Announcing the online Workshop “Sourcing without LinkedIn” If you are searching for professionals, you cannot avoid using LinkedIn. However, everyone is performing similar searches and finding the same profiles; premium accounts are expensive; and, most importantly, about 85% of professionals are either not on LinkedIn or have “shallow” profiles with too few keywords to be found. (Even if you subscribe …
What Doesn’t Work on LinkedIn
I love LinkedIn and use it every day. LinkedIn has changed our profession, revolutionized sourcing and recruiting, and continues to be the #1 go-to site for the majority of recruiters, with no competition in sight. I am glad to share creative LinkedIn Sourcing techniques with my colleagues in blog posts, discussions, webinars, and as part of the Sourcing Certification Program. I moderate …
Search Outside of a Geo-Area on LinkedIn
I’d like to share a tip on how to search LinkedIn for the members outside of a certain geographical area. There are at least two good reasons to search outside of an area: 1. If you search by keywords, with no location specified, you are likely to see the top results from your own area – LinkedIn thinks that finding people who …
Have You Discovered ZipRecruiter Resumes Yet?
It looks like ZipRecruiter, that has been offering job posts and social shares of jobs, is rapidly working on adding resume database access, currently in Beta. Applicants for past jobs can opt-in for their resumes to be found and viewed by all employers who use the system. (This gives ZipRecruiter instant volume of candidates already in the database.) New applicants can …
Hunting for Tools Alternatives and Similar Software
Google search usually works fine to respond to most short queries or questions, if the online information exists. Specifically, Googling can provide suggestions for software tools. Just Google productivity Chrome extensions or lead generation tools to see some suggestions in these tools’ categories. Tip: Google two or three names of similar tools to land on blogs with tools reviews and to learn about other …
LinkedIn Search Results Unblurring Tool
If you have hit the new Commercial Use Limit on Search on LinkedIn, your search results screen will look like this – the first few results are shown and the rest are blurred: Amazingly, the “commercial” search limit affects even the search for your first level connections! (If you have a basic or a job seeker account and are doing lots of searching, but don’t see …
Well-Hidden Secret: LIR “Hiring Manager”
If at least one of your colleagues has access to LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR), you can take advantage of that for sourcing and searching. Team members and collaborators can re-use another member’s LIR subscription and perform unlimited searches – without breaking any rules. The key is to use the little-known “Hiring Manager” add-on functionality. Let me show you how. I have access to LIR, but was not aware …
Maximize ROI on LinkedIn – Webinar Thu Feb 12, 2015 (NEW DATE!)
LinkedIn is the No. 1 Social Network used by Recruiters and Sourcers around the world, with no competition in sight. It may seem that, with the major new restrictions on searching and on InMails, you have to go for a premium account or even get Recruiter seats for everyone on your team. The decisions are yours; I am going to help …
13+ Tools: Profiles from Emails, Emails from Profiles
Finding someone’s email address, starting from a social profile (such as a LinkedIn profile), and finding social profiles, starting from an email address, are two kinds of top-requested productivity tools for Sourcers, Recruiters, Sales Professionals, and Social Media Marketers these days, for many good reasons, such as the new rigid limitations for both searching for professionals and for sending InMails on …
Never Stop Searching LinkedIn
Due to the just-introduced Commercial Use Limit on Search, many LinkedIn members are hitting the search quota for the month in the first day or two of January 2015 – and have to wait another month to search again. LinkedIn didn’t say how many searches are “too many”; the experience shows it’s around sixty searches for one month. I find limiting the search …