Irina Shamaeva's Posts - RecruitingBlogs2024-03-28T09:57:04ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaevahttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1526722078?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=30iw3t8beks5&xn_auth=noYour LinkedIn Profile SEOtag:recruitingblogs.com,2021-10-10:502551:BlogPost:22770462021-10-10T12:13:44.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-209986 align-center" height="363" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/profile-picture-circle-hd.png" width="459"></img> Based on my experience <a href="https://sourcingcertification.com/masteringrecruiter/">sourcing on LinkedIn</a>, here is a list of profile hacks.</p>
<p>To be found more often, both on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter, do this:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you enter your data, follow prompts and selections – do not enter unusually spelled names</li>
<li>Use your industry, not your company’s</li>
<li>Your companies should point to company pages on LinkedIn; same for schools</li>
<li>Use…</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-209986 align-center" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/profile-picture-circle-hd.png" alt="" width="459" height="363"/>Based on my experience <a href="https://sourcingcertification.com/masteringrecruiter/">sourcing on LinkedIn</a>, here is a list of profile hacks.</p>
<p>To be found more often, both on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter, do this:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you enter your data, follow prompts and selections – do not enter unusually spelled names</li>
<li>Use your industry, not your company’s</li>
<li>Your companies should point to company pages on LinkedIn; same for schools</li>
<li>Use standard job titles (e.g., “Software Developer” not “Chief Coder”)</li>
<li>Do not enter years of study – this way, you will be found by any range of years of study</li>
<li>Add a degree or certification abbreviations to your last name<ul>
<li>Otherwise, do not abbreviate words</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>LinkedIn does not search for words in the “Accomplished” sections. If you graduated with honors, got certified, or won a competition, say so in summary</li>
<li>Do not put closing dates on the last few jobs – you will then be found for each keyword in the job titles or companies<ul>
<li>You can add a fake job with just the title you want - or say it in the headline</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Explain your skills and experience either in summary or in the last 1-2 position descriptions:<ul>
<li>What have you done, and what was achieved?</li>
<li>Write concrete facts and figures; do not praise yourself</li>
<li>Vary the ways you speak about the job, phrase your skills in different ways</li>
<li>Run Grammarly</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Take skill quizzes</li>
<li>Add 50 standard skills to your profile</li>
<li>Add languages knowledge</li>
<li>Go easy on your part-time activities, hobbies, and family</li>
<li>Be alone in your profile picture</li>
<li>Get at least 500 c<a href="https://booleanstrings.com/2021/08/06/how-and-why-to-grow-your-linkedin-network-overnight/">onnections with LIONs</a></li>
<li>Add a publicly visible email address to your profile</li>
<li>Join relevant groups</li>
<li>Share content on your timeline and run polls</li>
<li>Respond to others’ professional content, @mention them</li>
<li>Attach your resume to the profile and say so up front in summary</li>
<li>Do not change default settings except email notifications</li>
<li>Get a premium account and allow everyone to message you</li>
<li>Turn on “Open to Work” when you are ready</li>
</ul>
<p>To find LinkedIn members who will have missed this post, take <a href="https://sourcingcertification.com/masteringrecruiter/">LinkedIn Recruiter Mastery</a>.</p>Search in LinkedIn Business vs. Recruiter (Guess Who Wins!)tag:recruitingblogs.com,2021-06-20:502551:BlogPost:22351602021-06-20T22:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><strong><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-209556" height="319" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/linkedinsearch.png" width="492"></img></strong></p>
<p>The never-documented <a href="https://booleanstrings.com/linkedin-search-operators/">LinkedIn search operators</a> make people search with a personal account - Business, Job Seeker, and Basic - comparable or better than the most expensive subscription, LinkedIn Recruiter. Let's go over a comparison, operator by operator.</p>
<p><strong>headline:</strong></p>
<p>The operator works in LinkedIn Business (and Basic). The search for the headline is absent in…</p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-209556" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/linkedinsearch.png" alt="" width="492" height="319"/></strong></p>
<p>The never-documented <a href="https://booleanstrings.com/linkedin-search-operators/">LinkedIn search operators</a> make people search with a personal account - Business, Job Seeker, and Basic - comparable or better than the most expensive subscription, LinkedIn Recruiter. Let's go over a comparison, operator by operator.</p>
<p><strong>headline:</strong></p>
<p>The operator works in LinkedIn Business (and Basic). The search for the headline is absent in Recruiter - and altogether, "officially" on LinkedIn. It is such an omission!</p>
<p>Example: Members who are open to work: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=(headline%3Aopen%20OR(headline%3Alooking))%20(work%20OR(job))">(headline:open OR(headline:looking)) (work OR(job))</a></p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> Business</p>
<p><strong>skills:</strong></p>
<p>With a Business account, you can search for the skills that members enter. In Recruiter, it is impossible. It looks for "assumed" skills picking keywords from profiles. It is not exactly like keyword search but is close - see an example below. (How is it valuable?)</p>
<p>Example - Business vs. Recruiter</p>
<p>Members with the skill including the word "lazy" - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=skills%3Alazy">skills:lazy.</a> It shows fewer than 500 profiles that have <em>Lazy</em> Eye Treatment or <em>Lazy</em> Loading (a term in Computer Science) skills. Some also said they <em>are</em> lazy, but they are in a small minority. :)</p>
<p>In Recruiter, we get 30K+ results for the skill "lazy"(feel free to laugh!).<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-209548" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/lazy.png" alt="" width="405" height="70"/></p>
<p>Searching "lazy" as a keyword shows 49K+ results. I.e., Recruiter "assigns" a "skill" to <em>over 60%</em> of members who have the keyword somewhere on the profile - for example, work at the "Lazy Dog" restaurant. How Recruiter decides to "promote" a keyword to a "skill" it, of course, a mystery.</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> Business</p>
<p><strong>school:</strong></p>
<p>Example: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=school%3Aharvard">school:harvard</a></p>
<p>Search by the school name is absent in Recruiter.</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> Business</p>
<p><strong>fieldsofstudy:</strong></p>
<p>Example: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=fieldsofstudy%3A101001">fieldsofstudy:101001</a> (101001 is the code for "Political Science and Government")</p>
<p>The Field of Study is available in Recruiter.</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> a tie</p>
<p><strong>degree:</strong></p>
<p>Well, there "should be" an operator for the degree - but, alas, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=degree%3A200">it does not work</a> (200 is the code for Bachelors).</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> Recruiter</p>
<p><strong>startyear: endyear:</strong> (years in school)</p>
<p>Example: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=endyear%3A2022">endyear:2022</a></p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> a tie</p>
<p><strong>companytype: companysize:</strong></p>
<p>Example: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=companysize%3AI">companysize:I</a> - people who work at companies with <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/references/reference-tables/company-size-codes">10K+ employees</a>.</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> a tie</p>
<p><strong>yoe:</strong> (years of experience)</p>
<p>(<em>Note:</em> LinkedIn tells us that the "years of experience" is the number of years between starting a job and now - or ending work. But it is not precisely that because some members can be found by different years of experience: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=yoe%3A3%20AND%20yoe%3A6">yoe:3 AND yoe:6.)</a></p>
<p>In Recruiter, it is easier to search for an interval. The years are between 0 and 30. In Business, you can search for years of experience between 0 and 100.</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> a tie</p>
<p><strong>spokenlanguage: '</strong></p>
<p>The spoken language is a free-form text field on the profiles - members can enter "any" languages, ignoring the prompts for the standard ones. For example, these 11K Developers "speak" Python: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=spokenlanguage%3Apython">spokenlanguage:python</a>.</p>
<p>It is not so easy to search by the "Python" spoken language in Recruiter:<br/> <img class="aligncenter wp-image-209552" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/skills.png" alt="" width="354" height="244"/></p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> Business</p>
<p><strong>functions: seniority:</strong></p>
<p>The operators in LinkedIn Business work just the same as Recruiter selections.</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> a tie</p>
<p><strong>Years at a company or in position:</strong></p>
<p>Alas, I have not found those operators.</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> Recruiter</p>
<p><em>Also,</em> compared to Recruiter, the Business account allows Boolean search with the operators. For example, you can exclude people from a given industry. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=NOT%20(industry%3A104)">NOT (industry:104)</a> excludes members in Staffing and Recruiting.</p>
<p><em>Who wins:</em> Business</p>
<p>The end score:</p>
<ul>
<li>Business - 6.5 points</li>
<li>Recruiter - 4.5 points</li>
</ul>
<p></p>Hidden (Free) LinkedIn Search Operators (Who Needs Recruiter?)tag:recruitingblogs.com,2021-04-01:502551:BlogPost:22073212021-04-01T13:30:37.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-209317" height="234" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/linkedin_operators-1.png" width="420"></img></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The <a href="https://booleanstrings.com/linkedin-search-operators/">LinkedIn hidden search operators</a> are back! Nobody knows for how long they will work this time (we enjoyed them for a year and a half a while ago). But they offer any LinkedIn user, whether basic or paid, significant searching power and filters unavailable with any subscription.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LinkedIn never documented the operators,…</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-209317" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/linkedin_operators-1.png" alt="" width="420" height="234"/></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The <a href="https://booleanstrings.com/linkedin-search-operators/">LinkedIn hidden search operators</a> are back! Nobody knows for how long they will work this time (we enjoyed them for a year and a half a while ago). But they offer any LinkedIn user, whether basic or paid, significant searching power and filters unavailable with any subscription.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LinkedIn never documented the operators, apart from the less-useful <em>firstname:, lastname:, title:, company:,</em> and <em>school:</em> (all achievable via the advanced dialog). Nobody has any idea who had implemented the other ones. But the code has come alive again.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The operators were featured in Nathan Palin's <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/03/21/bellingcats-invitation-is-waiting-for-your-response-an-investigative-guide-to-linkedin/">Bellingcat’s Invitation Is Waiting For Your Response: An Investigative Guide To LinkedIn.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will find some again-working search examples earlier on <a href="https://booleanstrings.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">my blog</a>, posted when I was discovering the operators. Here are more examples:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=headline%3A%22open%20to%20remote%22%C2%A0">headline:"open to remote"</a> (this is a favorite because there is no "official" way to search for headlines - the most important profile parts!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=skills%3A%22java%20python%20software%20development%22">skills:"java,python,software development"</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=spokenlanguage%3Aitalian">spokenlanguage:italian</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=startyear%3A2010">startyear:2010</a> (start school)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=endyear%3A2010">endyear:2010</a> (end school)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=geo%3A%22mountain%20view%22">geo:"mountain view"</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=industry%3A94">industry:94</a> (aviation; note that the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/references/reference-tables/industry-codes">codes</a> have moved from LinkedIn Developer site to <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/references/reference-tables/industry-codes">Microsoft's</a>.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=seniority%3A6">seniority:6</a> (director; <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/references/reference-tables/seniority-codes">codes</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=profilelanguage%3Ade">profilelanguage:de</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=yoe%3A8">yoe:8</a></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can combine the operators and any search terms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It very well may be that there are other operators to be discovered. Profiles have <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/references/fields">tons of data</a>, of which we can search only part. But we can search better while the discovered operators last. :)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>17 Google Custom Search Engines for Sourcingtag:recruitingblogs.com,2019-08-30:502551:BlogPost:21361292019-08-30T12:43:05.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/i-am-human">Google No-Captchas</a>(a.k.a. Search Like a Human)<br></br>Public link: <a href="https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:dqo-6rxvieq">Search Like a Human</a>– just search for anything without being tested for not being a bot</li>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/email-formats">Email Formats</a> – use to discover email patterns for any corporation…</li>
