How to source on the lesser known sites!! Skillpages

Skillspages is a professional community were people create a profile that will list their skills. Some of you have heard of Skillpages but only a few have used it to source. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called x-raying. 

So to source within Skillspages you simply need to create an x-ray string, like the one below. 

site:skillpages.com seattle, wa developer 

If you run the string above in google you will get the results below

Now for those of you looking internationally, you would use the string below and specify a location 

If you need more info on X-raying see my blog post http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/seeing-what-is-really...

site:in.skillpages.com developer

Like Linkedin, Skillpages uses the “in” designation in front of the domain name to signify international.

Next week we will talk about Xing