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 …
Sourcing for Active and Passive Candidates on Stackoverflow Careers
Stackoverflow is part of StackExchange, a “Q and A” platform. At this time it has 2.5 MLN users. The site Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 offers the users to share their professional information if they are open to new possibilities. Search for these profiles is paid for employers and recruiters. However, you can X-Ray the site (for free). Here’s what a profile on the “career” site …
Find People on Google-Plus by Emails
Finding social profiles by email addresses have some good applications in Sourcing. Examples are cross-referencing profiles and looking up extra professional information, as well as making several guesses about an unknown email address and finding out which guess is correct. Rapportive does those look-ups; it is one of my favorite tools. Here are some cool features that Google-Plus offers us in …
X-Raying LinkedIn is Not for Wimps
To continue the exploration of X-Raying LinkedIn for profiles, I’d like to cover two main reasons for false positives, which are not the results you might be looking for. They appear in the search results along with true “positives”, the results that do match. The below exploration applies to any X-Ray searching, no matter for hidden names discovery or for a …
Sort Order Exploration
While many people are trying to guess how the search results are sorted on LinkedIn now – there are, apparently, several factors that are taken to account, in an attempt to make the search order more “semantic” and more satisfactory for the person who is doing the search – let me share a very interesting, easy-to-interpret, sort order in some searches, that …