Recruiting and Sourcing Tips, Tricks, Tools and How to's
Author: Shane Bowen
For many recruiters and sourcers, LinkedIn is at the top of the heap for places to find and engage prospective candidates. One of the most popular methods to do this is by X-Raying the site via search engines.
When X-Raying LinkedIn, we generally only want to target profiles, and for better or worse, there are several ways we can accomplish this. The following will help you understand and decide what works best for you as you search for LinkedIn profiles via Google.
Author: Shane Bowen
Google Chrome Extension – LinkedIn Recruiter Chrome Extension
One of the most redundant tasks sourcers and recruiters experience each day is cross-referencing candidates in LinkedIn Recruiter that they’ve found from another source or via an X-Ray search of LinkedIn. The problem is that once we’ve identify a potential candidate, we have to open a new tab, copy the name and paste OR type it into LinkedIn Recruiter and execute another search. This is not time well spent.
So, to improve the speed and efficiency of our sourcing efforts, I created a Search/Cross-Reference Tool that I wanted to share with those who have LinkedIn Recruiter.
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Author: Shane Bowen
When using search engines to source for candidates on LinkedIn, it’s common practice to exclude the “dir” directory. Whether you do it with -dir OR -inurl:dir OR -inurl:pub/dir, the goal is to ensure you eliminate directory listings from showing up in the search results.
With that said, you are potentially missing out on some great talent by excluding the dir directory. So, lets take a look at what can be discovered if we target the dir directory and exclude everything else. The string below is simply an example for you to see the syntax needed to execute the search. The most important piece is: [ inurl:pub.dir (intitle:linkedin -intitle:profiles) ], otherwise run the search as you would any other.Continue Reading…
Author: Jennifer Bowen
Do you X-ray the same sites over and over? Do you ever get tired of writing a search string with the same search operators in it? I do. However, there is an easy way to eliminate that step by creating a Custom Search Engine in Google.
What is a Custom Search Engine (CSE)? It’s like building your own mini Google to search only the sites and keywords that you want to search and eliminate specific sites or keywords that you don’t want. Hence why it’s a “Custom” Search Engine.
While it may sound complicated, it’s not. You don’t have to be a developer or even extremely technical to create one. Let’s start by building a simple one to X-Ray LinkedIn.
Typically, when you want to X-Ray LinkedIn, you would create a string that starts something like this:
Author: Jennifer Bowen
In Part’s 1 and 2 of this Excel series we covered how to manipulate your list of names by either combining or separating the columns. Let’s take that one step further now in the coolest hack of all, automatic email address creation. Through the use of Excel formulas you can take a list of names plus a company email syntax and generate a list of corporate email address. When I finally constructed the correct formulas for each of these I felt that I had hit the jackpot.
Sourcer Tip for Excel #3 – Email Address Creation
Where can this tip come in handy? When you’ve spent time on name generation or org charting of a target company (we’ll call it Company A) and have developed a list of employees whom you’d like to contact. You have also discovered the email syntax that Company A uses. Using the tips taught in Part 2 you can separate out the first and last names in an effort to quickly create a complete list of email address. How? Through the use of one of the following formulas.