Some of the Yahoo services, including search, seem to be staying unattended lately; its “contacts” have some shaky parts as well. However, some of the Yahoo “contacts” functionality can be used for the purpose of connecting with friends across networks. If you wanted to connect with some of your Facebook friends on other social networks, here is how to …
Google-Plus Sourcing Webinar – October 30, 2013
Google-Plus presents excellent tools for searching, sourcing, and reaching out, and it’s time to master them. Let the Facebook numbers not fool you; Google-Plus is the second top place on the Internet to figure out, if you are looking for professionals, after LinkedIn. Waiting further to use it for sourcing will put you behind others who already use it to …
Google-Plus vs. Rapportive
Rapportive is a Sourcer’s favorite tool that allows to find the “social footprint” for someone by pasting an email address into a Gmail new message. It was acquired by LinkedIn; the Chrome extension shows the last update done back in September 2012, which certainly means that it’s not being actively maintained… The tools collects the data, based on email addresses, in its own …
Bing vs. Yahoo Search – Today
While Yahoo.com is considered to be one of the top sites that people access for web search, right behind Google and Bing, it has long lost its own search engine due to its business decisions, and has been “powered by Bing” since 2010. Since that switch, Yahoo has not provided any additional or different search results, compared to Bing. What …
SourceCon Seattle 2013 Impressions
This year has been a year of many conferences for me, most of them being dedicated to sourcing: speaking at SourceCon in Atlanta in February 2013, at Sourcing Summit New Zealand in May, at Sourcing Summit Europe in Amsterdam in September (see a post about it), and just now I returned from SourceCon Seattle October 2-3, which I attended as …
HiringSolved: a Global People Aggregator
HiringSolved is a new kid on the block among the gaining popularity people aggregators, the “dream software” tools, as I called them in excitement at the time when the first two of them were introduced, which was only two years ago. What is different about Hiringsolved? – They are concentrating on profile aggregation. I see this as a positive quality. …
Tracking Profile Changes
Following up on the post Monitoring companies for staff who leave by James Mayes and What Will Replace Linkedin Signal? by Viveka von Rosen, I’d like to point to ways to track LinkedIn profile changes, using the only outside-of-LinkedIn site that openly and “officially” tracks and indexes LinkedIn profiles, Google. Sure enough, LinkedIn has profiles, Google has pages, and telling Google how to look for specific information …
Follow the Leads
What is better, Boolean search or Semantic search? There are different opinions on that. Let me suggest an alternative approach to searching altogether, that can certainly be combined with Boolean and with Semantic and will help you to discover new leads. Let’s review an example. Suppose we are looking for Wastewater Project Managers in Canada. 1. The “Boolean” approach may …
We Broke the Internet #sosueu
I just came back from Sourcing Summit Europe, organized by Phillip Tusing and hosted by Randstad at their HQ in Amsterdam. This was a fantastic event, filled with excellent content and the spirit of camaraderie between sourcers from 15 countries. On the photo above: I had a great time chatting with Balazs‘ team of young sourcers from Randstad. There’s lots of posts and pictures about the event …
How to Find Lists
At the LinkedIn webinar we discussed how to work with lists of professionals with contact information. If you upload a whole list into your Contacts, you can: search within the list on all of the LinkedIn data in these profiles and reliably keep track of people from the list… …since the professionals will be, in most cases, updating their profiles. …