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 …
Find Almost Anybody’s Email Address with #LinkedIn
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 …
Do Not Merge #LinkedIn Profiles
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 …
@SourceCon Lists Four Certifications. There’s a Clear Winner
“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 …
The Signal Is Gone… Now What?
The LinkedIn Signal is gone. Alas, there’s not much that can replace Signal! There are also some limits affecting 3rd party vendors on providing any services that rely on LinkedIn profile data. Here is what I know about. Finding Profile Updates (1) This link http://www.linkedin.com/in/updates does seem to list every updated profile. But this cannot be possibly used by sourcers without having some …
LinkedIn Contacts Is Not for Adding Connections
Before you look into the new LinkedIn Contacts you might think that it’s designed for LinkedIn members to bring in their friends and connections from other networks and invite them to connect. But, while the LinkedIn Contacts have amazing functionality (seriously), this is not what they are for. Surprised? Take a look at the screenshot below. The grayed out “in” buttons …
The Entelo Button
Entelo is one of the top, established Dream Software players, aggregating profiles from all over the social web and allowing us to search across the database of the aggregated profiles. As the rest of the current players, TalentBin, Dice Open Web (formerly theSocialCV), Gild, RemarkableHire, and Swooptalent, to name a few, Entelo is solving the challenging task of combining the data for the …
Sourcing Mini-Challenge: 3 Mysterious Screenshots
Hi Everyone, If you feel like hanging out by the computer a little longer, here’s a little 3-part summer fun Sourcing Challenge for you. I have used my “Contacts” on LinkedIn for the screenshots below. CONTEST: For each of the screenshots, please explain: A) what sort order was selected. B) why the search has brought up these results. (1) (2) (3) …
#Tip: Searching Internationally
I’d like to share a tip on how to narrow your search down to the profiles of professionals in a given country. My examples will be LinkedIn-X-ray-based, but these are applicable to other types of searches. Some Americans may not even know that, but outside of the US Google offer to narrow the searches down to the pages in the local …
There’s No AND
Fellow colleagues who work on perfecting your command of the search syntax on Google. Here’s something I’d like to make more visible. Google does not support the AND operator. It is not listed in its help. It would not make a difference if you include it in your search with any sort of capitalization: and, AND, or ANd. Here’s an …