The Program was created to keep Recruiting professionals and teams on top of all things Sourcing and Searching and to allow fair measurement of Sourcing skills. It is thriving and has evolved. We have made some changes in the format and content, based on our significant experience and user feedback. We refresh the materials in the Guidebook monthly, to reflect everything important that …
What Doesn’t Work on LinkedIn
I love LinkedIn and use it every day. LinkedIn has changed our profession, revolutionized sourcing and recruiting, and continues to be the #1 go-to site for the majority of recruiters, with no competition in sight. I am glad to share creative LinkedIn Sourcing techniques with my colleagues in blog posts, discussions, webinars, and as part of the Sourcing Certification Program. I moderate …
Work Around New LinkedIn InMail Policy in 2015
In a few days from now LinkedIn is switching to taking away the InMail points for those InMails that were not answered. There has been lots of negative reaction to the change, and rightly so. Sure, if an InMail is spam, the recipient may not answer it. But the opposite is not true: if someone doesn’t answer the InMail, it doesn’t mean that the InMail …
How to Connect if the Reason is Not Listed
(“Part One” briefly outlines some background. If you are only interested in “how-to”, please jump to the “Part Two” below. Please note, that I think that inviting others for no good reason is NOT appropriate.) Part One. Reasons to Connect LinkedIn is a business networking site, where people can “connect” with each other. Connecting provides for ways to keep each other’s contact info; …
SourcePedia: Reference and Teaser
Here’s a preview of some of the reference materials I will be sharing at the upcoming Webinar – “SourcePedia”, repeated live on Tuesday, July 15th, 2014. Seating is limited; sign up early to get your spot. (1) All the LinkedIn names for the Geo-locations, world-wide. You would need these for X-Ray searches, such as this site:www.linkedin.com/in OR site:www.linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir “location * Glasgow, United …
SourceCon Seattle 2013 Impressions
This year has been a year of many conferences for me, most of them being dedicated to sourcing: speaking at SourceCon in Atlanta in February 2013, at Sourcing Summit New Zealand in May, at Sourcing Summit Europe in Amsterdam in September (see a post about it), and just now I returned from SourceCon Seattle October 2-3, which I attended as …
#Bing Snapshot
Who likes extra mouse clicks? Who likes a zillion windows open at the same time? It’s key for people sourcing productivity to see some previews of the search results, to make quick mini-decisions about opening those extra windows. Seeing informative previews leads to staying focused, saving the sourcing costs, and enhancing the search experience. (I’ve long wanted to design and …
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 …
20 Online “Lead Generation” Sites
Recruiters, sourcers, on one hand, and sales, marketing, and business development professionals, on the other hand, perform this function as part of what we all do: find potential business contacts, or find professional profiles along with the contact information. In the recruiting world we call it Sourcing (or Internet Sourcing, as opposed to Phone Sourcing; I believe this distinction is obsolete though). …
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 …