Archive for February, 2009
LinkedIn Poll: Job Boards More Effective for Getting Jobs
Job Boards vs. Social Media – which is more effective at helping people get jobs? At least for now, statistics appear to support that job boards are either more widely used to find jobs, or simply more effective at landing people jobs than social networking sites. According to a recent LinkedIn poll, 4310 people responded and 22% of [...]
Challenging Google Resume Search Assumptions
This post is second in a series focused on using Google to search for resumes on the Internet. In the first post I left some unanswered questions, such as why: I didn’t talk about searching for CV’s I didn’t suggest using the tilde ~ operator in conjuntion with the word “resume” I didn’t use -~job when trying to [...]
How to Find Resumes on the Internet with Google
Want to learn how to find resumes on the Internet using Google? You’ve come to the right place! Whether you are new to searching the Internet for resumes or you are a veteran Interent sourcer, I’ve included some tips, tricks, and observations for the novice and expert alike. Targeting Resumes When using Google to search specifically [...]
Free and Original Content – Let’s Keep it That Way
I had a fantastic converstation with the incredibly knowledgeable and insanely helpful Eric Jaquith the other day, and he gave me a “wake up call” with regard to the content that I publish here on Boolean Blackbelt. Although I have only been blogging for a few months now, I have worked very hard to publish high-value content for everyone to [...]
Boolean Search Does Not = Internet Search
If you read certain sourcing and recruiting blogs and discussion groups, you might get the impression that Boolean search pretty much equals Internet search - such as searching for people and profiles using Google, Yahoo, or other search engines. Some sourcing and recruiting professionals may be surprised to learn that Boolean logic significantly predates the Internet and even computers [...]
How to Write an Effective Resume
In the summer of 2008 I noticed a question on LinkedIn where a job seeker had asked, “What is the best way to create a successful resume?” I decided to respond because as a recruiting and staffing professional with over a decade of experience, I’ve searched for, reviewed, and worked with well over one hundred thousand resumes. I’ve also had the [...]
FREE LinkedIn Search: Internal vs. X-Ray
While there is a growing number of recruiting professionals and organizations who pay for premium access to LinkedIn, there is still a large number of people who leverage LinkedIn with a free or “Personal” account. If you’re on the fence about paying for increased access to LinkedIn, you’re reading the right post. I’m going to [...]
Job Boards vs. Social Networking Sites
I follow a number of recruiting blogs as well as many sourcers and recruiters on Twitter and I see a growing trend of job board bashing – typically comparing them (very) unfavorably to social networking sites and applications. I love and leverage social networking as much as the the next recruiting professional, but I refuse to just [...]
LinkedIn: Private vs. Out of Network Results
LinkedIn: Private vs. Out of Network Results I recently wrote about how to leverage LinkedIn’s Advanced Search Operators and I commented on LinkedIn’s relatively new search interface. Aside from search options, one other somewhat new aspect of searching inside LinkedIn using their search interface is that you can now return some results that are outside of [...]
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