My first (fun!) experience with SourceCon was attending the conference in San Diego back in 2010, after I won the SourceCon challenge in 2009. The final challenge, won by Katharine @TheSourceress was an amazing explosion of creativity. Those were the days, my friend! I am coming back to SourceCon as a speaker at the upcoming SourceCon-2013 in Atlanta, GA. If you are also …
Do Not Miss the Tool
http://falcon.io/ is called “Rapportive for the web.” but it may be a bit misleading. Many of us have used Rapportive and love it. I often go to Rapportive before getting with someone on the phone, as a good way to “Google” the person when I know the email address. (Of course, its “official” integration with LinkedIn is priceless.) Falcon is not …
People Sourcing Training: Cool Graphics
I am excited about the first upcoming session of the People Sourcing Certification Program in 2013! We begin on January 29th. Enrolled already are: Apple, Dell, PwC, Capgemini, All-State Insurance, Verizon… US, UK, Canada, Australia, India… Our international team is growing and we are on our way to become the world-wide standard for training and measuring the skills in our …
Webinar: People Sourcing and Name Generation without LinkedIn
Join us for a Webinar on January 22 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/581053314 This webinar will cover name generation as well as searching for hidden profiles of target professionals. Who should attend: Recruiters, Recruitment Managers, Teams, Sourcers, Staffing Managers, Talent Hunters, Inside Sales Managers, Business Development, Executive Search Firms, Searchers, Researchers, and Hiring Managers. Some …
How to Source on Github
Some professional sites with software developer population that charge recruiters arm and leg to access the user data, like stackoverflow, are quite hard to search. It’s possible, but it’s not easy. Github is a place where excellent developers hang out, that provides its own clean ways to search for its content – and its users: If you are not a …
Non-Human LinkedIn Profiles
LinkedIn says it has reached 200 million profiles. It is a great number! I do love LinkedIn and I care about its growth. People Sourcers know for a fact that LinkedIn is an incredibly rich source, the best world-wide, even if the claimed number of profiles was larger than the number of real live professionals on LinkedIn. LinkedIn …
One LinkedIn Tool You May Not Have Discovered…
… and yet it is a powerful sourcing tool, and it is free to use. (For the basic account it is also free, but you need to know your ways around to view the results. I will explain below.) I am talking about the LinkedIn Signal. Even if you have the topmost account and all the power of people searching available …
Live AND Learn (Important Clarifications on Search Syntax)
Let’s start 2013 with a discussion of some basic, yet little known, aspects of the two main search engines syntax rules. I believe these are very important to know in order to have fewer of those either “What am I doing wrong?” or “Why is Google search not working?” questions (coming up, depending on the personality). I had to clarify a …
Grow Your LinkedIn Network: 2 Do’s, 2 Dont’s
Having lots of connections is beneficial for those of us who want: to find more people with visible information in searches to be found to get referrals. (Obviously) accepting connection requests and inviting others are the two ways to grow your network. Inviting others to connect on LinkedIn is a good idea exactly in two cases: 1) They know you; …
People You Know
As the time goes, the amount of information that is available for indexing by Google goes up. The Google search engine has to compromise to keep up with the volume and still show the results in split seconds – which it does very well, while still supporting that advanced Boolean search syntax that only a tiny % of us are …