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Reasons for Sourcing Certifications The Boolean Strings Group and Network have become by far the largest community of sourcers online. Together with two other groups I moderate, Twitter, Google-Plus, and Facebook for Sourcing and Recruiting and Social Media Recruiting Group we have 30K+ members interested in sourcing technologies.  This blog is also part of my contribution to the sourcing community; it has had 140K+ visitors and is enjoying …

It seems that changes to online search happen so quickly now that the only permanent skill we need to have is the ability to be on top of the news. Google search is changing as we speak. Pretty much all of the available online “cheat-sheets” or guides to search are outdated. Even Google’s own help pages say  “Some of this …

Recruiters and Sourcers: Do your potential candidates reply to your introductory messages? I’d like to share our experience on what works and what doesn’t. It seems to us that email as a way to initially reach “passive candidates” is quickly dying, if not dead already. In rare cases – and only when when it’s personalized – do we get replies. The phone …

  Many thanks to Hung Lee, the @Wise_Man_Say, for triggering this heated discussion on the Boolean Strings group: Can Boolean Search….be automated? It seems that there’s much confusion about terminology but most people use Internet search and Boolean search as synonyms (which is fine). But there are still perceptions that: Sourcing equals “Boolean” searching Searching is rocket science and is only for …

Do you have the time to search for each type of document and on every document storage site? Here are two Custom Search Engines to help with that: http://bit.ly/formatfinder https://bitly.com/documentfinder The first search engine http://bit.ly/formatfinder searches for documents of several most popular formats: PDF, Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Text. I’ll be adding more later. Those who are fluent in Boolean search know that …

Join us for a Webinar on February 2nd Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/779143194 (Repeating for those who couldn’t make it last time.) The webinar is for all recruiters and sourcers who are open to increasing their productivity and are interested in finding out more about specific sourcing techniques, Boolean strings, and search engines that they …

We are about to announce the details of the Sourcing Challenge sponsored by @TheSocialCV The challenge comes along with a free one week long trial available for all members of the Boolean Strings Network members, from 9AM January 31 till February 6. You will find the sign-up link on the site, along with some video-information on the product. (I wrote a …

  Here is a custom search engine that looks for LinkedIn profiles. Enter a name or a keywords and see the results: LinkedIn Profiles Now, let’s search, for example, for physician cardiology diagnostics MD “Greater Atlanta Area” Let’s exclude the word “recruiter” from the above search: physician cardiology diagnostics MD “Greater Atlanta Area” -recruiter We got fewer results. Contest warm-up: Did …

It is amazing how “gossip” and false rumors spread online! This post Google Search Showing Results For Punctuation Marks points to this post Google Search, Punctuation Marks and Other Symbols and viola – big news is made. Did any of the people who re-tweeted it try it out? Here is a very simple example that shows it doesn’t work. As the …

Yesterday morning I got an email from one of my webinar attendees who is a Sales and Marketing Manager. “I search LinkedIn a lot for lead generation confirmation.”, he writes,  “I would like to select a name and search directly in LinkedIn only. Can you help direct me on the set up?” Here is how to set this up. Download Chrome …