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 …
Uncovering Hidden Names, Viewing Full Profiles
Back in December 2013 I posted the tip People You May Not Know about uncovering the hidden names and the full profiles on LinkedIn. It works in 100% cases and is based on saving the profile in question in your contacts. The Contacts provides a goldmine of sourcing functionality; I have written about other creative ways to use them on …
Sourcing Contest Winners #SourcingSolved
The Contest, sponsored by: – People Sourcing Certification and the People Aggregator HiringSolved – is over! We had over 30 submissions from the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Hungary, Russia, China, and India, with the majority of the participants coming from the US. Here is some selected feedback from those who took part and submitted answers: This was great fun, Irina! I really enjoyed it. …
Sourcing Contest #SourcingSolved
This week the People Sourcing Certification Program is running the Winter Sale, offering one or two extra webinars to those who purchase the People Sourcing Certification Materials (both level materials offer the best value – that is 18 hours of training!). Check it out! In conjunction with it, we are announcing the Sourcing Contest – #SourcingSolved. Below is a preview for those of …
InMail: Include Your Contact Information
[LinkedIn bug. InMail doesn’t include your contact details when asked.] InMails are included in paid LinkedIn accounts, both personal and the LIR (LinkedIn Recruiter). I’ve recently run into InMails working not in the way we’d expect. I sincerely hope that LinkedIn will fix this soon and will update you when they do. I have included two screenshot of composing InMails …
Webinar: Productivity Tools and Techniques for Sourcing
Due to numerous requests, I am repeating the Productivity Tools and Techniques for Sourcing webinar on Thursday January 23rd, 2014. Seating is limited. Join me to get the full coverage of the most important techniques – and over 50 (fifty) tools – for maximizing your Sourcing and Recruiting productivity in 2014. I will show several use case scenarios of combining some easy-to-use tools …