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Revisit Social List & Contact Finder in 2020

Developed by “Sourcers Who Code,” Social List is worth your attention in 2020. Especially so, given how poorly LinkedIn...

Free Webinar “Sourcing Skills Assessment and Development”

You are invited to a rare free webinar on Wednesday, January 22nd “Sourcing Skills Assessment and Development”. Are you...

Webinar “Sourcing Skills Assessment and Development”, Now with Recording

You are invited to a rare free webinar on Wednesday, January 22nd “Sourcing Skills Assessment and Development”. [Edited: please...

Tool Alert: OneSearch.com

Hello Sourcers: A brand-new “privacy-first” web search engine OneSearch.com from Verizon is out. Unlike Google, Bing, or Yandex, OneSearch...

“Sourcing Answers” (Skills Assessment)

I am happy to announce a new eBook, “Sourcing Answers,” that David Galley and I have just e-published. We...

How to Search for Bios on Github

Just like we can’t search for LinkedIn headlines within LinkedIn or by X-Raying, we can’t search for Github...

Hack: Use 500 Keywords, Not 32, on Google

Google’s limit of keywords is 32. It’s a challenge for long OR searches, especially for diversity sourcing – for...

Googling: Science or Art?

When Google started out, it had a database of indexed pages searchable by keywords and advanced search operators such...

Only 20% Queries Need to Be Boolean

Sourcing includes three types of search: Research – finding info on terminology, target companies, schools, job titles, locations, and...

Numrange, BERT, and Natural Intelligence

There are two significant recent developments in Google’s algorithm. Google’s Operator Numrange is back! Numrange seems to be...

Knowledge Graph Objects in Google CSEs (True Semantic Search!)

As I was finishing the “Hacks” slides for my favorite conference, Sourcing Summit Europe, I stumbled across something...

New: Google College Search

While Google has posted a blog about college search, they did not tell us how to get to that...

Talent Pipeline Decline?

One of the few paid Sourcing tools I use is RPS (LinkedIn Recruiter, or LIR, for Agencies). It is...

How to Restore Image Search Functions

Quite unfortunately, Google has just removed three useful options in its Image Search: Option “Face” from “Types”, Option “Photos”...

Do You Do Executive Job Title Research?

Often, especially when sourcing for executives, we need to answer questions like these): What are possible job titles at...

How to Do Executive Job Title Research