Searching for Persons on the Internet Using Semantic Markup

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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

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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

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  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

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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 …

Excluding the Wrong Sites from Search Results

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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 …

Webinar: Productivity Tools and Techniques for Sourcing

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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 …

Researching Corporate Email Formats

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  If we know someone’s name, company, and email format(s) used at the company, chances are that we could construct that business email address. Here are some ways to figure out the email format(s) specific companies are using. 1. Collections of Formats Online collections of corporate email formats have been shared across our groups. I will list some of them …