</ol>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/i-am-human">Google No-Captchas</a>(a.k.a. Search Like a Human)<br/>Public link: <a href="https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:dqo-6rxvieq">Search Like a Human</a>– just search for anything without being tested for not being a bot</li>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/email-formats">Email Formats</a> – use to discover email patterns for any corporation</li>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/linkedin-countries/">LinkedIn – Countries</a>– X-Rays LinkedIn profiles; offers a dozen refinements by country</li>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/emails-in-resumes/">Emails in Resumes</a>– not only looks for resumes but also pushes email addresses in the resumes to be seen in snippets</li>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/doc-finder-storage/">Document Finder</a>– looks for documents that are stored in one of a dozen popular document storage sites, such as Slideshare</li>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/file-types/">File Types</a>– looks for certain file types such as Excel and PDF. It is helpful if you are searching for lists or resumes</li>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/software-engineers-in-bay-area/">Software Engineers in the Bay Area</a>– exactly what it says (created by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtverskaya/">Julia</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/hidden-resumes/">Hidden Resumes</a>– triggers a resume search without any search operators. It is used on the site <a href="http://hiddenresumes.com/">http://hiddenresumes.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:cvykemfonf4">Diversity Associations</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bit.ly/LinkedIn-XRay">http://bit.ly/LinkedIn-XRay</a> - just LinkedIn X-Ray</li>
<li><a href="http://bit.ly/LinkedIn-XRay">http://bit.ly/LanguageSpeakers</a> - X-Ray LinkedIn for language proficiency (search by a language name)</li>
<li><a href="http://bit.ly/developerresumes">http://bit.ly/developerresumes</a> - Developer resumes</li>
<li><a href="http://bit.ly/GithubRepos">http://bit.ly/GithubRepos</a> - find Github users by programming languages</li>
<li><a href="http://bit.ly/Find-Accountants">http://bit.ly/Find-Accountants</a> - find Accountants</li>
<li><a href="http://bit.ly/Find-Physicians">http://bit.ly/Find-Physicians</a> - find Physicians</li>
<li><a href="http://bit.ly/hiddenprofiles">http://bit.ly/hiddenprofiles</a> - find social profiles (my most popular CSE!)</li>
<li><a href="https://bit.ly/findpersons">http://bit.ly/findpersons</a> - find people on the Internet</li>
</ol>How to Do Executive Job Title Researchtag:recruitingblogs.com,2019-08-30:502551:BlogPost:21358682019-08-30T12:41:34.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-208071 align-center" height="326" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/exec.png" width="483"></img></p>
<p>Often, especially when sourcing for executives, we need to answer questions like these):</p>
<p><em>What are possible job titles at a particular level of seniority, in a given industry (or at a company), with given functions?</em></p>
<p>Equipped with this intelligence, we can start constructing filtered people searches. Without this research upfront, we would be encountering both false positives and false negatives when searching.</p>
<p>While doing open-ended searches (on…</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-208071 align-center" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/exec.png" alt="" width="483" height="326"/></p>
<p>Often, especially when sourcing for executives, we need to answer questions like these):</p>
<p><em>What are possible job titles at a particular level of seniority, in a given industry (or at a company), with given functions?</em></p>
<p>Equipped with this intelligence, we can start constructing filtered people searches. Without this research upfront, we would be encountering both false positives and false negatives when searching.</p>
<p>While doing open-ended searches (on LinkedIn, for example) and eyeballing results is useful, at times, we want to get lists of job titles that are as full as possible. For that, we can X-Ray some sites with profiles, such as Zoominfo, and scrape search results with a tool like <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-data-scraper/ofaokhiedipichpaobibbnahnkdoiiah">Instant Data Scraper</a>. In X-Rays, we'd include keywords for job titles we are looking for, such as <em>chief, head, director, senior vice president,</em> etc.</p>
<p>For example, we can search like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Azoominfo.com%2Fp+intitle%3Aaccenture+%22*+director%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:zoominfo.com/p intitle:accenture "* director"</a></p>
<p>and scrape results. We will need to clean up the collected data a little, but we can get a reasonably full list of job titles, that include the word <em>director,</em> at Accenture. Note that if we are able to get Google to highlight the <em>exact</em> job titles in the results (for example, by searching for <em>"chief * officer"</em>), we would get a clean output of the titles in a separate column with Instant Data Scraper.</p>
<p>The contact-finding site contactout.com has public profiles and we can X-Ray it in the same manner (then, scrape results):</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acontactout.com+intitle%3A%22credit+suisse%22+director+%22united+arab+emirates%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:contactout.com intitle:"credit suisse" director "united arab emirates".</a></p>
<p>Yet another site, RocketReach, can be used for the same:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Arocketreach.co+intitle%3Awalmart+intitle%3Achief+%22chief+*+officer%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:rocketreach.co intitle:walmart intitle:chief "chief * officer".</a></p>
<p>As an example output, here are the titles of Chief Officers at Walmart found with the above string:</p>
<p>Chief Administrative Officer<br/>Chief Business Development Officer<br/>Chief Communications Officer<br/>Chief Compliance officer<br/>Chief Culture Diversity&Inclusion Officer<br/>Chief Customer Officer<br/>Chief Data Officer<br/>Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer<br/>Chief Ethics Compliance Officer<br/>Chief Ethics Officer<br/>CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER<br/>Chief Information Officer<br/>Chief Information Security Officer<br/>Chief Legal Compliance Officer<br/>Chief Marketing Officer<br/>Chief Merchandising Officer<br/>Chief People Officer<br/>Chief Procurement Officer<br/>Chief Product Officer<br/>Chief Revenue Officer<br/>Chief Technical Officer<br/>Chief Technology Officer</p>
<p>Sure enough, we can also X-Ray LinkedIn for the same purpose. Constructing searches is straightforward since public LinkedIn profiles have both job titles and company names <em>in the page titles</em>.</p>
<p>We can get a combined job title list from each of these types of X-Ray searches, and this would inform our people searches.</p>LinkedIn Keywords Boolean Search Is Compromisedtag:recruitingblogs.com,2019-03-25:502551:BlogPost:21032442019-03-25T16:29:40.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-207788" height="237" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/li-boolean-2.png" width="558"></img></p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?">people search</a> and try to assess the volume of potential candidates. However, if you do so, your answers may be flawed.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/75814/using-boolean-search-on-linkedin?lang=en">LinkedIn Boolean Search Help…</a></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-207788" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/li-boolean-2.png" alt="" width="558" height="237"/></p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?">people search</a> and try to assess the volume of potential candidates. However, if you do so, your answers may be flawed.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/75814/using-boolean-search-on-linkedin?lang=en">LinkedIn Boolean Search Help article</a> tells us, "If your search has two or more terms, you'll automatically see results that include all of them." However, this is <em>not</em> true in an exceeding number of keyword searches. You need to be aware of that, not to miss matching search results.</p>
<p>Here is what happens. <em>If</em> your keywords contain terms sounding like:</p>
<ul>
<li>First and Last Names</li>
<li>Company Names</li>
<li>Job Titles (especially, titles with two or more words, following each other in the Keywords field, e.g. <em>Java Developer</em>)</li>
</ul>
<p>Then - you will <em>not</em> "automatically see results that include all of the terms". Instead, one or both of these things happen:</p>
<p><em>#1. Your search is automatically restricted to the respective profile fields - Name, Company, or Title.</em></p>
<p>For example, a search for <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetGeoRegion=%5B"gb%3A0"%5D&facetIndustry=%5B"47"%5D&facetSchool=%5B"12671"%5D&keywords=james%20smith">James Smith</a> misses some profiles that have both words, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetGeoRegion=%5B"gb%3A0"%5D&facetIndustry=%5B"47"%5D&facetSchool=%5B"12671"%5D&keywords=james%20AND%20smith">James AND Smith</a>. (I have narrowed down the example search by a few parameters, to make the differences obvious).</p>
<p><em>#2. Your search is expanded to "synonyms".</em> For example, a search for "James" may find people called "Jim" or "Jamie".</p>
<p>This sort of interpretation of first and last names has been there for a long time (and perhaps makes sense). What we are increasingly seeing at this time is Job Title-sounding words interpretation, that affects search results.</p>
<p>Here is what, for example, a (narrowed-down) search for <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrentCompany=%5B%225902%22%5D&facetGeoRegion=%5B%22us%3A472%22%5D&keywords=java%20developer%20">Java Developer</a> looks like*</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-207789" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/java-developer.png" alt="" width="489" height="375"/></p>
<p>- that does not include many profiles that have both keywords <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrentCompany=%5B"5902"%5D&facetGeoRegion=%5B"us%3A472"%5D&keywords=java%20AND%20developer">Java AND Developer</a>:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-207791" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/java-and-developer-1.png" alt="" width="435" height="205"/></p>
<p>* Note that your account may get different results from these searches.</p>
<p>When we search for the keywords <em>Java Developer</em>:</p>
<p>#1 - LinkedIn looks for people with the current or past (!) job titles including the words <em>Java</em> and <em>Developer</em></p>
<p>#2 - LinkedIn includes some people with similar past or present job titles - for example, <em>Java Engineer</em>.</p>
<p>That's it - LinkedIn will not include, for example, someone who is a Developer and has a skill Java unless they match #1 or #2 above.</p>
<p>The automatic interpretation of the search terms is not expected and not helpful. It's best to avoid it.</p>
<p>You do not have to necessarily use "ANDs" to "break your way" to true Boolean search. Simply changing the keyword order in such a way that the terms <em>don't</em> convey a job title - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrentCompany=%5B"5902"%5D&facetGeoRegion=%5B"us%3A472"%5D&keywords=developer%20java">Developer Java</a> - would "fix" the search:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-207793" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/developer-java-1.png" alt="" width="374" height="157"/></p>
<p> </p>
<p>This sort of job title-sounding search terms interpretation is inconsistent across accounts (no matter, basic or business). Different accounts get different numbers of results on the same job-title-like-sounding searches that vary quite significantly.</p>
<p>To avoid being misled:</p>
<ol>
<li>Watch for Job Title-sounding word combinations in your Keywords and avoid them.</li>
<li>Use common sense - does the number of results make sense to you or is it too small or too large?</li>
<li>Change the keyword order, rerun the search and compare.</li>
<li>Use the advanced people search dialog and <a href="https://booleanstrings.com/2018/12/06/linkedin-operators-one-more-tip-sheet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">undocumented search operators</a>.</li>
</ol>LinkedIn Search Operatorstag:recruitingblogs.com,2018-12-11:502551:BlogPost:20946062018-12-11T17:00:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/324712263?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/324712263?profile=original" style="padding: 1px;"></img></a></p>
<p>LinkedIn has documented the operators <em>firstname:, lastname:, title:, company:,</em> and <em>school</em>:. 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.</p>
<p>Below is a list of LinkedIn search operators that work with any basic or…</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/324712263?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/324712263?profile=original" class="align-full" style="padding: 1px;"/></a></p>
<p>LinkedIn has documented the operators <em>firstname:, lastname:, title:, company:,</em> and <em>school</em>:. 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.</p>
<p>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 facets I have discovered have only been available in LinkedIn Recruiter, and the operator <em>headline:</em>, uniquely, works <em>only</em> in a basic/premium account!</p>
<p><em>For each operator, you can use it with several values in the quotation marks, which means an AND of terms.</em> For example, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=headline%3A%22engineer%20senior%22">headline:"engineer senior"</a> searches for both words senior and engineer to appear in the headlines (but not for a phrase).</p>
<p>You can certainly combine the operators and use the Boolean logic.</p>
<p>Note that the values calculated by LinkedIn are less reliable than those entered by members, no matter which account you use to search (I have marked those in the last column).</p>
<p><strong>Tip Sheet - LinkedIn Search Operators</strong></p>
<table width="958">
<tbody><tr><td width="163"><strong>Operator</strong></td>
<td width="497"><strong>Meaning</strong></td>
<td width="154"><strong>Values</strong></td>
<td width="144"><strong>Calculated by LinkedIn</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>headline:</em></td>
<td>search for keywords in Headline</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>skills:</em></td>
<td>search for keywords in Skills</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>spokenlanguage:</em></td>
<td>search for language proficiency by a language name</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>startyear:</em></td>
<td>search for the start year in college</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>endyear:</em></td>
<td>search for the end year in college</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>geo:</em></td>
<td>search for a Geoname</td>
<td><a href="https://www.geonames.org/">Geonames</a></td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>title:</em></td>
<td>search for current job title</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>company:</em></td>
