If we know someone’s name, company, and email format(s) used at the company, chances are that we could construct that business email address. Here are some ways to figure out the email format(s) specific companies are using. 1. Collections of Formats Online collections of corporate email formats have been shared across our groups. I will list some of them …
People You May Not Know
Another “back door” to LinkedIn has just been shut, breaking the “PYMK” (people you may know)-based link, breaking the bookmarklet shared on Sourcecon.com, a tool posted on Sourcing Hacks, and the hint in the “Hidden Names Discovery” post. There’s a workaround. Step 1. Save the profile to your contacts: Step 2. Take a look at the newest person in …
Dice Open Web Is Out of Beta
As a Dice subscriber, I couldn’t miss the note from Dice CEO Shravan Goli “Dice’s Open Web is coming out of Beta”. Dice’s Open Web technology is one of the pioneers among people aggregators, the new generation sourcing tools, initially developed as theSocialCV. (See more tools in the people aggregator category listed on the Tools page.) Dice certainly showed innovative ways of thinking, being the first job …
An Introduction to People Sourcing
Join me for a webinar on December 19, 2013. Seating is limited. This newly designed class covers all of the basic concepts, technologies, and tips for those who search for professionals on the Internet. It will provide you with as many essential Google Boolean Strings, LinkedIn hacks, sourcing productivity tools, and all things related, as can be squeezed into …
Working Around Captchas
When Google feels like our queries are too complex and suspects that they are sent by a robot, it throws a captcha (a squiggly word with a box below it). This supposedly protects Google from being misused by non-humans, i.e. computer programs, that may find and scrape too much information too quickly. If you are a human presented with a …
How-To: A Google-Plus Custom Search Engine
Google’s Custom Search Engines (CSE) provide us with a way to access Google’s search index in a focused manner. At the core of the tool is X-Raying; any CSE starts with the identification of the site(s) we would like to narrow our search to, providing a way to hide the Boolean operator site: from the end user. The CSE creation …
LinkedIn Skills and “Related Skills” Teaser
The Skills page has been removed. But skills are present in LinkedIn, not just on members’ profiles but also on some other pages. That could be useful for sourcing. Company pages may list skills that their employees have, even along with the numbers of people with a particular skill. University pages show skill that their University grads have: This is …
LinkedIn Numbers by Country
LinkedIn doesn’t easily let you search beyond your network; it requests the searches to be narrowed down by keywords if you want to do that. The same is true for paid accounts, including Recruiter. However… I was able to do a search (today, 11/15/2013) and see the LinkedIn member numbers by country for all the major countries, the ones with …
Visualize Success
It was a pleasure delivering the free “Boolean Solved” webinar, sponsored by HiringSolved, yesterday. We had a huge number of people – 1,057 people signed up! – from 39 countries: AE, AR, AU, BE, BR, BY, CA, CH, CN, CO, CZ, DE, DK, EC, ES, FR, GB, GH, HU, IE, IL, IN, IT, NL, PH, PK, PL, RO, RU, SA, …
Boolean AND Non-Boolean Search on LinkedIn
Did you know that not all LinkedIn search fields accept Boolean AND-OR-NOT expressions and some have different syntax than searching by keywords? Understanding the correct syntax is critical is executing searches and interpreting the search results. This is a quick overview of the variations in the supported search syntax in LinkedIn search dialogs. The three syntax variations are: Boolean search, supporting AND …