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Online Lead Generator This custom search engine will look for Excel files with lists of people, including their names, titles, companies, and contact information. To find lists that are relevant to your business, you can use Boolean strings with target companies’ names (ibm.com OR accenture.com or target titles (Director OR “Vice President”) . You can also try generic keywords that point to lists, such …

This Custom Search Engine  Search .gov .com .org .edu will search only domains with one of the four extensions. You can refine the results to see results from only one of them (such as .gov).

I used to have a friend who was known for making lists of lists. Here are two lists: 1) “sourcers” lists and 2) “recruiters” lists on twitter (do you have one? do you follow one?): http://twitter.com/animal/sourcers http://twitter.com/braingain/sourcers (this one is mine) http://twitter.com/carolmahoney/sourcers http://twitter.com/carolynkammeyer/recruiters-sourcers http://twitter.com/Craig_Silverman/sourcers http://twitter.com/gutmach/sourcers http://twitter.com/jescobar856/sourcers http://twitter.com/Job_Spot/west-coast-sourcers http://twitter.com/Kristen_Durkin/sourcers http://twitter.com/recruiterdotcom/sourcers http://twitter.com/RecruitingSuite/sourcers-recruiters http://twitter.com/rithesh/sourcers http://twitter.com/206techjobs/recruiters http://twitter.com/abbas25/recruiters http://twitter.com/AbbyDalzell/recruiters http://twitter.com/Acadia4U/recruiters http://twitter.com/alexbreezer/recruiters http://twitter.com/alexlerner/recruiters http://twitter.com/AlexSherstinsky/recruiters http://twitter.com/AllAboutCareers/graduate-recruiters http://twitter.com/almoshttp://twitty/recruiters …

It’s great to have tools that sort, browse and filter our search results. This saves time – and may allow us to perform more loose searches knowing that we can parse results later and go through them quickly. The best set of free tools I know of, and many of you have heard of it as well, is called Outwit. …

Ten People Search Engines… and Two Custom Engines Which people search engines do you use? The first four in the list below are my favorites. One extra criteria for me, in addition to getting good info, is convenient and friendly user interface. ZoomInfo Jigsaw Pipl Tweepz (for Twitter) www.peekyou.com http://wink.com www.123people.com www.zabasearch.com http://people.yahoo.com www.spokeo.com I also X-ray spoke.com, looking for email addresses, …

The main reason why Boolean search strings don’t work is syntax errors – that are, in fact, easy to fix. Google, Yahoo, Bing, LinkedIn are very picky about the ways we express what we are looking for – but it’s not hard to adjust to ways they want us to talk to them. Let’s take a look at some examples …

Google allows us to keep the preferences for the number of the results per page, but there are no user-friendly ways to keep some other favorite options. One way to do that is through the URL of the search page. It may look cryptic at first but let’s be brave and try to alter the URL and see how it affects …

Resumes and interviews have not changed a whole lot, but sourcing has, and there’s a big need for recruiters to get up to speed. I believe that all companies, especially large corporations, need either to help recruiters to learn web sourcing skills, or hire sourcers, or do both. If you “post and prey” you might still be just fine but …

Join us for a Webinar on July 16th (Friday). Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/303840850 This webinar is for Boolean “beginners”, beginner-to-intermediate level sourcers, “old-school” recruiters wanting to jump on the web sourcing bandwagon, and for those who use the web for sourcing but are questioning whether they are using the best available tools in the …