Googling for Invisible Words
Sometimes, Google indexes words from the pages’ source code that do not appear on pages. This includes the alt...
Category: Boolean Strings
X-Ray Mastery
We are lucky that Google keeps supporting its 21 advanced search operators even though most of its users never...
LinkedIn.com People Search Anti-Improvements
LinkedIn.com people search just got more unintuitive and inconvenient. Last week, Jan Bernhart shared on our Facebook group that when...
The Future of Sourcing Is Technical (Scraping and Automation)
I think that Talent Sourcing will become more technical. We will have to use scraping and automation to stay...
Three Ways to X-Ray LinkedIn for Diversity
You can search for Diversity candidates on LinkedIn using first names, pronouns, organizations, education (including Alumni search), group memberships,...
Google Strings vs. Boolean Strings
(Can I please ask you to read to the end?) It has eventually become such a mismatch in terminology....
The Advantages of the “Wrong Password” on LinkedIn #OSINT
A more descriptive title of this post could be “Hack: Check Whether an Email Address or Phone Number...
How (and Why) to Grow Your LinkedIn Network Overnight
In 2006, Christian Mayaud came up with a genius idea of LIONs – LinkedIn Open Networks. There was no...
Ideal Candidate and LinkedIn Recruiter
Recruiters are aware that most job descriptions lack some information necessary to source potential candidates. A job description is...
Dimensions of Reverse Image Search on Google
Reverse Image Search is a favorite way to find online traces of someone by their social profile photo....
Best Site to Source Developers (Poll Results)
Last week, I ran a poll on LinkedIn- “Which site, do you think, is the best for sourcing Software...
How to Collect and Cross-Reference All Emails in Search Results
I want to tell you a fast way to collect prospects’ email addresses from Google search results pages and...
33 more: Precise Custom Searches by Sites and Across
Google Custom (Programmable) Engines are capable of finding particular values (such as someone’s location or employer) precisely with the...
Search for US Voters with Custom Search Engines #OSINT
US Voters site https://voterrecords.com contains public information. Each record has the voter’s name and other info such as addresses,...
Who Are You? The Art of Cross-Referencing, Github Example
Yesterday I saw a recruiter’s post on Facebook asking for advice on how to figure out which candidate had...
Interesting: Two File Types in Google Images #OSINT
It is new – Google Image search responds to the filetype: operator for document types such as PDF, DOCX,...
Check Your Assumptions for LinkedIn Connections’ Search
LinkedIn connections and connection levels are as old as LinkedIn itself. The underlying idea of the Social Network is...
Custom Search Engines’ Filters – Gitlab Example
Gitlab, like Github, is a platform providing a Version Control System, allowing Developers to collaborate on writing code. It...
Search in Business vs. Recruiter (Guess Who Wins)
The never-documented LinkedIn search operators make people search with a personal account – Business, Job Seeker, and Basic –...
10 Alternatives to InMail
You can reach prospects who ignore your LinkedIn InMails in at least ten different ways. I am sure you...