A Few Words About Yandex
Yandex.com is the third major global English search engine (it searches – obviously – in Russian – and other...
Category: Boolean Strings
The Best of 2021
Thank you for reading my blog! 1,80000 views and counting. 1,600 Recruiters took The CDSP Sourcing Certification Program for...
20 LinkedIn Profile X-ray Strings for 2022
By current job title: site:linkedin.com,/in intitle:”salesforce consultant” By current company: site:linkedin.com,/in intitle:oracle By any company: site:linkedin.com,/in “amazon graphic” Company...
Scrape X-Ray for Research Including Diversity
I have a demanding client who keeps sending me challenging sourcing requests, needing more than Boolean Search in...
Talent Sourcing and #OSINT
Only recently (I think) have we realized that our paths cross. Both Sourcers (and Recruiters who source) and OSINT...
Notes from the LinkedIn Field
The field of LinkedIn.com search is currently, unfortunately, full of bugs. Following up on and expanding my last post,...
LinkedIn Boolean Is Crazy
Searching on LinkedIn costs many Recruiters low self-esteem. When you see results you did not expect, you may blame...
Big Data for Executive Search
Research is a vital part of executive search. You need to be knowledgeable about the industry, the candidate’s...
Change Your Thinking, Rewrite Your Search Strings
Successful Sourcers know the main – secret! – principle of productive search: “Imagine the words and phrases exactly as...
How to Clean Up CSV Export
As Sourcers, we have to work with exported data. LinkedIn Recruiter, Instant Data Scraper, and other scraping tools provide...
The US vs Europe: Cultural Differences
I recently gave a private training which included an overview of cultural differences. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I moved...
Whom to Follow
Speakers and Sourcers David Galley (US) Glenn Gutmacher (US) Aaron Lintz (US) Andre Bradshaw (US) Glen Cathey (US) Guillaume...
Sourcers vs. Recruiters: I Have Changed My Mind
When I started sourcing and teaching sourcing, I believed that Sourcers should be separate. Sourcers are nerdy, introverted, and...
Asterisk * vs. AROUND(X) on Google
Both the Asterisk * and AROUND(X) are proximity operators on Google and provide their own benefits. The Asterisk stands...
Can You X-Ray for Profiles? A Simple Test
Can you X-Ray for profiles on LinkedIn, XING, Facebook, Instagram, Github, Stackoverflow, Meetup, Behance, Quora, Slack, Discord, Snapchat, VK,...
LinkedIn Profile SEO: How to Be Found
Based on my experience sourcing on LinkedIn, here is a list of profile hacks. To be found more often,...
Why Step Outside of LinkedIn Recruiter?
I have just finished a project sourcing iOS Developers across Europe who got top grades at school. It turns...
Googling for Invisible Words
Sometimes, Google indexes words from the pages’ source code that do not appear on pages. This includes the alt...
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...