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In the previous post Why You Lose Potential Candidates with LinkedIn Job Posts, I talked about the (wrong) estimated salary ranges used on LinkedIn Job posts and – unfortunately! – in the advanced Job Search. Here’s another piece of information on how LinkedIn job posts work. It may unpleasantly surprise you even more. (Sorry!) If you read further, you will see that stating the salary range …

While professionals may consider changing jobs for many reasons other than money, the salary is one of the most important factors. If you post jobs on LinkedIn, you need to be aware of the salary information, automatically communicated to your potential applicants. Look what happens when you post a job on LinkedIn. Here is a screenshot of a job opening, showing the …

Here is how to find lists of professionals in a specific industry, from given countries or regions. 1) Start with one of the words: members, list, participants, attend (etc.) (Note: Do NOT combine these words with an OR statement). 2) Add two to three specific country email domain extensions such as “de”, “nl”, “au”, “za”, etc. 3) Optionally, add a few phone …

The Program was created to keep Recruiting professionals and teams on top of all things Sourcing and Searching and to allow fair measurement of Sourcing skills. It is thriving and has evolved. We have made some changes in the format and content, based on our significant experience and user feedback. We refresh the materials in the Guidebook monthly, to reflect everything important that …

German holds the second place among the most spoken languages in Europe.  The top Social Network for the German-speaking people is XING.com. More than a half of XING members, about 8 MLN, are German-speaking people from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In Germany, there are more XING members than LinkedIn members: XING allows to message members; you need to have a …

A true Sourcer needs to be open-minded, resourceful, and creative. While some sites and tools may seem to cover the “wrong” territory, many can be used quite productively if you give them a chance and dig a little deeper. To illustrate, let’s take a look at ZoomInfo, one of the oldest sites to source for professionals, which is still going quite strong. …

How many times was a LinkedIn post (such as this one , for example) shared – on LinkedIn and on other social sites? When you view a LinkedIn post, you see the numbers of “views” and “likes”, but not the number of shares. There used to be a hack to look up the numbers of shares – by opening the posts in …

When a specific site may have target professionals, there are always two complementary ways to try to source them from the site: Deep Web Search, i.e. using the site’s search dialog(s) X-Ray, i.e. searching for the information  on the Surface Web, using a search engine’s (typically, Google’s) operator site: Let’s apply the two approaches to sourcing on the site About.me. …