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  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 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. …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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. …

Coming up on Friday August 23, 2013: Repeating! We had a full house on Friday. New date:  September 5, 2013. Please note: this is webinar would benefit people with some prior LinkedIn experience. Powerful Sourcing with LinkedIn Space is limited. With the recent “retirement” of LinkedIn Signal and fewer functions seen in the menus, the perception is that the available sourcing …

Many of you have read through the post Find (Almost) Anybody’s Email Address by Rob Ousbey and use his technique. Rob has developed a Google Doc email permutator bit.ly/name2email to create a list of potential correct email addresses of a person. Rob suggests that after populating the list with the possible email addresses we use http://rapportive.com to verify which one is correct. Great work! The technique has become …

The New Contacts offer to merge profiles for the same person. While it may seem attractive, make sure that you do this with your eyes open, because it cannot be undone and some data may be lost. Here is a quick explanation on what happens. Below are two profiles of the same person; no questions about it. Profile #1: Profile …

“I firmly believe the CPSP programs to be superior to AIRS.” says one of the many comments on this SourceCon post, comparing the options for Talent Sourcers’ certifications. Jeremy Roberts, a friend and the new SourceCon editor, in his yesterday’s post  Should a Talent Sourcer Be Certified? writes: “In many industries, there is one certification that stands out as THE certification for the …