We’ve recently had a good (and still ongoing) discussion on the Boolean group on How to find LinkedIn profiles that have a resume embedded into the page via slideshare.net. I thought it might be useful to summarize the main points. While Slideshare is now part of LinkedIn, there’s not a whole lot we can do regarding searching for the Slideshare documents attached …
Searching for Persons on the Internet Using Semantic Markup
Since search engines index all sorts of pages, finding the pages only with profiles of people is a challenging task. Our usual way to find profiles only is: Narrow down the search to a site that has profiles (X-Ray). Add some keywords common to all profiles and rarely found on other pages (often in the titles or URLs of the profiles), and …
How to Source on About.Me
When a specific site may have target professionals, there are always two complementary ways to try to source them from the site: Deep Web Search, i.e. using the site’s search dialog(s) X-Ray, i.e. searching for the information on the Surface Web, using a search engine’s (typically, Google’s) operator site: Let’s apply the two approaches to sourcing on the site About.me. …
Diversity Associations Custom Search Engine
We all know how much positive influence diversity provides in the workplace. As a follow-up to our recent, well-attended and appreciated Sourcing for Diversity Webinar, and to help to source from diversity pools of candidates, I’d like to share the new Custom Search Engine (CSE). Public URL: Diversity Associations CSE Shortcut: https://bitly.com/diversity-assoc Here is how to use it: enter a location …
Custom Search Engines Hack: Get 1,000 Results
Google’s Custom Search Engines (CSEs) can be useful in many ways. They provide a way to hide advanced search operators from your colleagues who are less technically inclined; they don’t bug advanced researchers with annoying Captchas; and they provide some interesting possibilities beyond those of “regular” Google. Unfortunately, currently the “official” limit of the number of the search results in a CSE is …
X-Ray LinkedIn
Find LinkedIn Profiles:
Excluding the Wrong Sites from Search Results
In the previous post Excluding Non-Resumes: Be Positive I explained how to “think positively” and get non-resumes out of the way when searching for resumes. There’s a different type of “wrong” results that cannot be removed by this strategy. These come from sites that make a special effort to be shown in the search results. Paid sites that offer resume search certainly …
I Am Human
This CSE prevents Google from bugging you showing Captchas to be filled out, suspecting you are a bot and not a person: Public link: Search Like a Human – just search for anything without being tested for not being a bot.
Email Formats
This CSE helps to find out the email format (sometimes called “email pattern”) for a given company. Public link Example uses: Emails for GE.com Emails for Dell.com Emails for Pfizer.com
Webinar: Productivity Tools and Techniques for Sourcing
Due to numerous requests, I am repeating the Productivity Tools and Techniques for Sourcing webinar on Thursday January 23rd, 2014. Seating is limited. Join me to get the full coverage of the most important techniques – and over 50 (fifty) tools – for maximizing your Sourcing and Recruiting productivity in 2014. I will show several use case scenarios of combining some easy-to-use tools …