<td>search for current company name</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>school: </em></td>
<td>search for school name</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>firstname:</em></td>
<td>search for first name</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>lastname:</em></td>
<td>search for last name</td>
<td> </td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>industry:</em></td>
<td>search for the industry by Industry code</td>
<td><a href="https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/industry-codes">Industry Codes</a></td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>seniority:</em></td>
<td>search for seniority</td>
<td><a href="https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/seniority-codes">Seniority Codes</a></td>
<td>yes</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>profilelanguage:</em></td>
<td>search for profiles in other languages by a two-letter language abbreviation</td>
<td><a href="https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/language-codes">Language Codes</a></td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>functions:</em></td>
<td>search for functions</td>
<td><a href="https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/job-function-codes">Job Functions</a></td>
<td>yes</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>yoe:</em></td>
<td>search for “years of experience”</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>Find Phone Numbers by Googling for ☎, ☏, or ✆tag:recruitingblogs.com,2018-10-15:502551:BlogPost:20890612018-10-15T14:00:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-207411" height="328" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/phone-symbols.png" width="570"></img></p>
<p>Did you know that Google can search for symbols - including these: <strong>☎, ☏,</strong> and <strong>✆</strong>? We can use this capability to look for publicly posted phone numbers. Use an area code to find phone numbers in a target location.</p>
<p>Here is an example:…</p>
<p></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-207411" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/phone-symbols.png" alt="" width="570" height="328"/></p>
<p>Did you know that Google can search for symbols - including these: <strong>☎, ☏,</strong> and <strong>✆</strong>? We can use this capability to look for publicly posted phone numbers. Use an area code to find phone numbers in a target location.</p>
<p>Here is an example:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.nl/search?q=site:nl.linkedin.com/in+paas+software+sales+director+(%E2%98%8E+OR+%E2%98%8F+OR+%E2%9C%86)+31&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:nl.linkedin.com</a><a href="https://www.google.nl/search?q=site:nl.linkedin.com/in+paas+software+sales+director+(%E2%98%8E+OR+%E2%98%8F+OR+%E2%9C%86)+31&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">/in</a> <a href="https://www.google.nl/search?q=site:nl.linkedin.com/in+paas+software+sales+director+(%E2%98%8E+OR+%E2%98%8F+OR+%E2%9C%86)+31&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">paas</a> <a href="https://www.google.nl/search?q=site:nl.linkedin.com/in+paas+software+sales+director+(%E2%98%8E+OR+%E2%98%8F+OR+%E2%9C%86)+31&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">software sales director (☎ OR ☏ OR ✆) 31</a><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-207402" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/phones.png" alt="" width="516" height="445"/></p>
<p>Nether LinkedIn nor Facebook can search by these symbols; Twitter can, though. Searching by ☎, ☏, and ✆ when X-Raying LinkedIn is, therefore, another advantage of LinkedIn X-Ray search vs. its internal search.</p>
<p>P.S. Like this tip? Look, also, into searching by ✉.</p>“Rapportive” without Gmail or Chrometag:recruitingblogs.com,2018-04-25:502551:BlogPost:20680012018-04-25T16:09:56.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-207020 align-center" height="174" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tool.jpg" width="289"></img></p>
<p>Recently LinkedIn switched the former <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Rapportive">Rapportive</a> tool to become <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/linkedin-sales-navigator/hihakjfhbmlmjdnnhegiciffjplmdhin?hl=en">Sales Navigator extension</a>, which works in Chrome/Gmail. We've all experienced some intermittent problems with the tool.</p>
<p>Here is a way to uncover all that that extension does - even without the need for Chrome or Gmail. This link…</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-207020 align-center" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tool.jpg" alt="" width="289" height="174"/></p>
<p>Recently LinkedIn switched the former <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Rapportive">Rapportive</a> tool to become <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/linkedin-sales-navigator/hihakjfhbmlmjdnnhegiciffjplmdhin?hl=en">Sales Navigator extension</a>, which works in Chrome/Gmail. We've all experienced some intermittent problems with the tool.</p>
<p>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, Firefox, Opera, or any other.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/sales/gmail/profile/viewByEmail/david@braingainrecruiting.com">https://www.linkedin.com/sales/gmail/profile/viewByEmail/david@braingainrecruiting.com</a>.</p>
<p>Replace the email address at the end with an email that you would like to use - and find the person's LinkedIn profile. (This link can also verify that the email address exists.) The link works reliably, and it's fast! You do not need a Sales Navigator subscription; you need to be logged into LinkedIn.</p>
<p>Here is what you would see when using the link above:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmgalley/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-207023" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/david-galley.png" alt="" width="209" height="439"/></a></p>
<p>Very convenient!</p>Should You Trust All Google Tip Sheets? (No)tag:recruitingblogs.com,2018-04-24:502551:BlogPost:20674612018-04-24T11:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-207006 align-center" height="161" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tipsheet.png" width="340"></img></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To the best of my knowledge, these are trustworthy, informative posts, correctly outlining Google's advanced search syntax as of now:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en">Google Help</a> (partial list; Google's Help no longer lists all of the operators)…</span></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-207006 align-center" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tipsheet.png" alt="" width="340" height="161"/></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To the best of my knowledge, these are trustworthy, informative posts, correctly outlining Google's advanced search syntax as of now:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en">Google Help</a> (partial list; Google's Help no longer lists all of the operators)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/assets/misc/AdvancedPowerSearchingQuickReference.pdf">Advanced Power Searching Skills Quick Reference</a> (slightly outdated; by Dan Russel of Google)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ydVaJJeL1EYbWtlfj9TPfBTE5IBADkQfZrQaBZxqXGs/edit">Google’s Advanced Search Operators</a> (by Dan Russel, updated January 2018)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.rba.co.uk/search/SelectedGoogleCommands.pdf">Selected Google Commands</a> (by Karen Blakeman, updated January 2018)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.socialmediasearch.co.uk/2016/09/boolean-search-cheat-sheet/">Boolean Search Tip Sheet from Candidate.ID</a></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I recommend looking through these posts to learn about all the operators Google offers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And here is a <i>warning:</i> many other online tip sheets and example searches have outdated or wrong info.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here's an article, worth reading, from Karen Blakeman: <a href="http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2016/01/15/guardians-top-search-tips-for-google-not-quite-tiptop/">GUARDIAN’S TOP SEARCH TIPS FOR GOOGLE NOT QUITE TIPTOP,</a> It discusses this <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/15/how-to-use-search-like-a-pro-10-tips-and-tricks-for-google-and-beyond">post</a> from the Guardian.com and its not quite tip-top content.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I can name others who have posted tips that, unfortunately, don't match the reality. Here is an example - <a href="https://resources.workable.com/find-candidates-keywords-boolean-search-strings">How to find candidates by keyword (skills and experience)</a> - from Workable - which has multiple mistakes. For example, it lists AND as an operator (it's not); states that the Asterisk * makes Google search for variations of a word (it doesn't); says that parentheses () group words, while they don't make any difference in Google. Other tip sheets from Workable have mistakes as well. I could name a dozen more other sites with incorrect information (ask me if you are curious).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some typical mistakes in the questionable posts include the plus +, which is no longer an operator; using AND and the parentheses; using the asterisk as part of a word; listing the operator NEAR (it doesn't work on Google); listing the operator link: that no longer works; and suggesting to search for email addresses by using the symbol @.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Conclusion:</em> don't blindly trust various "Google Boolean" posts - read them with a grain of salt. Compare what those posts say with the correct sources that I listed at the beginning of this post, to see what's right and what is a mistake. It wouldn't hurt to try example searches if you are unclear how particular search syntax works.</span></p>Three Research Tips for Recruiting Agenciestag:recruitingblogs.com,2018-04-16:502551:BlogPost:20668352018-04-16T14:44:58.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-206977" height="226" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/research-keyboard.jpeg" width="421"></img></p>
<p>If you work at a recruiting agency, the following Boolean Strings would be useful for generating new business.</p>
<p><strong>1) Find people who have recently started new jobs:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com/in+OR+site:linkedin.com/pub+-pub.dir+%22present+(1+month)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com…</a></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206977" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/research-keyboard.jpeg" alt="" width="421" height="226"/></p>
<p>If you work at a recruiting agency, the following Boolean Strings would be useful for generating new business.</p>
<p><strong>1) Find people who have recently started new jobs:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com/in+OR+site:linkedin.com/pub+-pub.dir+%22present+(1+month)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com</a><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com/in+OR+site:linkedin.com/pub+-pub.dir+%22present+(1+month)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">/in OR</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com/in+OR+site:linkedin.com/pub+-pub.dir+%22present+(1+month)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com</a><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com/in+OR+site:linkedin.com/pub+-pub.dir+%22present+(1+month)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">/pub -</a><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com/in+OR+site:linkedin.com/pub+-pub.dir+%22present+(1+month)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">pub.dir</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com/in+OR+site:linkedin.com/pub+-pub.dir+%22present+(1+month)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"present (1 month)"</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fin+OR+site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fpub+-pub.dir+%22present+(2+months)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir "present (2 months)"</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fin+OR+site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fpub+-pub.dir+%22present+(3+months)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir "present (3 months)"</a></p>
<p>How can this help?</p>
<p>a) You might be able to work on back-filling the positions they have left;</p>
<p>b) For corporate recruiting people or hiring managers who just started new positions - they might be open to working with agencies, including new ones.</p>
<p>The following four strings can help to research companies, identify hiring managers, and shed some light on the reporting structure.</p>
<p><strong>2) Identify managers:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fin+OR+site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fpub+-pub.dir+%2210+OR+20+direct+reports%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir "10 OR 20 direct reports"</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fin+OR+site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fpub+-pub.dir+%22managing+10+OR+20+People%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir "managing 10 OR 20 People"</a></p>
<p><strong>3) Investigate the reporting structure:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fin+OR+site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fpub+-pub.dir+%E2%80%9Creported+to+*+at+*%E2%80%9D&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir “reported to * at *”</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fin+OR+site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fpub+-pub.dir+%E2%80%9Creported+to+me%E2%80%9D&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir “reported to me”</a></p>
<p>Of course, we can add industry-specific keywords to the above searches, to get the results relevant to our business.</p>
<p></p>Sourcing on AngelListtag:recruitingblogs.com,2018-03-30:502551:BlogPost:20651822018-03-30T12:12:26.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206947" height="194" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/angellist.png" width="259"></img> AngelList has recently introduced a "sourcing" function. To source on AngelList, you need to define your company and post a job. Then, press the menu item "Recruit" to launch the Sourcing function:</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206942" height="64" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/recruit-angel.png" width="519"></img></p>
<p>The free search filters AngelList offers for Sourcing include keywords, role, location, looking for full/part-time, work authorization, years of experience, and skills. Many members have their resumes and social profile URLs attached to their…</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206947" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/angellist.png" alt="" width="259" height="194"/>AngelList has recently introduced a "sourcing" function. To source on AngelList, you need to define your company and post a job. Then, press the menu item "Recruit" to launch the Sourcing function:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206942" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/recruit-angel.png" alt="" width="519" height="64"/></p>
