For some changes in searching on Social Networks in 2015, please check out my previous post – Searching Social Media Got Harder in 2015. Below I have described some changes that are going to happen in Googling early in 2016. These are easy to predict: when a major site, such as LinkedIn or Google-Plus, changes the structure (title, URL, and content) of the public profile pages, …
Searching Social Media Got Harder in 2015
It never gets boring in our profession! Ways to search online change all the time. Here’s a quick outline of some changes that happened this year in searching on the four major Social Networks – LinkedIn, Twitter, Google-Plus, and Facebook. On LinkedIn, changes usually appear unannounced; overnight we are switched to new UI and different (usually, more restricted) ways to search. To create even more confusion, …
Boolean Sourcing Contest!
It has been seven years since the first Boolean Sourcing Contest (won by Andrea Mitchell). The ways search engines respond to queries have shifted since then. Boolean Search syntax has changed, but only sightly. However: 1) Google has become smarter, interpreting searches and looking for synonyms. 2) The amount of indexed data on the Internet has grown many times. It has become harder to control Googling outcome. Sometimes it feels …
Skill Search on LinkedIn You May Not Have Heard Of
If you are a Recruiter and have listed your job openings within your LinkedIn profile, chances are, sometimes you receive messages offering a job as a JavaScript programmer or a SAP consultant. Annoying! That happens because you have those keywords on the profile; someone found you in search and forgot to review your profile. It’s NOT a good practice sending messaging to people who are not qualified. However, they …
How To Find Anyone’s Work Email Address
In this post, I will explain how to locate the correct work email address in the case when a company uses a pattern including the middle initial (e.g. [email protected]). As an example, ConocoPhillips and JPMorgan use that format. Middle initials are often hidden from public profiles, and it is not always easy to look them up. Just to mention a quick …
300 Best Boolean Strings
I am excited to announce the upcoming release of the “300 Best Boolean Strings”. It has been in the works for the last two years, as I have been saving my searches created during sourcing projects, in response to our student’s questions, and to demonstrate various search hacks in webinars. “300 Best Boolean Strings” is an e-book with a collection of …
How To Source on LinkedIn with Any Account
In a recent post, I have described a great productivity tool, Talent Pipeline, available to those who have a LinkedIn Recruiter subscription. It’s little-known, but those without a Recruiter subscription can use LinkedIn functionality similar to Talent Pipeline. It is available from any personal account, Basic and Business alike. Just like with the Recruiter Pipeline tool, you can upload a list …
Boolean is Alive and Well, But Long Boolean is Dead
Recruiters like very long Boolean search strings. Why? It seems that the more synonyms and keyword variations you include, in long OR statements, the better control you get over the results and the more relevant results you will find. It’s common to run searches on Google that push the 32 keywords limit. The truth is, this approach used to …
The Reason Why We Love LinkedIn Recruiter #LIR
The LinkedIn Recruiter Talent Pipeline was first rolled out in 2012. It is included in the LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) subscription at no extra charge. In my mind, Talent Pipeline is one of the best LIR features; I have used it successfully for sourcing projects in numerous industries and locations. However (based on our teaching Talent Sourcing and talking to many LIR subscribers), …
Sourcing Revolution! Googling in Ways You Never Have
I am about to describe ways to search the Internet that you likely have never used. Please be patient; I need to start with some background, to explain how this works. Read on. There is a difference we face in searching within a database vs. searching the Internet. In a database, we access structured data, i.e. records with predefined fields, and can do …