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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; …

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 …

Did you know that LinkedIn has over 42K members who list MBA as part of their last name? It also has over 20K people listing CPA as part of the last name, over 30K PHR‘s, 22K+ SPHR‘s, thousands of PhD‘s (or Ph.D‘s), etc. For this search to be of any use, you will, of course, need to add your target …

For my US-based colleagues, have a happy and safe Thanksgiving! Our Boolean Strings – The Internet Sourcing Community on the Ning Network has grown to 5,300+ members  and the LinkedIn “Boolean” Group has grown to 17,600+ members, freely sharing sourcing knowledge and tips with each other and providing questions and answers for each other, as well as creating whole libraries with sample searches. …

If you log out of LinkedIn and look at its home page, you will find some invaluable information, including a list of 100 countries that have their own URL’s. The exception is the US profiles that have the www beginning along with many smaller countries. For your convenience and at the request from my listeners today, here is a list of the …

  I am always happy to do sourcing! With the increased volume of Internet Research/People Sourcing/Name Generation projects we have started using a simple Checklist for clients that I would like to share. Here are the questions: Filled out by: Date: Job/Role Description (attach) Notes (what is key; what makes it hard; where you have looked) Preferred Delivery (Resumes: y/n; LinkedIn …

NEW DATE! Join us for a Webinar on November 15 [The webinar on Nov 6 was full. Repeating on Nov 15th.] Attendees have signed up from: Nike, Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Verizon Wireless, Motorola, Oracle, Staples, The Home Depot, The Footlocker, Experis, E&Y, IBM, Accenture, Gartner, Tata Consulting, Wells Fargo, United Health, Kforce, Randstad, Adecco, and Futurestep, to name a just few …

Resourcing in the UK. Part 3: Regions and Titles on LinkedIn Here is the third of a series of hands-on examples – based on some specific searches in the UK – on how to use some People Sourcing concepts. (See the posts One/Twitter and Two/Google.) The same techniques can be applied to searches elsewhere. I’d like to discuss geographical regions as they are phrased …

Here is the second of a series of hands-on examples – based on some specific searches in the UK – on how to use some People Sourcing concepts. The same techniques can be applied to searches elsewhere. I’d like to discuss following a list of people on Twitter.   Let’s start with creating a list of people, in this case, UK-based recruiters. I think …

Good People Sourcing (or Resourcing, as they are called in some places) methods are, of, course, independent of industry and geography. Here is the first of a series of hands-on examples – based on some specific searches in the UK – on how to use some People Sourcing concepts. The same techniques can be applied to searches elsewhere.   Suppose we would like …