[The webinar is over. Please check the Downloads section for available training materials, or let me know if you’d want to arrange training on related topics.] LinkedIn is a fantastic resource for finding candidates, referrals, jobs, new business, and making your business known. It is not a smooth ride for us since LinkedIn keeps changing in all sorts of ways. Information …
7 #LinkedIn Changes and Sending Messages
Life is not boring if you are a sourcer or a recruiter and use LinkedIn; most of us do. Here is a brief list of several major recent changes on LinkedIn that affect our work for sure. Please feel free to add to this in the comments. Company search. We have many “facets” to search for available in the newly implemented …
The Sourcer Starter Set
[Sorry – this offering has been discontinued; check the download page for available materials] While I can’t possibly support hundreds of people who requested the “top 25 search strings”, here I am offering affordable support and advice. The list of strings alone may not be that helpful; it doesn’t contain instructions as to how to use it. Here is a …
Use Boolean on Google? Check This Out
Let me get straight to the point. It seems like the Boolean operator AND – that is supposed to be implied – now does make a difference on Google. Compare, for example, digital AND games AND advertising Nyc | new-york “account manager ” intitle:resume OR inurl:resume -jobs with digital games AND advertising Nyc | new-york “account manager ” intitle:resume OR …
Webinar: How to Customize the Top 25 Boolean Strings
Join us for a Webinar on March 9 [The webinar is over. Please check the Downloads section for available training materials, or let me know if you’d want to arrange training on related topics.] Jump-start your sourcing capabilities and reach.Lists of Boolean strings and templates can help recruiters, sourcers, and hiring managers who know how to customize them for their own use. …
X-Raying LinkedIn May Be Coming to an End
(For those not familiar with the terminology, X-ray means using the operator site: on Google or on Bing/Yahoo.) Search for profiles on LinkedIn by using X-ray has been one of the favorite sourcing techniques. The reason why this has been possible is that LinkedIn allowed its members to have “public profiles” with quite a bit of info, visible to search engines. You …
How Search Works
I have tried to define how search works – in one page. In reality things are more complicated than this. However, I believe that understanding search mechanisms even a little bit helps searching. Here you go: Internet search engines: …crawl the web, going through links and memorizing the content of pages. A page has little in terms of …
The 25 Search Strings and Search Methodology
For those who wanted to see the top 25 strings: I am afraid that this post will not be what you expect, but I hope it will be useful, so please read on! Well, it’s not that I have changed my mind about sharing them. I love sharing my sourcing knowledge in posts, lectures, and presentations. When I do sourcing …
7 Best Practices for Searching
While sourcing is not just about search, the search is a critical part of it. I’d like to discuss the seven Best Practices around SEARCH as the key element of sourcing. Here you go. 1. Research before you search. If you have a job opening and are looking for candidates, figure out the title synonyms, major keywords, target companies, geography, certifications, organizations, conferences, places …
Open Groups on #LinkedIn
Open Groups on LinkedIn is a great idea! (I have been long complaining how I wanted at least job posts on groups to be open to all.) Open groups add valuable content to the “surface”, searchable web. There are several ways recruiters can benefit from the new feature. Here are a couple of suggestions. 1. When you post a job on an …