June 14, 2013 For those of you who have been interested in the People Sourcing Certification Program, but haven’t taken the class yet, here is an update. (If you are interested in listening to a shorter prerecorded webinar, take a look at the Training Library. If you would only like to read my posts on sourcing for now, please step back to …
LinkedIn Contacts Have Just Doubled For You
The new LinkedIn Contacts feature is buggy but it’s opening up incredible people sourcing possibilities. The terminology “contacts” and “connections” may be somewhat confusing. The all-new LinkedIn Contacts system allows LinkedIn members to merge the information about their contacts on several systems: 1) LinkedIn itself, 2) Gmail, 3) Yahoo mail, 4) Outlook, and several more sources. Here’s why this is …
Amazing! Search for Symbols in the New Contacts
The new LinkedIn Contacts functionality is simply amazing! It opens up never-before possible people sourcing explorations, and is available (albeit still very buggy) for all personal accounts, whether paid or basic. The syncing with other accounts possibility is quite like the Talent Pipeline in some ways. (More about it later). For starters, you can search for sub-strings and even for …
Hidden Names Discovery
Shane Bowen‘s tool for figuring out hidden names is great, as everything on his blog! I recommend to follow the blog. By now we have shared a number of other quick ways to figure out the hidden names with each other. You can still export a third level connection’s profile into PDF format and click the link, found in the …
Search for Everyone in Europe
This seems to be a frequently asked question: how to search for people in Europe using LinkedIn? I have decided to share my suggestions on the blog. To search for people in Europe (or anywhere across a large territory), you can do a radius search around a (sort-of) a center point in Europe and cover many countries at once. I …
Sourcing: Five Key Trends
Below are the five trends in Sourcing-2013, which I feel are important, that I’d like to discuss. (I presented them as a slide in a presentation at the Sourcing Summit NZ; I will write a separate post about the event, which was great in many ways!). I’ll start with some background explanations. With the points ONE and TWO below I …
Contest Announcement – Win a Seat in the People Sourcing Certification Program!
Hey Sourcing Community! We are giving away TWO free seats (one Level 1 seat, and one Level 2 seat) for the People Sourcing Certification Program (http://sourcingcertification.com/). Two lucky winners will be randomly selected from the top 10 people who score the most points. Here is how you can earn points: 1 Point – Share/+1 the Program event on Google Plus …
Aaron Lintz: Diamonds Are Forever
This is a guest post from Aaron Lintz. He shares some innovative ways of using LinkedIn Recruiter to support efficient sourcing for his team of recruiters. No matter whether you are a LinkedIn Recruiter user or not, this is a worthwhile reading as a lesson in strategic thinking, creativity, and working around the system limits. Thanks to Aaron for sharing! – Irina …
Easy Sourcing with NO Boolean: May 8
Join us for a Webinar on May 8: Sourcing with NO Boolean In the context of searching for professional backgrounds “Boolean” usually means Google’s language with the use of advanced search operators. In my teaching experience, the “Boolean” seems to be a cause for frustration and a blocking factor, generating “the wrong” search results and preventing some of our colleagues …
Upcoming Events
I am not a fan of the airline travel, but some events are so interesting, it’s hard to resist going! The next few months are going to be the seriously “eventful” for me, packed with both in person and online events. Here are some events that are coming up. April 30, 2013, Tuesday (virtual) People Sourcing Certification Program – Free …