased the book and seem quite happy with it!) I’ve rolled ten (10) new interesting Boolean Strings from the upcoming edition …
Custom Search for Recently Updated Profiles
Googling for recently updated profiles is a tricky business. However, Custom Search Engines, with their fascinating capabilities, allow us to set up sorting by date in the settings, making convenient UI to searching for pages that have been recently updated. If you were wondering, search results for the same query, 1) sorted by relevance and 2) sorted by date, as …
X Marks the Spot
The Twitter Advanced Search Dialog allows to search by city, for example, “San Francisco, CA” – but did you know you can search for a (Latitude, Longitude) location with a radius as small as 0.01 miles? To find the (Latitude, Longitude) for a spot on the map, right-mouse-click in Google Maps and choose “What’s There?”. As an example, I have copied …
2017 Changes to Four Major Tools
Long ago, in a previous life, I was interviewing at a start-up, and a tired interviewer, noticing that my degree was in Math, sighed and said: “Mathematics is great! The fundamentals stay the same, always. You can count on them not to change”. True! (Obviously, the amount of change at that company was overwhelming at the time). Axioms are true and stay …
Fascinating: Custom Headline Search
I must admit that until I started using the search technique that I am about to describe, I did not realize that a significant number of LinkedIn members customize their Headlines. I had expected most members to stay with the default Headline, which is <Job Title> at <Company>. Not true. It won’t be easy to estimate the percentage of customized …
X-Raying for NOT Job Hoppers
Recruiters who place highly qualified full-time employees always scan resumes and profiles to see if the person is a “job-hopper”. Most employers assume we won’t be bringing people for interviews if they changed jobs too often in the past for no good reason. We do, too. However – not too many search systems offer a chance to search for non-job-hoppers. LinkedIn …
Hidden LinkedIn Interpretations
LinkedIn’s Big Data puts the company in a unique position to create a system of organizations, job titles, skills, and the term relationships – which it used to have ambitious plans to do. I hope they will pick it up! But unfortunately, in the last few years, we are seeing somewhat weak and inconsistent attempts to figure out the data …
Programming Languages and IT Sourcing Pitfalls
These are the top fifteen programming languages on Github, the top site where engineers collaborate on creating software. Scroll down on the advanced search dialog and you will see the lo-o-o-o-ong choice of the languages, starting with the 24 most popular, then, listing “everything else”: Github also offers to search for languages using the language: operator instead of the menus. You can type …
What Did The Machine Learn?
Have you seen the heated Facebook discussions where our colleagues suggest the percentage of a Sourcer’s research work that will be soon automated – anywhere from 5% to 80%? Some say that we are in a dying profession. The future will show, but I am currently with the “5%” crowd. I do agree that some other jobs will change or …
Do Not Procrastinate – Refresh Your Recruitment Data
Is Recruitment Data in your ATS (Applicant Tracking System) outdated? The answer is “yes” (or “yes, unfortunately”) for the vast majority of us. We also realize that updating the records would be beneficial, because: People with whom we were in touch or who applied in the past (those in our ATS) are more likely to respond if we contact them …