<p>The free search filters AngelList offers for Sourcing include keywords, role, location, looking for full/part-time, work authorization, years of experience, and skills. Many members have their resumes and social profile URLs attached to their profiles.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206943" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/source-angel.png" alt="" width="661" height="377"/></p>
<p>Additionally, AngelList would search for candidates based on your job description:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206945" src="https://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/match-angel.png" alt="" width="541" height="408"/></p>
<p>It's worth using for sourcing, check out the new functions!</p>
<p></p>Easy Sourcing with NO Booleantag:recruitingblogs.com,2018-01-29:502551:BlogPost:20571212018-01-29T06:00:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1557628898?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1557628898?profile=original" width="516"></img></a></p>
<p>Lots has been said about using the natural language to search for potential candidates. Examples would be <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+am+a+Software+Engineer+at+Microsoft%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=1">"I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft"</a> or …</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1557628898?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1557628898?profile=original" width="516" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p>Lots has been said about using the natural language to search for potential candidates. Examples would be <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+am+a+Software+Engineer+at+Microsoft%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=1">"I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft"</a> or <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22earned+her+MBA+from+Wharton%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=1">"earned her MBA from Wharton"</a>. It's a fruitful technique.</p>
<p>Here is a different twist on searching in English. Suppose we wanted to find LinkedIn profiles on Google, but doing so without the operator <em>site:</em> or any other operators. It turns out, it is quite possible. All we need to do is to identify a phrase (or several phrases) that:</p>
<ol>
<li>Appear on every profile</li>
<li>Don't appear on other pages, that are not profiles.</li>
</ol>
<p>Here is an example search, using a phrase present on LinkedIn public profiles (those that are in English, of course) :"500 million other professionals".</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=linkedin+%22500+million+other+professionals%22+%22head+of+localization%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">linkedin "500 million other professionals" "head of localization"</a></p>
<p>Even if we drop the word <em>linkedin</em> from search, the results will be pretty much all LinkedIn profiles:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22500+million+other+professionals%22+%22head+of+localization%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"500 million other professionals" "head of localization":</a></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206747" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/phrase.png" alt="" width="420" height="413"/></p>
<p>We can use alternative phrases to single out LinkedIn profiles, for example: "full profile it's free". Here is a search:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22full+profile+it%27s+free%22+registered+nurse+ICU&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"full profile it's free" registered nurse ICU</a></p>
<p>For Twitter, we can search for the common element ""tweets & replies":</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22tweets+%26+replies%22+biotech+conference&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"tweets & replies" biotech conference.</a></p>
<p>For Meetup and Github, "member since" is a good token to use.</p>
<p>Who can suggest other examples?</p>Association X-Ray 9-Step "Plan of Attack"tag:recruitingblogs.com,2018-01-19:502551:BlogPost:20560922018-01-19T17:07:35.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206734" height="176" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/association.png" width="286"></img></p>
<p>Association sites are an excellent source of professional and contact information. Are you familiar with associations in your industry? Finding them is as easy as Googling for <em><industry name> <location name> </em><i>association.</i></p>
<p>How would you research an unfamiliar association site? When I research an association site, I am interested in pages with lists of members and in contact information (that will let me look up additional…</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206734" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/association.png" alt="" width="286" height="176"/></p>
<p>Association sites are an excellent source of professional and contact information. Are you familiar with associations in your industry? Finding them is as easy as Googling for <em><industry name> <location name> </em><i>association.</i></p>
<p>How would you research an unfamiliar association site? When I research an association site, I am interested in pages with lists of members and in contact information (that will let me look up additional background).</p>
<p>Here are nine simple Google search templates I use when researching an association site:</p>
<ol>
<li>site:association.org “gmail.com”</li>
<li>site:association.org “gmail.com” “yahoo.com”</li>
<li>site:association.org <some company email extensions></li>
<li>site:association.org filetype:xlsx</li>
<li>site:association.org member directory</li>
<li>site:association.org search for members</li>
<li>site:association.org roster</li>
<li>site:association.org attendee list</li>
<li>site:association.org Bob Mary Lisa (or other names)</li>
</ol>
<p>Depending on the association, these strings can unveil some treasures.</p>
<p>You can pick a few Association sites using the Custom Search Engine "Diversity Associations", <strong><a href="http://bit.ly/DiversityAssociationsCSE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://bit.ly/DiversityAssociationsCSE. Then,</a></strong> try the nine templates above, and see what you would find!</p>
<p></p>Fascinating: Custom Headline Searchtag:recruitingblogs.com,2017-11-27:502551:BlogPost:20494892017-11-27T01:01:35.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206559" height="198" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/custom.png" width="464"></img></p>
<p>I must admit that until I started using the search technique that I am about to describe, I did not realize that a significant number of LinkedIn members customize their Headlines. I had expected most members to stay with the default Headline, which is <em><Job Title> at <Company></em>. Not true. It won't be easy to estimate the percentage of customized Headlines, but they are quite common.<br></br>What members put in Headlines often falls into one of these…</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206559" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/custom.png" alt="" width="464" height="198"/></p>
<p>I must admit that until I started using the search technique that I am about to describe, I did not realize that a significant number of LinkedIn members customize their Headlines. I had expected most members to stay with the default Headline, which is <em><Job Title> at <Company></em>. Not true. It won't be easy to estimate the percentage of customized Headlines, but they are quite common.<br/>What members put in Headlines often falls into one of these categories:<br/>- "I am hiring" <...><br/>- "I am open to opportunities" <...><br/>- <identifying the person's <em>desired</em> - rather than actual - role><br/>- <identifying the person's skills - rather than a job title></p>
<p>Clearly, it would be to our advantage if we could search for keywords in Headlines <em>only</em>. We would be finding additional leads via the Headline search. However, LinkedIn does not provide this type of search to any of its account holders - LinkedIn Recruiter included. Perhaps, they haven't thought of that.</p>
<p>X-Raying for profiles on Google may be an approximation of this capability since Google will give higher search results ranking to profiles where keywords appear in Headlines. Still, as we all know, X-Raying is way imprecise.</p>
<p>Here is where a Google Custom Search Engine and some special operators can shine. It turns out that we can search for keywords <em>precisely</em> in a LinkedIn profile Headline <em>any time we use a Custom Search Engine</em>. To achieve that:</p>
<p>1) Create or find an "X-Ray" CSE. Here is one I have just created: <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:wjz_hn37zwa">LinkedIn Smart X-Ray</a>.<br/>2) Use special Boolean operators, unavailable in google.com, narrowing the search to Headlines only.</p>
<p>Here are example searches that demonstrate the "search in headlines only"operator format.</p>
<ol>
<li>"Open to new opportunities" - <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:wjz_hn37zwa&q=more:p:person-role:open*to*new%20open%20to%20new">more:p:person-role:open*to*new open to new</a></li>
<li>"I am hiring" - <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:wjz_hn37zwa&q=more:p:person-role:i*am*hiring%20am%20hiring">more:p:person-role:i*am*hiring am hiring</a></li>
<li>Lists a Gmail address - <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:wjz_hn37zwa&q=more:p:person-role:gmail%20%22gmail.com%22">more:p:person-role:gmail "gmail.com"</a></li>
<li>Self-identified top skills example (lists the skills, not a job title) - <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:wjz_hn37zwa&q=more:p:person-role:django*python%20django%20python">more:p:person-role:django*python django python</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Now, you can try your own searches - just use the search engine and follow the format.</p>
<p>Isn't that cool?</p>Programming Languages and IT Sourcing Pitfallstag:recruitingblogs.com,2017-10-18:502551:BlogPost:20441342017-10-18T20:38:13.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-206463" height="342" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/github-languages.png" width="440"></img></p>
<p>These are <a href="https://octoverse.github.com/">the top fifteen programming languages</a> on Github, the top site where engineers collaborate on creating software. Scroll down on the <a href="https://github.com/search/advanced">advanced search dialog </a>and you will see the lo-o-o-o-ong choice of the languages, starting with the 24 most popular, then, listing "everything else":</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206464" height="458" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/github-popular.png" width="390"></img></p>
<p>Github also offers to search for languages using the…</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206463" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/github-languages.png" alt="" width="440" height="342"/></p>
<p>These are <a href="https://octoverse.github.com/">the top fifteen programming languages</a> on Github, the top site where engineers collaborate on creating software. Scroll down on the <a href="https://github.com/search/advanced">advanced search dialog </a>and you will see the lo-o-o-o-ong choice of the languages, starting with the 24 most popular, then, listing "everything else":</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206464" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/github-popular.png" alt="" width="390" height="458"/></p>
<p>Github also offers to search for languages using the <em>language:</em> operator instead of the menus. You can type <em>language:python</em> in the Github search box. Some languages that you may have never heard of, exist on Github. For example, Github has a sizeable population writing in a language called <em>Julia</em>:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-206465" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/github-julia.png" alt="" width="462" height="340"/></p>
<p>And here is where I want to warn you.</p>
<p><strong>Pitfall #1</strong></p>
<p>It seems that we can search for any language you like. But in reality, <strong>we can only search for standard languages on</strong> <strong>Github</strong><b>.</b> To clarify, in this case, "standard" means that the language has to be in the drop-down menu in the <a href="https://github.com/search/advanced">advanced search dialog.</a> You can search, for example, for language:HTML5<em> </em>- and you will see no results because HTML5 is not a standard language name. No results may puzzle you. But a worse mistake is to search for a non-standard language along with a location. It such a case, Github will ignore your <em>language:</em> operator - and your results will <em>not</em> match what you want. Example: compare<a href="https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3AHTML+location%3A%22new+york%22&type="> language:HTML location:"new york"</a> and <a href="https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3AHTML5+location%3A%22new+york%22&type=">language:HTML5 location:"new york" - </a>the latter search ignores the language: operator and just gives us everyone in "New York".</p>
<p>Understandably, many of us make this mistake until we look closer. Because of this behavior, it may seem that we can search for a combination of languages, but...</p>
<p><strong>Pitfall #2</strong></p>
<p>Github "ORs" the languages we enter into the search box, i.e. it will look for everyone who writes in one language or another; here is <a href="https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3AHTML+language%3AObjective-C+language%3Apython+location%3A%22new+york%22&type=">an example</a>. <strong>AND is not supported on Github</strong>. There is no way to search for members who write in two or more languages. You can do so in <a href="https://sociallist.io/agents">Social List, </a>but not on Github.</p>
<p>This <a href="https://www.lever.co/blog/recruiting-developers-on-github-a-step-by-step-guide">blog post</a> about "Recruiting Developers on GitHub" has some good advice but it mistakenly assumes that we can search for language:"CSS AND HTML". No, we can't. It's an honest mistake, and is hard to catch because many results show up, but the results are not what you think!</p>
<p>As <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmgalley/" target="_blank">David Galley</a> says, "In Sourcing, question everything."</p>
<p> </p>Hacking the Lack of Features in Recruitertag:recruitingblogs.com,2017-09-25:502551:BlogPost:20416662017-09-25T15:53:03.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><strong>Do you use LinkedIn Recruiter?</strong> Read on.</p>
<p>Given the UI design for advanced people search dialog in LinkedIn Recruiter (that I would call user-unfriendly), there couldn't possibly be a clean resolution for the vague "companies or boolean" field:<img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-206342" height="162" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/companyorbool.png" width="331"></img></p>
<p>Indeed, if there is one word entered, which is a company name (like <em>Apple</em>), will it be looking for employees of that particular company (<em>Apple</em>) or for people from all the companies with this…</p>
