Two days after I published an astonishing discovery on the space ” ” providing extra results, LinkedIn Recruiter quietly changed its search algorithm – again! (Big thanks to several colleagues who tried the searches, no longer saw the same results as I had posted, and alerted me). Could be, LinkedIn fixed the LinkedIn Recruiter problem? After the change, both examples in …
Spaced Out!
If you use LinkedIn Recruiter, I highly recommend at least skimming this post and the next. LinkedIn Recruiter fooled me this time! I was searching for managerial level people, putting the word “manager” in the title and varying other parameters. In a while, I have started feeling suspicious about the number of results. It seemed unreasonably small. After a bit …
Don’t Save the String
It’s funny that people in our industry would talk about Boolean Strings as if those strings were “heavy”, complex, and lasting. Just think “building a string”, “crafting a string” and “saved Boolean Strings”, “Boolean Strings storage”. Boolean Strings storage is serious business. But you know what? Saving Google Boolean search strings is just like saving the sentences you say so …
How to Fight the Lack of Features in Recruiter
Given the UI design for advanced people search dialog in LinkedIn Recruiter (that I would call user-unfriendly), there couldn’t possibly be a clean resolution for the vague “companies or boolean” field: Indeed, if there is one word entered, which is a company name (like Apple), will it be looking for employees of that particular company (Apple) or for people from …
You’ve heard of SourceCon Austin (Guest Post by Dave Galley)
This is a guest post from my business partner, a brilliant Sourcer, from whom I learn every day, David Galley. David will be speaking at the upcoming SourceCon in Austin. If you are going, please say “hi” to him, and I certainly recommend attending his talk. -Irina Now get ready for Wondering, “What the #@$%*! does that mean?” You are not …
Where the (Wild) Files Are
When data is exposed to search engines due to an incorrect site configuration, that data becomes available for Sourcing for anyone who knows how to find it – including you and me. About ten years ago, Sourcing techniques like “flipping” or “peeling” still worked, providing creative Researchers with the data to find and parse – sometimes, folders full of files with …
Get a List of Candidates for Your Requirements
Our new tool Social List continues to grow in popularity as well as its abilities. I would like to introduce it to more fellow professionals. Join me for a demo of https://sociallist.io and get a list sourced for your requirements (one per attendee). After the webinar, you will be able to run the tool on your own on a trial basis …
Melissa Data Goes to Work
In his post on SourceCon, @RandyBailey wrote about sourcing using Melissadata.com‘s service Email to Address. The service provides the “associated” (physical) addresses based on an email, and vise versa – it also shows names, emails, and, often, phone numbers based on a street address. I was exploring the site in relation to our “Data cleaning and enrichment” webinar. Let me share another, …
Facebook Sourcing Mastery
Which Social Network is best for Talent Sourcing? This question does not have a good answer, because: There’s no need to narrow our search to one set of data (it would be silly, right?) We can communicate with the prospects using a different site than the one where we found them. A better question is – What makes a …
Parlez-Vous Francais?
In Geotargeting 101, we narrowed search results to a region using a “Boolean-string-invisible” setting in Google Advanced Search. The same advanced search dialog has a language setting, that is also not reflected in the search string. The search engine “hears” it via a URL parameter. For example, if we set the language to English, the added URL piece will be &lr=lang_en. Suppose we …