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 …
Hidden Names: What Can Go Wrong with X-Raying
At the moment we do not know of a 100% method to find the names on out-of-network profiles, – those that are displayed in the search results as “LinkedIn Member”. With the varying ways and tools to find those hidden names, that come and go, discussed in forums, there’s always someone who comments that it’s “just a matter of Googling!” …
Excluding the Wrong Sites from Search Results
In the previous post Excluding Non-Resumes: Be Positive I explained how to “think positively” and get non-resumes out of the way when searching for resumes. There’s a different type of “wrong” results that cannot be removed by this strategy. These come from sites that make a special effort to be shown in the search results. Paid sites that offer resume search certainly …
Excluding Non-Resumes: Be Positive
This post is about the best practices in Boolean searching and specifically about (not) using the Boolean operator NOT (which is expressed by the minus – in Google) much and when unnecessary. The post is about online resumes, but the idea is applicable to any searching. There’s a common practice among recruiters to exclude whole sets of the “wrong” words …
Google Knowledge Graph: Semantic Interpretation of Queries
As the time goes, Google is able to make sense of more information as known objects, or entities, not “just” as keywords. It introduced the “Knowledge Graph” back in 2012 and keeps accumulating recognizable words and phrases in the search, to which it can respond in an intelligent manner, understanding its meaning, semantically. Google is implementing a very reasonable solution …
How To Find and Attract Technical Talent: Wed April 2 at 10 AM PDT
Join me for a new webinar: “How To Find and Attract Technical Talent”. You can register at the bottom of this page. Who should attend: Technical Recruiters of all levels and everyone interested in recruiting technical talent. Why you should attend: If you are searching for technical talent in 2014, you are aware how challenging it is. Technical skills are in …
Find Almost Anyone’s Email Using MS Outlook
In the following post I am going to explain how to easily and quickly test all of the guesses for a person’s email address all at once using MS Outlook. MS Outlook has an add-on called Social Connector. I have Outlook 2013 and the Social Connector is built in; for this latest version you need to turn it on. For earlier …