<p><strong>Do you use LinkedIn Recruiter?</strong> Read on.</p>
<p>Given the UI design for advanced people search dialog in LinkedIn Recruiter (that I would call user-unfriendly), there couldn't possibly be a clean resolution for the vague "companies or boolean" field:<img class="aligncenter wp-image-206342" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/companyorbool.png" alt="" width="331" height="162"/></p>
<p>Indeed, if there is one word entered, which is a company name (like <em>Apple</em>), will it be looking for employees of that particular company (<em>Apple</em>) or for people from all the companies with this word (<em>"apple"</em>) in the company names? It is unclear from the UI. There is a big difference in the two searches, and we may want to do either. In fact, a basic FREE account conveniently has both capabilities - we can either search for a keyword in the company name or select companies:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206343" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/free.png" alt="" width="292" height="471"/></p>
<p>Returning to Recruiter - if you select a company from the offered list in the "company or boolean" field, it will NOT search for the keyword, but will just for that company. Thus, it only duplicates the exact same functionality found in another corner of the same vast people search dialog.</p>
<p>However, when I search for a company name, I often want to include that same company, registered as a different entity on LinkedIn (perhaps due to a different location or division). Here is a (random) example of several entries in LinkedIn's company list that seem likely to be part of the same company:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206344" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/same.png" alt="" width="273" height="243"/></p>
<p>If I go with the company choices, I would need to select each entry separately. For example, if I select the first entry, "Netrix", I get only two results for members whose company is "exactly" <em>Netrix</em>.</p>
<p>Here is a hack that brings back this useful feature, company keyword search, to Recruiter. Use a Boolean string that looks like this. It is a choice between your keyword and something that never happens. Now we get many more results than two:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206348" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/bykeyword.png" alt="" width="320" height="366"/></p>
<p>Problem solved!</p>
<ul>
<li>Here is a sourcing challenge for my readers who also have LIR (Recruiter). Suppose we are searching by one keyword in the "company or boolean" field, and that word is not, by itself, a company name. How will the search be interpreted?</li>
</ul>
<p>Having played with the challenge some more, I have found the shortest string that would look for the keyword, not the company. Just add a space after the word, and get many more results! See below. (The troubling thing is, the same bizarre syntax rules apply to the Job Title). </p>
<p>Watch for the next post on my blog <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/" target="_blank">booleanstrings.com</a></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206353 align-full" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ibm.png" alt="" width="701" height="394"/></p>If You Are Looking for Potential Candidates In Other Countries...tag:recruitingblogs.com,2017-07-07:502551:BlogPost:20295912017-07-07T14:34:32.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-206112" height="380" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/international.jpg" width="507"></img></p>
<p>How can we search for pages local to a particular country?</p>
<p>For starters, there are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain">country code top-level domains</a>. To find pages that belong to a country-level domain, we can simply use X-Ray:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aza">site:za </a></p>
<p>But there are many <a href="http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db">other domains,</a> that <em>don't</em> point to a location.…</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206112" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/international.jpg" alt="" width="507" height="380"/></p>
<p>How can we search for pages local to a particular country?</p>
<p>For starters, there are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain">country code top-level domains</a>. To find pages that belong to a country-level domain, we can simply use X-Ray:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aza">site:za </a></p>
<p>But there are many <a href="http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db">other domains,</a> that <em>don't</em> point to a location. When figuring out the region for a page on a generic domain, such as <em>.com</em> or <em>.org,</em> Google uses the pages' IP address (<a href="https://www.melissadata.com/lookups/iplocation.asp">revealing the location</a>). It may use a few other signals, such as location information within the page HTML code and locations of other pages pointing to this one.</p>
<p>Google's <a href="https://www.google.com/advanced_search">Advanced Search</a> has a setting, allowing to search for pages, which Google identified as belonging to a region:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-206110" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/region.png" alt="" width="663" height="234"/></p>
<p> </p>
<p>If we set a region in the advanced dialog, we will not see it reflected in the search string. Instead, the setting generates an addition to the search URL that looks like this:</p>
<p><em>&cr=countryNZ.</em></p>
<p>Here is an example search narrowed to a region:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=chemical+engineer&cr=countryNZ">chemical engineer</a></p>
<p>We can exclude country-specific domains and examine what Google brings in as local to a country, based on factors other than the country-specific domain:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=chemical+engineer%20-site:nz&cr=countryNZ">chemical engineer -site:nz </a></p>
<p>An interesting - and practical - use case for using the "region" advanced setting is X-Raying LinkedIn. Take a look:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=countryNL&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=linkedin.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=">site:linkedin.com</a> (Netherlands)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=countryJP&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=linkedin.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=">site:linkedin.com</a> (Japan)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=countryBR&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=linkedin.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=">site:linkedin.com</a> (Brazil)</li>
</ul>
<p>Now, here is a question: can you reliably X-Ray LinkedIn for US-based profiles <em>only</em>, using the advanced region setting? I will leave the answer to the reader :)</p>
<p> </p>A Close Look at "Open to New Opportunities"tag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-10-13:502551:BlogPost:19899932016-10-13T23:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/open-candidates-blog-share.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/open-candidates-blog-share.jpg?width=300" width="300"></img></a></p>
<p>Signaling that one is "Open to New Opportunities" without alarming your boss is certainly a good idea for a job seeker. Recently, LinkedIn <a href="https://blog.linkedin.com/2016/10/06/now-you-can-privately-signal-to-recruiters-youre-open-to-new-job">introduced this feature</a>.</p>
<p>If you <em>are</em> a job seeker, there are a couple of things to be aware of…</p>
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/open-candidates-blog-share.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/open-candidates-blog-share.jpg?width=300" width="300" class="align-left"/></a></p>
<p>Signaling that one is "Open to New Opportunities" without alarming your boss is certainly a good idea for a job seeker. Recently, LinkedIn <a href="https://blog.linkedin.com/2016/10/06/now-you-can-privately-signal-to-recruiters-youre-open-to-new-job">introduced this feature</a>.</p>
<p>If you <em>are</em> a job seeker, there are a couple of things to be aware of here.</p>
<p>(1) The signal you send gets only to LinkedIn Recruiter product subscribers. That subscription is quite expensive. For many smaller companies - both potential employers and smaller recruiting agencies (which may be serving large corporations!) - the product costs too much to buy. Just be aware that the signal only goes to some, not all professionals who might want to employ you.</p>
<p>(2) The "exact" employer, i.e. a registered company on LinkedIn, will not see your status. But any company working in a close relationship with your employer, for example, other divisions registered as separate companies and third party recruiters, can still find you as someone looking. Then, people from different companies who are friendly can also ask each other to search. An employer without the subscription can ask someone with a subscription to look. (Etc.) Here's a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1176637/1176637-6190062561648529408">related discussion</a> in our group.</p>
<p>It's progress, though - Recruiters, no matter which subscription they have, have not been able to search for members with paid "Job Seeker" accounts. So for people who are openly looking, I'd advise raising the flag on your account. For those who want to keep it a secret, I am not sure.</p>
<p>If you are curious how widely members have used the "Open to New Opportunities" signal, here are some statistics, measured this morning using LinkedIn Recruiter.</p>
<p>The global stats are the following - please note that (for a variety of reasons) the numbers are approximate:</p>
<p></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-205440 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lir-all.jpg" alt="lir-all" width="434" height="463"/></p>
<p>Members who have set the status:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-205441 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lir-open.jpg" alt="lir-open" width="389" height="407"/></p>
<p>The "Open" members amount to 0.25% of all the membership, as of now.</p>
<p>It's the early days, so perhaps the stats show more of the membership using this function vs. those looking to leave. However, the stats narrowed down to the hiring company's industry, and location can be examined for employers who are potentially in trouble. Those would be the companies with the percentage of employees looking to leave, out of employees with LinkedIn profiles, being high compared to the average. In fact, I would say it is a way to investigate companies that might be good to research when sourcing for talent. (Right?)</p>Search Like a Master in Three Simple Steps #NoBooleantag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-08-31:502551:BlogPost:19834712016-08-31T12:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/rocketscience.png" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/rocketscience.png?width=230" width="230"></img></a></p>
<p><span>Want to search the Web like a Master? Here is a fast way to get there.</span></p>
<p>Searching the Web is not Rocket Science. Everyone can learn to search even for complex information, such as professional bios, quite efficiently, following the three steps that I am about to describe. And the good news is, you do not necessarily have to use advanced search operators to…</p>
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<p><span>Want to search the Web like a Master? Here is a fast way to get there.</span></p>
<p>Searching the Web is not Rocket Science. Everyone can learn to search even for complex information, such as professional bios, quite efficiently, following the three steps that I am about to describe. And the good news is, you do not necessarily have to use advanced search operators to find excellent results.</p>
<p>Steps 1 and 2 are required to <em>prepare</em> to search, while Step 3 is actual searching.</p>
<p><span>Step 1. </span>Identify <em>where</em> you want to search.</p>
<p>The web is so large – just Googling some keywords, that you would like to see on target profiles, is a long shot! The first step is to narrow down the set of pages where you would like to find the results. A traditional technique for this step is only on a given site. Searching only within a given site, using a search engine, is called “X-Raying.”</p>
<p>(Whether you are or are not familiar with the operator <em>site:</em>, just read on. You won’t necessarily need to learn about search operators.)</p>
<p>To find a site that you might want to X-Ray, you can start with a profile you have already found – perhaps linked from another profile or shared by a colleague. Or, if you are starting from scratch, run a simple Google query describing a site. For example, Google for [association of accountants in Canada] or [members oil gas Louisiana].</p>
<p><span>Step 2.</span> Create a <em>search template </em>to search just for the desired pages on the site.</p>
<p>For that, it helps to take a look at a few profiles on a site (that’s if those are your desired pages) and see what these pages look like; then, use that to start constructing a search. Let’s take a look at an example.</p>
<p>Here is a sample profile: <a href="http://www.mosaichub.com/member/p/jim-ervin">http://www.mosaichub.com/member/p/jim-ervin</a>.</p>
<p>For people who are familiar with the “formal” X-Raying (i.e. using the operator <em>site:) </em>– from looking at the profile, you will see how to proceed to narrow the search down to this type of pages – at least in this example. You can take advantage of the URL structure:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amosaichub.com%2Fmember%2Fp&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:mosaichub.com/member/p</a></p>
<p>For those who don’t want to use any operators: use the domain and add a phrase or keywords that <em>any</em> profile on the site would have. Example:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22mosaichub.com%22+%22member+profile%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">“mosaichub.com” “member profile.”</a></p>
<p>Either of the two sample strings above can serve as a search template.</p>
<p>Depending on the site you are looking to explore, you may find that the site’s profiles have a phrase like “member since”, “connect with”, or<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22full+profile+it%27s+free%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">“full profile it’s free”</a> (etc.) – those would be the phrases to use in the template.</p>
<p><span>Step 3.</span> Now you are ready to <em>search</em>.</p>
<p>Add keywords, such as job titles, locations, and skills.</p>
<p>Examples (using the two templates we had created earlier):</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amosaichub.com%2Fmember%2Fp+%22business+development+director%22+London&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">site:mosaichub.com/member/p “business development director” London</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22mosaichub.com%22+%22member+profile%22+%22business+development+director%22+London&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">“mosaichub.com” “member profile” “business development director” London</a></li>
