ChatGPT is is a fascinating tool, utilizing AI at a level not seen before. It is not only going to change how people Google but will affect job functions and ruin software. Apparently, it can write essays, poems, fictional short stories, software code, create, and solve quizzes. (What are some other use cases have you thought of?) It works in …
Healthcare Sourcing Specifics (a CSE Inside)
A skilled Sourcer knows search principles and techniques and can work in any industry. But at a closer look, each sector has its own advantages and challenges when it comes to sourcing. Few Healthcare professionals are online, even fewer are on LinkedIn, and reaching out is challenging. But in Healthcare, you have sources of potential candidates such as: • …
Dialog with LinkedIn Engineering
Hello All: I am grateful for LinkedIn Engineering Management for reaching out in response to my post. We are now getting some incredible technical knowledge from a LinkedIn Engineering Director, who is reviewing a list of issues I had reported. They have already fixed one issue and acknowledged another (the need for better timeout handling). It feels like the first-ever …
LinkedIn Hack: Search Past the Present Pair
Guest Post from Talent Sourcer Mike Santoro Perhaps the most famous “pair” in recruiting and sourcing search strategy is finding candidates based on matching their “Current Job Title(s)” at “Current Company(s).” Let’s call this a “Pair of Aces.” In this article, I’m going to show two new ways to search (on LinkedIn and via X-ray) for a NEW search combination …
Sourcing Mathematica in Closed Networks
I want to share my experience sourcing a Mathematica Engineer (Palo Alto) on Reddit, Discord, and a professional forum. I followed advice from Wim Dammans and Erin Mathew, who are experts in this sort of sourcing. Here is what I learned. Mathematica Engineers working outside of Wolfram’s Mathematica are rare primarily because it is expensive and not open-source software (here …
LinkedIn Software Crisis (a Summary)
A few days ago, many functions on LinkedIn broke for several hours (you can always – and hopefully will be able to – check on Twitter whether something is going on globally). LinkedIn mostly got it back together to the previous state. This post is about what remains broken. A lot, unfortunately – I don’t think it has been that …
Deviations from Boolean
Is Boolean (newly) broken? First, let us make it clear what we mean by the question. There are: Google Boolean search Google search LinkedIn Boolean search LinkedIn search. Out of the four, two are intentionally “broken,” and one is broken due to bugs. One works fine, but produces unexpected numbers – and lists – of results – something that has …
The Shallowest Deep Web Where Hackerranker Lives
Search Engines like Google index pages on the Surface Web, i.e. (roughly speaking) pages that do not require a login. Not all of those pages are indexed. Sites can tell Google not to index parts of them. The mechanism is via robots.txt files or <meta> directives on individual pages. Even though you can view those pages in incognito, you won’t …
Boolean Search Is Dead
Google search strings are often called Boolean Strings. But do you think Google search is Boolean? It is not. Neither is LinkedIn’s, despite what their help says. Both platforms apply semantic algorithms, trying to guess the searcher’s intent; one – successfully, the other – poorly, introducing bugs while at it. Both platforms break the formal Boolean rules. You can see …
Hide-and-Seek Profiles
As my friend Master Sourcer Marcel van der Meer demonstrates, 84 MLN LinkedIn members will not be found by locations. We also know from test searches that: ~45-60% members are not found by Seniority, Function, Company Size, and other LinkedIn-calculated filters ~600 MLN members cannot be found by years of experience. People join LinkedIn to be visible and be found. …