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Four Major LinkedIn Sourcing Hacks

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Ten Custom Search Engines for Recruiters

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Non-Human LinkedIn Profiles

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Grow Your LinkedIn Network: 2 Do's 2 Dont's

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Search for MBA's or SPHR's on LinkedIn With a Free Account

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Thanks to Sourcing Community Contributors

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Press Release on Peoplesourcing Certifications

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Terminology Question: #Sourcing

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LinkedIn Keywords Boolean Search Is Compromised

Some of us, when starting a new search, go to LinkedIn, type a few terms - including, perhaps, a title and some skills - into the Keywords field in people search and try to assess the volume of potential candidates. However, if you do so, your answers may be flawed.The LinkedIn Boolean Search Help article tells us, "If your…See More

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Four Major LinkedIn Sourcing Hacks

Here are some LinkedIn Sourcing News.In case you haven't noticed: LinkedIn has quietly introduced a "People" tab to its Company pages, like this one: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hewlett-packard-enterprise/people. (It is similar to the Alumni pages). We can search by location, school, the field of study, job function, skills, and connection level. It's quite useful, especially if you are looking at some…See More

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Ten Custom Search Engines for Recruiters

Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs) is a powerful Sourcing tool, that can improve your Sourcing process with new results, often faster than "regular" Google.CSE users fall roughly into three categories:End-user. If writing out search operators is not your cup of tea, you can use CSEs built by your more technical peers, without even learning advanced operators.Creator. Creating CSEs is not rocket science! They have numerous advantages. You can create…See More

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Irina Shamaeva replied to Nick Leigh-Morgan's discussion 'I'm trying to compile a list of free recruiting stuff. Any suggestions?'

"I have a collection of Sourcing tools on my blog - most tools are free: https://booleanstrings.com/tools/"

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LinkedIn Search Operators

LinkedIn has documented the operators firstname:, lastname:, title:, company:, and school:. They are redundant because we can search using the relevant textboxes. But it turns out there are many more search operators that work on LinkedIn.Below is a list of LinkedIn search operators that work with any basic or premium account, in the main search box. Many of the search…See More

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Steve Hopkins commented on Irina Shamaeva's blog post 'Find Phone Numbers by Googling for ☎, ☏, or ✆'

"This is awesome, I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for sharing this!"

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Find Phone Numbers by Googling for ☎, ☏, or ✆

Did you know that Google can search for symbols - including these: ☎, ☏, and ✆? We can use this capability to look for publicly posted phone numbers. Use an area code to find phone numbers in a target location.Here is an example:site:nl.linkedin.com…See More

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Find Phone Numbers by Googling for ☎, ☏, or ✆

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“Rapportive” without Gmail or Chrome

Recently LinkedIn switched the former Rapportive tool to become Sales Navigator extension, which works in Chrome/Gmail. We've all experienced some intermittent problems with the tool.Here is a way to uncover all that that extension does - even without the need for Chrome or Gmail. This link works in any browser - Chrome,…See More

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“Rapportive” without Gmail or Chrome

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Should You Trust All Google Tip Sheets? (No)

To the best of my knowledge, these are trustworthy, informative posts, correctly outlining Google's advanced search syntax as of now:Google Help (partial list; Google's Help no longer lists all of the operators)Advanced Power Searching Skills Quick Reference (slightly outdated; by Dan Russel of Google)…See More

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Should You Trust All Google Tip Sheets? (No)

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Three Research Tips for Recruiting Agencies

If you work at a recruiting agency, the following Boolean Strings would be useful for generating new business.1) Find people who have recently started new jobs:site:linkedin.com…See More

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If you work at a recruiting agency, the following Boolean Strings would be useful for generating new business.1) Find people who have recently started new jobs:site:linkedin.com…See More

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LinkedIn Keywords Boolean Search Is Compromised

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LinkedIn Search Operators

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LinkedIn has documented the operators firstname:, lastname:, title:, company:, and school:. They are redundant because we can search using the relevant textboxes. But it turns out there are many more search operators that work on LinkedIn.

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Find Phone Numbers by Googling for ☎, ☏, or ✆

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Did you know that Google can search for symbols - including these: ☎, ☏, and ✆? We can use this capability to look for publicly posted phone numbers. Use an area code to find phone numbers in a target location.

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“Rapportive” without Gmail or Chrome

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Recently LinkedIn switched the former Rapportive tool to become Sales Navigator extension, which works in Chrome/Gmail. We've all experienced some intermittent problems with the tool.

Here is a way to uncover all that that extension does - even without the need for Chrome or Gmail. This link…

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Should You Trust All Google Tip Sheets? (No)

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At 4:37pm on September 7, 2010, Kevin Vaughn said…: Hi, my name is Kevin and I am the operations manager for a healthcare recruiting firm in Los Angeles, CA. I’m reaching out to you because you indicated on your profile that you were in healthcare staffing and possibly open to doing some splits. We have a lot of open job orders and offer a 50/50 fee split. Would you be open to discussing ways we could collaborate from time to time?

At 12:44pm on May 21, 2010, Jay Perreault {DCTechRecruiter} said…: Irena,

Thanks for Joining the DCTech group. Please feel free to post your current openings. Also let me know if you are having challenges identifying talent. I will check around for referrals for you if you ask.

Regards,

Jay

At 4:52pm on March 27, 2009, Sophia Simon said…: Irina,

The tips you mentioned in your comment are very useful. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge.