In this newly developed webinar, “Sourcing Methodologies”, I will cover several innovative sourcing and research concepts, that, once put to work, are going to make your Sourcing soar to the new heights! (See the registration link below.) “X-Raying”, “Flipping” and “Peeling” are ways to source talent, that were named and conceptualized fifteen years ago. While they remain perfectly applicable and useful, today’s …
“Lazy” Sourcing
I imagine that you would agree with me that advanced Boolean searching for talent on Google is harder than searching on a job board or on LinkedIn, which, in turn, is harder than sorting and filtering a list of professionals in an Excel table. Sure enough, advanced search offers control over the results, but in some cases it becomes very …
Searching for Contact Info
Here’s a brief post on searching for contact information on LinkedIn. Posting visible contact info on the profiles is discouraged; but, as we know, many members do, particularly those who are Recruiters, Sales, and “Open Networkers”. At the same time, LinkedIn quietly takes some measures for us to see less of that contact info. As an example, a search for “gmail.com” in the UK population returns …
SourcePedia: Reference and Teaser
Here’s a preview of some of the reference materials I will be sharing at the upcoming Webinar – “SourcePedia”, repeated live on Tuesday, July 15th, 2014. Seating is limited; sign up early to get your spot. (1) All the LinkedIn names for the Geo-locations, world-wide. You would need these for X-Ray searches, such as this site:www.linkedin.com/in OR site:www.linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir “location * Glasgow, United …
SourcePedia (Sourcing Reference): Webinar Tuesday July 1st
Announcing a new Sourcing Webinar: SourcePedia (Sourcing Reference): Tuesday July 1st Which search engines index the Internet globally? Where could I find the list of current Boolean operators for sourcing in a one-page document? What are the differences between the Google and the Bing search syntax? Where can I look up the corporate email formats for a given company? Which email collection and …
Mini-Sourcing Contest :)
It’s been a while since I ran the last sourcing contest. Here is a new one. Try your sourcing and research skills! The first person to email me the correct answer will be eligible to take the Sourcing Certification Exam in July or August 2014 (their choice; the fee waved) and, as usual, will be featured on the Boolean Network. Read on. …
X-Raying Twitter Is Easy
X-Raying Twitter for member bios has just become really easy. We don’t have to struggle excluding the non-bios via something like …-inurl:lists -inurl:members -inurl:hashtag -inurl:status -inurl:statuses… That is because Twitter has recently added a new separate view with “Tweets and replies”. A URL for the “Tweets and replies” ends in /with_replies, while preserving all of the bio information. Therefore, we now have two ways …
Sourcing Developers in Source Code
Searching for Software Engineers seems to be on many Sourcers’ minds. Finding “someone” qualified can be easy. They may be on LinkedIn, or Github, or Stackoverflow, or Google-Plus, or with resumes online, and often on all of these sites at the same time. But if that coding guru is easily found, you are competing with “everybody else” for her attention. …
Search on Facebook that’s NOT Graph
The Facebook Graph Search is now available to all English-speaking users of Facebook. The rest of the users can experience the Graph Search by changing the language to English in the settings. There are, however, some advantages to using the “pre-Graph” search on Facebook. You will guess correctly that if you use Facebook in English, by changing the language to any other language you will get that type of …
Facebook and Twitter for Sourcing – Webinar WED May 21 at 9 AM (Repeat)
Looking for more ways to source without LinkedIn? This hands-on sourcing webinar will go over dozens of tips and tools for sourcing on the two social networking giants, Facebook and Twitter. (This webinar is complementary to the prerecorded webinars “Sourcing without LinkedIn” and “Sourcing with Google-Plus” in the Training Library.) Who should attend: Sourcers, Recruiters, Talent Acquisition Specialists, all those …