LinkedIn Hack: Search Past the Present Pair
Guest Post from Talent Sourcer Mike Santoro Perhaps the most famous “pair” in recruiting and sourcing search strategy is...
Category: Boolean Strings
Sourcing Mathematica in Closed Networks
I want to share my experience sourcing a Mathematica Engineer (Palo Alto) on Reddit, Discord, and a professional forum....
LinkedIn Software Crisis (a Summary)
A few days ago, many functions on LinkedIn broke for several hours (you can always – and hopefully will...
Deviations from Boolean
Is Boolean (newly) broken? First, let us make it clear what we mean by the question. There are: Google...
The Shallowest Deep Web Where Hackerranker Lives
Search Engines like Google index pages on the Surface Web, i.e. (roughly speaking) pages that do not require a...
Boolean Search Is Dead
Google search strings are often called Boolean Strings. But do you think Google search is Boolean? It is not....
Hide-and-Seek Profiles
As my friend Master Sourcer Marcel van der Meer demonstrates, 84 MLN LinkedIn members will not be found by...
LinkedIn Job Search Is Haunted
Happy Halloween! I’ll just leave this here. If anyone can make sense of what LinkedIn Job Search does in...
Who Needs LinkedIn Recruiter? X-Ray vs. LinkedIn Search Comparison Chart
LinkedIn.com LinkedIn Recruiter Google X-Ray (finds public profiles) Google Example Name Y Y intitle: site:linkedin.com/in intitle:”phil tusing” Current Job...
Advanced Sourcing School and #CPSP Exam & Catch Up on the News
Hello Sourcers and Recruiters: On October 25th, 2022, we are launching our most substantial live training program for Recruiters...
Researchers: Run “Restrictive” Google Strings
The post reflects my current understanding of how Google works. I hope to share extra detail with you as...
The Behavior of the Quotes (Google Search Bug Report)
To Whom It May Concern At Google Search: There is currently a problem with Google search, specifically, quotes. It...
Google’s Reverse Image Search Has Become a Visual Shopping Engine
If you drag an image into Google’s reverse image search, you now arrive at Google Lens. It (often): identifies...
Who Else Wants to Overcome the Invite Limit of 100?
Invitations from recruiters have become a standard practice on LinkedIn. So have invitations related to potentially doing any business...
Shaping Snippets for Scraping
In a recent post, How we’re improving search results when you use quotes, Google informed us that it would...
Sadly, 8 Months Later, LinkedIn.com Search Remains Broken
We so much depend on the platform. But LinkedIn.com people search remains broken for everyone with a premium, job...
Invisible Developers
No matter how long and complex Boolean you write, it will miss a significant percentage of qualified Software...
People Aggregators, Unique Names, and X-Ray
When assessing a people aggregator like SeekOut, Entelo, AmazingHiring, HireEZ, and others, or even the general-purpose Zoominfo, two points...
7 LinkedIn X-Ray Strings You May Not Know About
Here are seven sample X-Ray searches which may give you additional ideas on X-Raying LinkedIn: Unemployed or Recent Job...
Search for Physicians on NPINO plus a Diversity Tip
The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is an identification number for covered Healthcare providers – doctors, dentists, chiropractors, nurses, and...