15 Unique Features of Custom Search Engines

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As my friends know, I have been fascinated by Google’s Custom Search Engines (CSEs) for years. I have met several colleagues who have become as addicted to CSEs as I am; I feel as if we belong to a tribe. 🙂 I remain disappointed by the apparent CSEs’ low penetration into our industry tools. Part of the undeserved unpopularity is …

Search for Women in Your Industry: 5 Tips and a Bonus

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I live in a very diverse area (and love it). Let me demonstrate what it is like in the streets and parks, when people are out, by showing a screenshot for local Python Developers (no diversity filters applied): However – search for CEOs in the same area and you will see a very different picture: (A stunning difference, isn’t it?) …

How to Correctly X-Ray LinkedIn for Headlines

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It is quite unexpected – and 99.99% of LinkedIn members do not realize that – but in LinkedIn people search, Headlines are not taken into account! (Easy to check). The Headline is the main intro on your profile that you want the world to see but you cannot be found by it. OOPS, LinkedIn. The moral of the story is …

more: Healthcare Sourcing Techniques

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In sync with the times, I want to share some Healthcare sourcing tips to implement in addition to what you are already doing. I know that sourcing for Healthcare professionals is challenging from experience. Last year, I ran a project sourcing for (bedside) Registered Nurses with 2-3 years of experience for a hospital in Texas. While LinkedIn is a site …

Competitive Intelligence from Open Datasets

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Do you know about Open (public) Datasets? Google got its Dataset Search out of Beta, and you should bookmark it. Lee Candiotti has asked this question on our group – Great question. Let’s start with ways to locate datasets, in addition to Google’s tool. You can simply Google to locate datasets. And once you start looking, it’s endless! There’s Google-owned …

Sourcing for Devs on Dev.To

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Dev.to is a relatively new site where developers discuss how to build software, and it is quite a Sourcer-friendly site. 😉 A profile can have a location, education, skills, links to other profiles, content keywords, and, often, public email contact: Internal search for members is too weak to be useful. But we can X-Ray the site for profiles like so: …

Revisit Social List & Contact Finder in 2020

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Developed by “Sourcers Who Code,” Social List is worth your attention in 2020. Especially so, given how poorly LinkedIn is serving us (growing prices, reduced functionality, confusing UX, endless bugs, irresponsive and unknowledgeable customer support). Social List is a sourcing tool that lets you instantly generate lists of target social profiles based on your requirements The tool searches for public …

How to Search for Bios on Github

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  Just like we can’t search for LinkedIn headlines within LinkedIn or by X-Raying, we can’t search for Github Bios – either within Github or by X-Raying. However, we can search for LinkedIn headlines with Custom Search Engines (CSEs). It turns out that we similarly can search for Github Bios with CSEs! We will be searching using Github X-Ray CSE. …

Hack: Use 500 Keywords, Not 32, on Google

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Google’s limit of keywords is 32. It’s a challenge for long OR searches, especially for diversity sourcing – for example, searching for women’s first names, Latino last names, or diversity colleges. I am no fan of long ORs on Google (definitely not to list synonyms for a word), but in cases like the above, or searching for target companies or …