</ul>
<p>You can repeat the search varying the keywords and phrases, to uncover the pages that you want to find. Here’s a diagram with several more examples of the three-step search construction (no Boolean operators are involved!):</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-205283 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/searching.jpg" alt="searching" width="589" height="238"/></p>
<p>Originally published on <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/" target="_blank">BooleanStrings.com</a></p>10 Little-Known Strings to Mine Member and Attendee Liststag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-07-24:502551:BlogPost:19782472016-07-24T17:32:50.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="member-list" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-205205 align-center" height="333" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/member-list.jpg" width="500"></img></p>
<p>Many Sourcers know how to locate lists of professionals in Excel format by using the operator <em>filetype:</em> and the typical column headings, such as<em> name, title, company,</em> and <em>email</em>. Indeed, by adding keywords to a search like <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Axls+name+title+company+email&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">filetype:xls name title company email</a> we can find lists of professionals whose background we can…</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-205205 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/member-list.jpg" alt="member-list" width="500" height="333"/></p>
<p>Many Sourcers know how to locate lists of professionals in Excel format by using the operator <em>filetype:</em> and the typical column headings, such as<em> name, title, company,</em> and <em>email</em>. Indeed, by adding keywords to a search like <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Axls+name+title+company+email&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">filetype:xls name title company email</a> we can find lists of professionals whose background we can further investigate to see if they match our requirements.</p>
<p>There, however, lots of other ways to search for lists, that we can come up with, based on creative thinking and common sense combined (which is always a good recipe for successful sourcing!).</p>
<p>It will be up to the reader to figure out why these strings work and how to adjust them to work for your cases - but it shouldn't be hard. Here you go:</p>
<p><strong>Sorted Lists</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22sorted+by+company%22+sales+marketing+director&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"sorted by company" sales marketing director</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22sorted+alphabetically%22+%22minority-owned%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"sorted alphabetically" "minority-owned"</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Updated Lists</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q="last+updated+*+2013.."+waste+management+"contact+list"&num=100&newwindow=1">"last updated * 2013.." waste management "contact list"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22final+attendee+list%22+%22life+insurance%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"final attendee list" "life insurance"</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Email Domains</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22us.pwc.com%22+%22ey.com%22+CPAs&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"us.pwc.com" "ey.com" CPAs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gmail.com%22+%22alumni.stanford.edu%22+applied+physics&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"gmail.com" "alumni.stanford.edu" applied physics</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Personal Names</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22real+estate+attorney%22+bob+dave+deb+jim&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">"real estate attorney" bob dave deb jim</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=abby%20noah%20mike%20%22manufacturing%22%20%22attendees%22"> mike abby noah "manufacturing" "attendees"</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Job Titles and Abbreviations</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=healthcare+VP+%22product+development%22+%22project+management%22+speakers&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">healthcare VP "product development" "project management" speakers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22contact+list%22+LPN+RN&num=100&newwindow=1">intitle:"contact list" LPN RN</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The possibilities are endless!</p>The redesigned LIR (LinkedIn Recruiter) breaks Boolean search syntax - and you need to know howtag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-06-27:502551:BlogPost:19742812016-06-27T21:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/lir2.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/lir2.jpg?width=300" width="300"></img></a></p>
<p>If you use LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) and have upgraded to the long-awaited new User Interface and Search - have you noticed that previously working searches no longer produce the expected results? The idea behind the redesign was to provide suggestions - for example, for job titles. It's a good idea and should be of help, but...</p>
<p>Let me outline what has happened around the…</p>
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<p>If you use LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) and have upgraded to the long-awaited new User Interface and Search - have you noticed that previously working searches no longer produce the expected results? The idea behind the redesign was to provide suggestions - for example, for job titles. It's a good idea and should be of help, but...</p>
<p>Let me outline what has happened around the switch to the new UI.</p>
<p>LinkedIn has changed the search syntax - in LinkedIn Recruiter <em>only.</em> To illustrate, how, let's take a look at a search from a personal account (any, premium or not):</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-205142 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/li1.jpg" alt="linkedin search - 1" width="305" height="225"/></p>
<p></p>
<p>The keywords are combined by default. The AND operator is assumed by default, as we expect it to be, as it works by now in most search systems, including Google, resume databases, and people aggregators. This is how search has worked in LinkedIn and LIR until recently. But no longer.</p>
<p>Here is what it looks like in LIR, when I enter the same search parameters (the window on the left):</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-205143" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/li2.jpg" alt="linkedin" width="728" height="231"/></p>
<p>Why did the same search get fewer results? The reason is, LIR doesn't assume AND any longer. Instead, it surrounds your keywords with the quotation marks by default. (That is, unless you insert a Boolean search operator - AND, OR, or NOT). Otherwise, LIR runs a different search than it did before the redesign. Compare the search in the left and right windows, and you'll see.</p>
<p>To get the results for (just) the keywords combined, now you would need to enter AND (capitalized!) explicitly:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-205144 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/li3.jpg" alt="linkedin" width="322" height="281"/></p>
<p>Bottom line:</p>
<p><strong>AND is no longer optional in LIR; the quotation marks are added by default around keywords - UNLESS you use any Boolean operators (AND, OR, or NOT).</strong></p>
<p>Are you aware of the change? Do you find this confusing? Please comment below.</p>
<p>Here are some of the consequences:</p>
<p>Your saved searches may be broken. Your search history, too, will have entries that may or may not work as before. The link "View the results in recruiter" when you search from a personal account will take you to the same results as in personal - but if you start editing a field and exit without changing, the results will be off.</p>In 2016, Googling Simpler is Bettertag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-06-20:502551:BlogPost:19734582016-06-20T15:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>The content below, backed up by examples, has immediate practical implications.</p>
<p><a href="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/jc/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAfMAAAAJGI4MDM2OGU3LTExMDktNGMwYi1iNGQ3LWIzZWMxZGFhYjNkNA.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/jc/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAfMAAAAJGI4MDM2OGU3LTExMDktNGMwYi1iNGQ3LWIzZWMxZGFhYjNkNA.jpg?width=300" width="300"></img></a></p>
<p>Over the last few years, Google has made algorithm advances in the area of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+semantic+search&num=100&newwindow=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">semantic search</a>. Last Fall Google told us that…</p>
<p>The content below, backed up by examples, has immediate practical implications.</p>
<p><a href="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/jc/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAfMAAAAJGI4MDM2OGU3LTExMDktNGMwYi1iNGQ3LWIzZWMxZGFhYjNkNA.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/jc/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAfMAAAAJGI4MDM2OGU3LTExMDktNGMwYi1iNGQ3LWIzZWMxZGFhYjNkNA.jpg?width=300" width="300" class="align-left"/></a></p>
<p>Over the last few years, Google has made algorithm advances in the area of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+semantic+search&num=100&newwindow=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">semantic search</a>. Last Fall Google told us that their new semantic, machine-learning-based component called <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+RankBrain&num=100&newwindow=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RankBrain</a> is now the 3rd most important factor in ranking. With these shifts,<strong> long and bulky Boolean ("long OR") search templates are getting less useful and provide fewer relevant results, compared to searching in a simple fashion</strong>, and that is what I am going to illustrate in this post.</p>
<p> A traditional “old school” resume search template looks like this:</p>
<p><em>inurl:resume OR inurl:cv OR inurl:vitae OR intitle:resume OR inurl:cv OR inurl:vitae OR inurl:resume -job -jobs -sample -example -apply -submit</em> <add keywords></p>
<p>Let’s add these keywords - <em>"full stack" engineer node.js "san francisco"</em> - and see what we find.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aresume+OR+inurl%3Acv+OR+inurl%3Avitae+OR+intitle%3Aresume+OR+inurl%3Acv+OR+inurl%3Avitae+OR+inurl%3Aresume+-job+-jobs+-sample+-example+-apply+-submit+-%22contact+us%22+%22full+stack%22+engineer+node.js+%22san+francisco%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">inurl:resume OR inurl:cv OR inurl:vitae OR intitle:resume OR inurl:cv OR inurl:vitae OR inurl:resume -job -jobs -sample -example -apply -submit -"contact us" "full stack" engineer node.js "san francisco"</a></p>
<p>This search brings up ~260 results. (They include some non-resumes from irrelevant sites, but it is not a big deal since we can exclude those in the search. We can stop seeing those sites once and forever by <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blocking them</a>.)</p>
<p>Let’s look at the search closer to see whether the string complexity is justified. We’ll start with the OR statement at the beginning of the search, then will look at the exclusions (the words preceded by the minus), and finally will review the usage of advanced operators such as <em>inurl:.</em></p>
<p class="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Long OR Statement - ?</strong></p>
<p>Did we get additional results by including <em>cv</em> and <em>vitae</em> in addition to <em>resume</em>? We would expect that we got <em>these</em> results:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=-inurl%3Aresume+-intitle%3Aresume+inurl%3Acv+OR+inurl%3Avitae+OR+inurl%3Acv+OR+inurl%3Avitae+-job+-jobs+-sample+-example+-apply+-submit+%22full+stack%22+-%E2%80%9Ccontact+us%E2%80%9D+engineer+node.js+%22san+francisco%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">-inurl:resume -intitle:resume inurl:cv OR inurl:vitae OR inurl:cv OR inurl:vitae -job -jobs -sample -example -apply -submit "full stack" –“contact us” engineer node.js "san francisco"</a></p>
<p> The above search does show a few results, and most are relevant:</p>
<p><img class="center" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_400_400/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAcvAAAAJDMwNmNkM2E4LTQxZWEtNDFlZi1hYWVjLTg5OTMwOWMxOTYzMQ.jpg" width="276" height="260"/></p>
<p><em>However,</em> if we go to the original long search (including all of <em>resumes, CVs, </em>and<em>vitaes)</em>, we will notice that several of these “CV” results don’t show up!</p>
<p>If we start carefully comparing long OR searches with a series of searches for each of the terms in the OR statement separately, the latter way, in many cases, provides more results (see also <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2015/11/11/boolean-is-alive-and-well-but-long-boolean-is-dead/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a related blog post</a>). It’s as if Google is telling us:<em>“You are so clever! Are you telling me which words to use as synonyms and on which parts of the pages to look for them? I will then relax and stop working as hard.”</em></p>
<p><em>LESSON #1. Don’t use long OR statements on Google. If you do, you may get fewer results. If you must search for alternative terms, search for each in turn.</em></p>
<p>In fact, I will go as far as to say it’s best not to use OR in Google at all.</p>
<p class="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Exclusions (the NOTs) - ?</strong></p>
<p>Now, let’s take a look at the words we have excluded: <em>-job -jobs -sample -example -apply -submit.</em></p>
<p>I am sorry to say, but we have lost some results with these, seemingly reasonable, exclusions. Some matching resumes include these phrases:</p>
<ul>
<li>“One of the first 10 engineers at this groundbreaking developer-centric <em>job</em>”</li>
<li>“developed… web app for managing your <em>job </em>search with gamified elements.”</li>
<li>“system: it allows for easier management of printing hardware, customers, print <em>jobs</em>, accounting…”</li>
<li>“Published documentation, technical articles and blog entries with <em>sample</em> code.”</li>
<li>“One <em>example</em> would be the use of the SimplePie RSS parser.”</li>
</ul>
<p> <em>Lesson #2. Go easy on exclusions with the NOT (minus) on Google.</em></p>
<p>Running multiple keyword exclusions upfront is restrictive and unnecessary. Besides, a better approach would be to <em>include</em> extra keywords that are likely to appear in resumes but not in job posts. </p>
<p class="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Advanced Operators - <em>intitle:</em> and <em>inurl: </em>- ?</strong></p>
