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Here is today’s Sourcing Challenge! Find an Excel file with a list of companies with full contact info, where one column in the table will contain only this in every row (below its title): OR (yes, just like the operator OR) Email the URL for the list to [email protected] Also, email the shortest possible search string on Google or on …

These are 25 (slightly modified) of the Boolean search string samples we have discussed in the lectures in the People Sourcing Certification Program. Hope you will see some usage that will help you practice and create your search strings. These strings do not guarantee to do anything remarkable, especially if you replace keywords or if anything in Google’s Boolean syntax …

What Level People Sourcer (One or Two) can you expect to achieve if you join the Certification Program? I believe that everybody who searches for professional people online – recruiters, sourcers, sales, marketing, business development people – need to aim to answer yes to these 20 questions below, to remain competitive and productive: Do you search for professionals on Google? Are you familiar …

  Personal search is the type of search that takes into account what your online friends favor. For a researcher who wants to be objective it makes no sense to have it on. We can (and should) turn off personal results, as Google lets us. Personal search implemented by Google is at its highest power when we are logged into Google-plus. At …

  The latest Update: Congratulations to the two winners: Jeanne Darby of Volt Workforce Solutions Debra Quiat of ToysRUs – welcome to the Program! 🙂 We have a tremendous amount of interest in the upcoming People Sourcing Certifications – and the space is already filling out! Check the Press Release! http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9302124.htm This is the first program that will: cover all the material …

March 12, 2012 I am happy to announce our Sourcing Certification program. Terminology Instead of using the term “Sourcing” (as we are used to in recruiting), and per a great suggestion I got, I will call the discipline “Peoplesourcing”, which means finding information about professionals. (Recruiters call it “Sourcing”, “Candidate Sourcing”, “Talent Sourcing”, or “Internet Recruiting”; sales people are not familiar with the term …

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 …

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 …

  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 …