Announcing a Sourcing Contest/Quiz. (It’s not easy!) Please post your answers as replies to this post. Replying only to some questions, and replying several times is allowed. Repeating someone’s correct answer is fine but will score lower, unless you add some nice explanations or examples. (So the sooner you get some answers in, the more advantage you have!) Repeating …
Welcome #LinkedIn Updates
To learn more about LinkedIn from this post, simply start at the home page. Log out of LinkedIn and you will then see some extra links of interest at the bottom of the page. I already wrote about the LinkedIn titles in a recent post. The Title Directory provided on the LinkedIn home page doesn’t have the search function, but you can navigate using searches like this. Another welcome …
New! #LinkedIn Shows Structured Profile Data on the Surface Web
This is recent: LinkedIn has exposed more of its data to search engines than before, thus allowing us to do some people search using X-ray (i.e. the operator site:). I am talking about a large set of data below the URL “linkedin.com/title” (please note: “title” here is simply part of the URL – not an operator or a keyword). To …
Advanced Custom Search Engine: “Online Lead Generator”
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 …
Search .gov .com .org .edu
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).
Custom Search Engine: “Document Finder” #Sourcecon
The #sourcecon 1st challenge is out. It’s time to figure out Google Custom Search Engines! Here is a custom search engine I have just created: Document Finder (also posted on the Boolean Ning network) It has refinements for eight kinds of files: Word, PDF, Text, PPT, and more. Check it out! And here’s another new little search engine, perhaps useless …
How to Extract Candidates and Leads From #LinkedIn
Join us for a Webinar [TBD] The slides, two video recordings, and one month support for this webinar are available (for a limited time only). Would you like to learn how to overcome LinkedIn limitations and reach the right people?LinkedIn has a very large collection of business data. However, it is not at all like Job Boards with resumes (even for …
Searching in Different Directions on #LinkedIn
As promised, here’s an essay on variations in searching. Suppose I am looking for Mobile Software Engineers in the San Francisco Bay Area. (As a matter of fact, I am!) Here are some ways I would be looking for my candidates on LinkedIn: In the Current Title, put Software (Developer OR Engineer OR Lead OR Architect OR Consultant) and in the keywords, put …
#Sourcing Goals
Some sourcers are a bit of “perfectionists“; they aim to craft the perfect searches. While (I admit!) I could enhance that side of my personality, I would like to offer some thoughts that may help you struggle less and feel more at ease while sourcing. In our group and network discussions you may come across something like: “this Google search …
A Hint on Optimizing Company Profiles on #LinkedIn
Search Engine Optimization is a tricky area. But it’s less tricky on LinkedIn than on Google and Bing. Here is a top hint on how to make your company profile be one of the first listed in a keyword search. Let’s look at what LinkedIn writes on their blog about their new company search algorithm: “When searching for a company, we …