<p>Finally, in our exploration of the “old-school” Boolean, let’s take a look at the use of the advanced operators in the search – <em>intitle:</em> and <em>inurl:.</em> So what was the reason to search for <em>intitle:resume</em> OR <em>intitle:CV OR,</em> etc. back in the day? We were telling Google about <em>resume</em> synonyms. When an operator (such as <em>intitle:</em>) precedes a word<em>, </em>Google will search for the <em>exact</em> word. But when we search for a keyword such as <em>resume </em>with “no operators attached”:</p>
<ol>
<li>Google will <em>automatically</em> include synonyms such as <em>CV</em>;</li>
<li>Google will give high rank to pages with the word <em>resume</em> either in the title or URL.</li>
</ol>
<p class="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Simple Search (yes!)</strong></p>
<p> Now let’s try a simple search with no operators.</p>
<p>Instead of excluding keywords like <em>jobs</em>, let’s add <em>gmail</em> as a keyword that is likely to appear on resumes. (We can additionally search for resumes without <em>gmail</em>later).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=resume+%22full+stack%22+engineer+node.js+%22san+francisco%22+%22gmail%22&num=100&newwindow=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">resume "full stack" engineer node.js "san francisco" "gmail"</a> </p>
<p>These are fine results:</p>
<p><img class="center" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAlUAAAAJDY2MDJhNDVmLTg1NzMtNDY4My05NWE5LWZiMTQ5ZDVkODQ2Mw.jpg" width="467" height="472"/></p>
<p>A simple search requires less effort and provides more relevant results, compared to the “old school” long Boolean.</p>
<p>Notice that with this simple search we also getting results that <em>are </em>resumes that wouldn’t have been found by the original search string. For example, we find this page that doesn’t have the word <em>resume</em> either in the title or URL -<a href="http://benbuckman.net/work/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://benbuckman.net/work/</a>.</p>
<p><em>Lesson #3. Don’t use advanced search operators like </em>intitle:<em> and </em>inurl:,<em> unless you have to, because operators stop Google from interpreting - and you get fewer results.</em><em> Rely on Google’s ability to interpret searches and automatically look for synonyms.</em></p>
<p>Of course, advanced search operators on Google still have plenty of uses. For example, X-Raying remains a great technique. However, for practical Sourcing on Google, we can stop keeping long lists of long strings, run simple, short searches and get better results. That’s good news!</p>
<p></p>
<p>(The post was written for and originally published on SourceCon.com, entitled "Use Less Boolean on Google for Better Productivity")</p>LinkedIn Kills Its CRM Featurestag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-03-01:502551:BlogPost:19505262016-03-01T16:00:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
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<p></p>
<p>Remember, when LinkedIn acquired this company:</p>
<p><img alt="connected" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-204779 align-center" height="68" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/connected.jpg" width="120"></img></p>
<p>... and integrated its functionality into the main product, we got this menu item - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/contacts" target="_blank">Contacts</a>. I became a <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2013/06/11/5102/">fan of it</a> early on. The Contacts became the foundation of…</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1557583827?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="273" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1557583827?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="273" class="align-left"/></a></p>
<p></p>
<p>Remember, when LinkedIn acquired this company:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-204779 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/connected.jpg" alt="connected" width="120" height="68"/></p>
<p>... and integrated its functionality into the main product, we got this menu item - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/contacts" target="_blank">Contacts</a>. I became a <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2013/06/11/5102/">fan of it</a> early on. The Contacts became the foundation of LinkedIn CRM (contact relationship management) features for everyone. The "Contacts" combined the first-level connections, imported address books, and "saved" profiles.</p>
<p>Initially, we could search using many facets and see a nice graphical representation of the Contacts' locations:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-204781 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/connected-search.jpg" alt="contacts-search" width="390" height="243"/></p>
<p>The pretty location graph didn't stay for too long, but we enjoyed the rest of the Contacts' functions for a while.</p>
<p>We could leave notes, visible only to us, on profiles; that helped to communicate with others more efficiently. We could <em>edit</em> the contact information (perhaps imported from an old address book) when it got outdated or when obtaining additional info or websites for the person. Records imported from address books were automatically cross-referenced with existing LinkedIn profiles. (This <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2013/08/14/find-almost-anybodys-email-address-with-linkedin/">popular email-finding technique</a> relied on auto-cross-referencing.)</p>
<p>Those were the days, my friend!</p>
<p>Much of this CRM functionality still exists in <a href="https://business.linkedin.com/me/talent-solutions/recruiter" target="_blank">LinkedIn Recruiter</a>. Most of it, however, is gone from personal LinkedIn accounts (no matter, paid or not). Want to hear the details?</p>
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2016/02/17/saving-contacts-no-more/">We can no longer save contacts</a>. We can edit "notes" and add tags - but <em>only </em>for those profiles that have made it to the Contacts list by February 25, 2016. Of course, most prospects in everyone's business practice haven't been "saved" - and <em>can't be "saved" or tagged</em> any longer;<em> there's no place to add the notes</em> either.</p>
<p>The import functions for other address books, such as Yahoo or MS Outlook are <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/contacts/manage_sources/" target="_blank">still there</a>, but LinkedIn no longer tells us which imported contacts have profiles on LinkedIn. The Contact records still look like this for previously imported contacts (hi, Jim!), showing the sources for the contact.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-204787" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/connected-xref.jpg" alt="connected-xref" width="716" height="112"/></p>
<p>But if you try to import an address book today from Yahoo or MS Outlook, you will just see a list of email addresses with no other information.</p>
<p>Most of the mentioned feature removals happened in the Contacts. To add to this, the recent LinkedIn <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2015/09/01/new-messaging-experience-comes-to-linkedin-finally/" target="_blank">messaging redesign</a> has also affected smooth communication. For example, we no longer have the checkbox to not let multiple recipients see each other. This is what it used to be like:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-204785 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/LinkedIn_Messaging_-_Unchecked_-_Instructions.png" alt="LinkedIn_Messaging" width="161" height="154"/></p>
<p>That checkbox is gone - now messages sent to several people often proceed to a "spam" loop, where each person is asking to remove them from the conversation and each such message is delivered, again, to all.</p>
<p>Maybe LinkedIn has removed the existing CRM functions while preparing some new and brilliant CRM functionality for the members? Who knows?</p>
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<p></p>Need to Find an Email Address? You Got New Optionstag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-02-26:502551:BlogPost:19500682016-02-26T16:00:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/email-1.jpg" rel="noopener"><img class="align-left" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/email-1.jpg?width=313" width="313"></img></a></p>
<p>For starters, <a href="http://bit.ly/PROFET" rel="noopener">Prophet</a> is not new any longer but has gained much-deserved popularity since it was introduced and is absolutely worth using.</p>
<p>In the past few months, I’ve noticed a myriad of other tools, all of which will try to find an email address, starting from a social profile or, in some cases, from the persons’ and…</p>
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/email-1.jpg" rel="noopener"><img src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/email-1.jpg?width=313" width="313" class="align-left"/></a></p>
<p>For starters, <a href="http://bit.ly/PROFET" rel="noopener">Prophet</a> is not new any longer but has gained much-deserved popularity since it was introduced and is absolutely worth using.</p>
<p>In the past few months, I’ve noticed a myriad of other tools, all of which will try to find an email address, starting from a social profile or, in some cases, from the persons’ and company names. It’s up to everyone to test the tools – and I’d recommend using more than one in tough cases.</p>
<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/email-hunter/hgmhmanijnjhaffoampdlllchpolkdnj" rel="noopener">Email Hunter</a> offered by <a href="https://emailhunter.co/" rel="noopener">https://emailhunter.co</a> collects visible professional email addresses everywhere – and is therefore in an excellent position to try and guess an address; it will tell us about the level of confidence in guessing. (Note, it’s a different tool from another Chrome Extension also called “email hunter” that collects addresses on the current page.) I have heard good things about it.</p>
<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/charlie-app/jighbpjgmpjlbnffnkojgfimidfghpfe/" rel="noopener">Charlie</a> – I have not tried it long enough to share the email quality experience, but it also provides “social summaries” on profiles. Finding emails is its new feature.</p>
<p>The above two extensions nicely give each other screen space, and it looks like this when viewing a LinkedIn profile (Hmm… I wonder what LinkedIn thinks about that.)</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-204762 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/toolsemail.jpg" alt="tools-email" width="339" height="61"/></p>
<p>More tools:</p>
<p><a href="http://findthatlead.com/" rel="noopener">FindThatLead</a>, a.k.a. FTL is a tool made by a developers team in Spain. They launched their <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ftl/lkpekgkhmldknbcgjicjkomphkhhdkjj" rel="noopener">Chrome extension</a> some time ago and have now added a “dashboard.” They give us 10 searches for free.</p>
<p><a href="https://leadiq.io/referrals/5fec19be" rel="noopener">LeadIQ</a> is a nicely designed tool, oriented toward salespeople, but very much applicable to sourcing and recruiting. It not only looks for emails but also saves tables with data from the viewed profiles in Google Docs. Check it out (25 free emails).</p>
<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/datanyze-insider/mlholfadgbpidekmhdibonbjhdmpmafd" rel="noopener">Datanyze Insider</a> – similar to LeadIQ (with 10 free emails) it and also collects the data in a spreadsheet; this could be quite convenient for sourcing for those who don’t like working with data scrapers.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.contextscout.com/" rel="noopener">ContextScout</a> – mentioning it here since I have seen some online discussions about it. However, I have not been impressed by their UI or by the quality of information in my tests – at least not so far. Additionally, it only provides a limited-time trial.</p>
<p>Well, there are others worth mentioning, but I think I’ll stop here for now. (An easy way to find more similar tools is to Google a few tool names.)</p>Five Strings to Source for IT Professionalstag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-02-17:502551:BlogPost:19487852016-02-17T16:00:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/InformationTechnology.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/InformationTechnology.jpg?width=300" width="300"></img></a></p>
<p>As <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2016/02/08/tools-that-no-longer-work/">some sourcing tools are going away</a>, I am becoming more interested (almost addicted!) to creating and using Custom Search Engines for sourcing. Recruiters have not yet utilized <a href="https://cse.google.com">this resource</a> to its full strength - especially, semantic search features,…</p>
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/InformationTechnology.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/InformationTechnology.jpg?width=300" width="300" class="align-left"/></a></p>
<p>As <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2016/02/08/tools-that-no-longer-work/">some sourcing tools are going away</a>, I am becoming more interested (almost addicted!) to creating and using Custom Search Engines for sourcing. Recruiters have not yet utilized <a href="https://cse.google.com">this resource</a> to its full strength - especially, semantic search features, unavailable on Google.com "proper".</p>
<p>I have already shared Search Engines <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2016/02/05/looking-for-accountants-try-this-search-engine/">for Accountants</a> and <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2016/02/03/searching-for-healthcare-practitioners-try-this-search-engine/">Physicians</a>.</p>
<p>Here are five Search Engines, each with an example search string, to help to source for Information Technology professionals.</p>
<p>1. Search in Software Code - <a href="http://bit.ly/TheCodeCSE"><strong>http://bit.ly/TheCodeCSE</strong></a></p>
<p>Example - find Developers who have worked with Linux Kernel: <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:4pw19akdthg&q=linux%20kernel%20credits%20OR%20contributors%20OR%20authors">linux kernel credits OR contributors OR authors</a></p>
<p>2. Search for creatives on Behance - <strong><a href="http://bit.ly/BehanceResumes">http://bit.ly/BehanceResumes</a></strong></p>
<p>Example - <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:qtcezguopra&q=UX%20Designer%20Austin&filter=0">UX Designers in Austin</a></p>
<p>3. Search for resumes on Slideshare - <strong><a href="http://bit.ly/SlideshareResumesCSE">http://bit.ly/SlideshareResumesCSE</a></strong></p>
<p>Example - <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:vkdxe7pcnzg&q=quality%20assurance%20automation%20new%20york&filter=0">quality assurance automation new york</a></p>
<p>4. Search for Meetup members - <strong><a href="http://bit.ly/MeetupPersonsCSE">http://bit.ly/MeetupPersonsCSE</a></strong></p>
<p>Example - <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:2qdc5pavu8q&q=SAS%20Programmer%20toronto">SAS Programmer Toronto</a></p>
<p>5. Search for profiles on Google-Plus - <strong><a href="http://bit.ly/GooglePlusPersonsCSE">http://bit.ly/GooglePlusPersonsCSE</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009462381166450434430:jsj6rh9fvi0&q=cloud%20engineering%20%22lives%20in%20seattle%22%20%22works%20OR%20worked%20at%20amazon%22">cloud engineering "lives in Seattle" "works OR worked at Amazon"</a></p>
