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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. But if you search by image on Google, you may be missing some results. Here is why and how to...
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Ideal Candidate and LinkedIn Recruiter
Recruiters are aware that most job descriptions lack some information necessary to source potential candidates. A job description is written to attract talent, and it is only one piece of data for...
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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 connection limit; you could see the exact numbers of connections on profiles and the 4th level...
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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 is Registered on LinkedIn in 5 Seconds or Less”. The “hack” does not reveal which member it is –...
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Google Strings vs. Boolean Strings
(Can I please ask you to read to the end?) It has eventually become such a mismatch in terminology. Most people in our industry refer to search strings on Google as “Boolean Strings”. However, the...
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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, associations, employers (for veterans), and...
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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 productive and competitive. (This is not advice on scraping or automating work on any site...
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LinkedIn.com People Search Anti-Improvements
[Edited] Phew! They have fixed it. It might have happened due to me filing an issue – once my message was communicated to Developers, the behavior went away in a few hours. Interacting with...
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X-Ray Mastery
We are lucky that Google keeps supporting its 21 advanced search operators even though most of its users never use the operators (and those who do rarely click on ads). As it is getting harder to...
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Googling for Invisible Words
Sometimes, Google indexes words from the pages’ source code that do not appear on pages. This includes the alt tag, dd tag, and a few other cases. Here are some practical search examples. You can...
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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 out, LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) does not search in the grades! I couldn’t search by “first...
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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, both on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter, do this: When you enter your data, follow prompts and...
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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, Slideshare, CrunchBase, etc.? There is a simple way to...
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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 for one word or a few shorter words. “<keyword1> * <keyword2>” will...
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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 know the technologies. (As an introvert, I get tired after speaking...
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Whom to Follow
Speakers and Sourcers David Galley (US) Glenn Gutmacher (US) Aaron Lintz (US) Andre Bradshaw (US) Glen Cathey (US) Guillaume Alexander (France) Victor Soroka (Ukraine) Balazs Paroczay (Hungary) Hung...
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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 to the US from Russia in 1991, having received a three-month contract as a Mac...
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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 export to CSV with the wrong coding, that may look like this: Looks...
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Change Your Thinking, Rewrite Your Search Strings
Successful Sourcers know the main – secret! – principle of productive search: “Imagine the words and phrases exactly as they should appear in the target results. Then, use those words and phrases in...
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Big Data for Executive Search
Research is a vital part of executive search. You need to be knowledgeable about the industry, the candidate’s background, and the role at your company. You need to find their contact info. Here are...
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