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 …
Relevant Skills: the Secret Revealed
LinkedIn used to have a “skills” page. That page was useful for all since it was showing relevant skills after you’ve entered a skill. The “relevant skills” are (were) crowd-sourced: those were the other skills that the majority of members with a given skill have. The skills page was a good way to figure out a variety of keywords to …
Google Search Results Reflect Previous Search
This post is just to share something quite interesting that I have noticed while using Google search. (This is not a “sourcing tip” type of post.) I am curious whether anyone has seen this – or any posts about it. It could be that I’ve seen some experimenting on Google’s part, not available across Google search. Here’s what I did. …
Webinar: Sourcing without LinkedIn
Sourcing without LinkedIn While LinkedIn is at the core of today’s sourcing, some of us log into LinkedIn first thing in the morning, stay there all day, and leave the wealth of other sites and ways for searching for professionals untouched or used little. Unless the professionals you are looking to find have to have informative profiles filled with keywords …
Lippl: See Hidden Public Profiles
Lippl is a new tool not to be missed. It’s an easy-to-use Chrome extension that allows you to view anyone’s public LinkedIn profile. It is useful when viewing profiles “far away” in your network: 3rd level if you are a basic members and out-of-network if you are either a basic or a premium member. Press the Open button to see …
Boolean Search on Facebook
It’s a well hidden sourcing secret – I have not heard anyone mention it – but Boolean Search on Facebook is possible. Boolean search is NOT available through the Graph search. Most people think it’s not possible at all, unless you pay for some expensive tools. But it’s possible and, though it’s somewhat limited, there are certainly good practical uses …