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<p>Enjoy! :)</p>Tools That No Longer Worktag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-02-10:502551:BlogPost:19478932016-02-10T14:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img alt="old-tools" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-204723 align-center" height="239" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/old-tools.jpg" width="236"></img></p>
<p>Are we experiencing a general tools decline? What are the most innovative tool concepts since <em>people aggregators</em> made their appearance a few years ago?</p>
<p>Here are some tools that have reduced functionality or are gone altogether:</p>
<ul>
<li>The latest version of MS Outlook no longer supports the Social Connector. The last Outlook version that still supports ir, the one from Office 2013, has stopped supporting LinkedIn.</li>
<li>Topsy, the search engine that…</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-204723 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/old-tools.jpg" alt="old-tools" width="236" height="239"/></p>
<p>Are we experiencing a general tools decline? What are the most innovative tool concepts since <em>people aggregators</em> made their appearance a few years ago?</p>
<p>Here are some tools that have reduced functionality or are gone altogether:</p>
<ul>
<li>The latest version of MS Outlook no longer supports the Social Connector. The last Outlook version that still supports ir, the one from Office 2013, has stopped supporting LinkedIn.</li>
<li>Topsy, the search engine that indexed all tweets "from the beginning of time" and searched better than Twitter itself, was shut down in December 2015, some time after Apple had acquired it.</li>
<li>Broadlook's desktop-based Contact Capture, well-debugged during its relatively long lifetime, is no longer supported or available for download.</li>
<li>Lippl, an extension to uncover hidden information on LinkedIn profiles, has been discontinued.</li>
<li>Connect6 PeopleDiscovery has not been updated since 2014.</li>
<li>360social, that was an extension for Chrome with a promise to become a people aggregator, stopped working for a long time; it seems, it may come back, but we have yet to see that.</li>
<li>Connectifier, a well-known people aggregator, was just acquired by LinkedIn - and has already discontinued sign-ups; most of its staff is moving on. We are not sure, but we expect it will be shut down soon.</li>
</ul>
<p>So which tools, among those we have left, work best, and what are some new kids on the block? Come to my <strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingproductively/">Tools Webinar</a></strong> to find some answers!</p>Skill Search on LinkedIn You May Not Have Heard Oftag:recruitingblogs.com,2015-12-15:502551:BlogPost:19352772015-12-15T16:00:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>If you are a Recruiter and have listed your job openings and the skills you are looking for within your LinkedIn profile, chances are, sometimes you receive messages offering a job as a JavaScript programmer or a SAP consultant. Annoying! That happens because you have those <em>keywords</em> on the profile; someone found you in search and forgot to review your profile. It's NOT a good practice sending messaging to people who are not qualified. However, they will not have found you in the…</p>
<p>If you are a Recruiter and have listed your job openings and the skills you are looking for within your LinkedIn profile, chances are, sometimes you receive messages offering a job as a JavaScript programmer or a SAP consultant. Annoying! That happens because you have those <em>keywords</em> on the profile; someone found you in search and forgot to review your profile. It's NOT a good practice sending messaging to people who are not qualified. However, they will not have found you in the first place if they could search for <em>JavaScript</em> and <em>SAP</em>as <em>skills, </em>not just keywords.</p>
<p>A Skill search within the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p" target="_blank">people search dialog</a> would have made searching easier and would eliminate at least some poorly targeted messages. (Why isn't it there??)</p>
<p>Recently - finally! - LinkedIn Recruiter accounts got skills search, as part of the<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin-talent-solutions/next-generation-of-linkedin-recruiter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Next-generation Recruiter</a>. With the Recruiter subscription, we can select skills and and look for profiles with one or more of the selected skills. (There's still no way to search for <em>skill1 AND skill2</em> etc.)</p>
<p>Here is an example. In Recruiter, select <em>major = computer Science, location = San Francisco Bay Area, company = Google OR Apple OR Facebook OR Yahoo OR LinkedIn OR IBM </em>- and see the Skill selection:</p>
<p><img class="center" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_400_400/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAWuAAAAJDQwN2U3YzdlLTQxNzYtNGEyZC1iOTBlLTU4YmE5YzRiNjdjNA.jpg" width="347" height="302"/></p>
<p>It's little known, but we have been able to <strong><em>search</em><em> by skill</em> from a personal account </strong>for a while now - not in the main search dialog, but in the "<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/edu/alumni-fos" target="_blank">Field of Study Explorer</a>".</p>
<p>If we know what college major we are looking for in our prospects, we can <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/edu/alumni-fos" target="_blank">change it</a> using the "Explore more button...</p>
<p><img class="center" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_400_400/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAWYAAAAJDNmYjNhOThjLWU5ZDItNDgzMC05YWQ2LTBmNjllODdiMGZlZQ.jpg" width="246" height="341"/></p>
<p>...and <strong>search for skills.</strong></p>
<p>Try the same search as above using your <em>personal</em> account - <em><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/edu/alumni-fos?id=100189&facets=G.us:84,CC.1441,CC.162479,CC.10667,CC.1288,CC.1337,CC.1009&keyword=&start=0&count=10&filters=off" target="_blank">major = computer Science, location = San Francisco Bay Area, company = Google OR Apple OR Facebook OR Yahoo OR LinkedIn OR IBM</a>.</em></p>
<p>Here's what searching for skills from a personal account using the Field of Study Explorer looks like:</p>
<p><img class="center align-center" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAOxAAAAJDdmOWMzMTFmLWVjZDMtNDk2Yi04Y2NkLTc3MWYyYzk3ZTllNw.jpg" width="562" height="518"/></p>
<p>Just as in Recruiter, this is an <em>OR</em> search for skills. As an example, you can search for <em><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/edu/alumni-fos?id=100189&facets=G.us:84,CC.1441,CC.162479,CC.10667,CC.1288,CC.1337,CC.1009,KE.1346,KE.836,KE.261&keyword=&start=0&count=10&filters=off" target="_blank">skills= Python OR Perl OR PHP</a>.</em></p>
<p>(<em>Note:</em> To have the Skills column included in the Field of Study search, you will need some sort of a premium personal account; unfortunately, the skill selection is no longer displayed when searching from a basic account. I don't think it's documented).</p>
<p>If you'd like to get more people with all of the skills (vs. one of those), you can add the skills in the keyword section: <em><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/edu/alumni-fos?id=100189&facets=G.us:84,CC.1441,CC.162479,CC.10667,CC.1288,CC.1337,CC.1009,KE.1346,KE.836,KE.261&keyword=Python%20Perl%20PHP&start=0&count=10&filters=on" target="_blank">skills= Python OR Perl OR PHP, keywords = Python, Perl, PHP</a></em></p>
<p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> <em>Got a college major, will search by skills.</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>Boolean is Alive and Well, But Long Boolean is Deadtag:recruitingblogs.com,2015-11-12:502551:BlogPost:19303982015-11-12T23:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
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<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/gooooogle.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/gooooogle.jpg?width=496" width="496"></img></a></p>
<p>Recruiters like very long Boolean search strings. Why? It seems that the more synonyms and keyword variations you include, in long <em>OR</em> statements, the better control you get over the results and the more relevant results you will find. It's common to run searches on Google that …</p>
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<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/gooooogle.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/gooooogle.jpg?width=496" width="496" class="align-left"/></a></p>
<p>Recruiters like very long Boolean search strings. Why? It seems that the more synonyms and keyword variations you include, in long <em>OR</em> statements, the better control you get over the results and the more relevant results you will find. It's common to run searches on Google that <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=(cv%20OR%20vitae%20OR%20resume)%20-jobs%20-job%20-apply%20-sample%20%28%22director%22+OR+%22dir%22+OR+%22directeur%22+OR+%22head%22+OR+%22chief%22%29+%28%22of%22%29+%28%22b2b%22+OR+%22business+to+business%22%29+%28%22marketing%22+OR+%22brand%22+OR+%22branding%22+OR+%22advertising%22+OR+%22mkting%22%29+%28%22salesforce%22+OR+%22salesforce.com%22+OR+%22sfdc%22+OR+%22sales+cloud%22+OR+%22service+cloud%22+OR+%22force.com%22%29+%28%22seattle%22%29" target="_blank">push the 32 keywords limit</a>.</p>
<p>The truth is, this approach used to work well, but no longer does. Simple searches (and varied simple searches, run one after another) do better than searches with long OR statements.</p>
<p>Let's take a look at a simple example and compare the search results for a string that spells out synonyms vs. a string that doesn't.</p>
<p>Long Boolean String: <em>resume filetype:PDF (CPA OR "certified public accountant") (PwC OR PricewaterhouseCoopers) tax houston</em></p>
<p>Short Boolean String: <em>resume filetype:PDF CPA PwC tax houston<br/></em> <br/> Here's what the searches look like:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-204374 align-center" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/compare.jpg" alt="compare" width="623" height="334"/></p>
<p>In theory, the string with OR's (the one on the left) should provide more results, but obviously, this theory is outdated!</p>
<p>In many cases, there's no need to include OR statements in Google searches because Google knows about synonyms and keyword variations and will include them automatically. If you search for <em>CPA</em>, it will also search for <em>"certified public accountant"</em>. Remembering that would allow to shrink many favorite saved and reused strings to fewer keywords (and better readability).</p>
<p>Not only including long OR statements doesn't help, because Google would search for synonyms anyway, it may hurt the search. It seems that Google is increasingly "disliking" complex searches and does less than stellar job providing relevant search results. You can think about it this way: when we give Google the space to make sense of the query (vs. controlling the query with overly complex syntax), Google works harder.</p>
<p>I will go into a deeper exploration of the matter in a future post; here's just one observation regarding the numbers of results. As we know, Google <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=search&num=100&start=1000" target="_blank">never provides over 1,000 results</a> and usually caps the number of results at a lower number; it would show 600 or even 300 results and stop there. For longer, complex search strings Google often decides to stop at a <em>smaller</em> number of results. You think you are covering every keyword possibility and should be getting more results, but you are getting fewer results instead. (Oh, and getting more captchas, too...)</p>
<p>No question about it, Google Boolean search can produce fantastic search results; it's just that the search style we use needs to be different than ten years ago.</p>Only a Few Days Left to X-Ray for Unlisted Groupstag:recruitingblogs.com,2015-10-14:502551:BlogPost:19208242015-10-14T21:30:00.000ZIrina Shamaevahttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
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<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/in_groups.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/in_groups.jpg?width=231" width="231"></img></a></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">LinkedIn is in the middle of switching all groups to either …</p>
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<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">LinkedIn is in the middle of switching all groups to either <a href="https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/61173/" target="_blank">Standard or Unlisted</a><em>. </em>My previous <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2015/10/13/changes-in-linkedin-groups-consequences-for-members/">post</a> addresses what it means to us as group members and moderators.</p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Not to be missed! As the switch happens, LinkedIn assigns its best guess to be either in the unlisted or standard categories for each group. Moderators can change the category; many won't. The previously "private" (closed) groups used to be visible on the members' public profiles. That allowed us to Google (X-Ray) for group members for the groups we don't belong to.</p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Obviously, this is a shrinking opportunity. As the Group change happens, we can still see Google still finding the group members for the now-unlisted groups, up until the Googlebot visits the profiles again. But the public profiles have stopped showing that membership in unlisted groups.</p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Here is just one example: this group, <em>"Business Intelligence Professionals (BI, Big Data, Analytics)" </em>has become unlisted. You will not be able to find it in the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/g" target="_blank">LinkedIn group search</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">However, as of today, Google <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fin+OR+site%3Alinkedin.com%2Fpub+-pub.dir+%22Business+Intelligence+Professionals+(BI%2C+Big+Data%2C+Analytics)%22&num=100&newwindow=1&filter=0">still remembers</a> who is a member of the group. Not for too long!</p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-204306" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cached.png" alt="cached" width="436" height="358" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Additionally, as you might have noticed if you X-ray LinkedIn, we can't ask Google for a <a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en">cached</a> LinkedIn profile.</p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">This group membership information will be visible in Google for a very short time.</p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">P.S. Don't tell anybody, but <span style="color: white;"> the unlisted groups are still listed in the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/directory/groups" style="color: #ffffff;">Groups Directory</a>.</span></p>
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