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  No matter how long and complex Boolean you write, it will miss a significant percentage of qualified Software Developer candidates. Search on – or X-Ray – LinkedIn, Github, Gitlab, dev.to,  Stackoverflow, HackerRank, Reddit, Slack, Discord, or Twitter – and you will still miss them. Consider this. You can search by (“preferred”) programming language and location on Github. But many …

When assessing a people aggregator like SeekOut, Entelo, AmazingHiring, HireEZ, and others, or even the general-purpose Zoominfo, two points are critical: How complete is the coverage (for your target audience)? How up-to-date is the data? My idea is to run searches for unique names. If a combination <first, last> is unique (or even unique only in a given industry and …

Here are seven sample X-Ray searches which may give you additional ideas on X-Raying LinkedIn: Unemployed or Recent Job Changes: site:linkedin.com/in inanchor:walmart business analyst –intitle:walmart Recommended members: site:linkedin.com/in “recommendations received” People with no current job (at the crawl time) or those who hide the employment section on public profiles: site:linkedin.com/in -present Recent jobs with little competition: site:linkedin.com/jobs/view sourcer “be among …

The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is an identification number for covered Healthcare providers – doctors, dentists, chiropractors, nurses, and other medical staff. Many sites duplicate this info (Google for any concrete NPI number to find them). The primary site to use for search is npino.com. In Healthcare sourcing, it can complement utilizing Healthcare registries. View available lists of Physicians on …

In a previous post, Creating Real-Time Mini-People-Aggregators, I described a Healthcare-related use case of sourcing in license registries. In the US, the majority of Healthcare professionals (except for some entry-level job holders) must be licensed to practice in the state where they do. License verification sites vary by state and profession, but you will often locate all Healthcare license types on …

Manipulating X-Ray results with operators such as inanchor:, AROUND(X), and others allows anyone to run precise Google-based searches. You can use Google X-Ray Search to find LinkedIn profiles (for free) in remarkable ways! Search for: – Headlines – Work locations – Correct latest company (when multiple “current” companies exist on a profile) – Correct latest job title (when multiple “current” job …

Job hunting or looking for clients? Here is how to locate LinkedIn members who have open positions, for networking. It is common for people who are hiring to put in their headlines the word “hiring” (or “looking for”) along with the role(s) open. Google’s operator inanchor: searches in Headlines. So, here is, as an example, how to find Hiring Managers …

It sounds sexy to Source without LinkedIn – and it should. One can do some exciting things outside of LinkedIn. However, you need to know quite a bit about people’s professional history to consider them potential candidates. Where else, except LinkedIn (or job boards, which have been deserted lately,) can you find someone’s job title, company, how long they have …

It was not the case 10-15 years ago, but now, Google pays attention if you repeat a keyword or a key phrase. Repeating, in theory, should not be necessary; you would expect the same results if Google followed formal Boolean logic and displayed “all” results. However, Google puts some informal “thinking” into the string interpretation, so: If you repeat a …