Comments on: How to Search For Candidates on Facebook http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/ Leveraging social networks, resume databases, and the Internet for sourcing and recruiting Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:48:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Boolean Black Belt http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5858 Boolean Black Belt Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:40:27 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-5858 @Priscilc Thanks for reading, and thank you for your compliment on my Twitter post - I'm glad you found it helpful! I just tried one of my linkdomain searches from the post again, and it seems to work fine. See: http://bit.ly/du38LE Can you give me an example of a linkdomain search not working so I can investigate? Thanks! @Priscilc Thanks for reading, and thank you for your compliment on my Twitter post – I’m glad you found it helpful!

I just tried one of my linkdomain searches from the post again, and it seems to work fine.

See: http://bit.ly/du38LE

Can you give me an example of a linkdomain search not working so I can investigate? Thanks!

]]> By: Priscilc http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5857 Priscilc Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:23:27 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-5857 Hi, I just tried using Yahoo's Linkdomain search for Facebook and it didn't seem to work. Has Facebook's structure changed once again so now even you can't use Yahoo to search on it? If you could look into this issue, please do. I also wanted to say, great job on the entry about searching on Twitter, it's a fantastic article! Hi,

I just tried using Yahoo’s Linkdomain search for Facebook and it didn’t seem to work. Has Facebook’s structure changed once again so now even you can’t use Yahoo to search on it? If you could look into this issue, please do.

I also wanted to say, great job on the entry about searching on Twitter, it’s a fantastic article!

]]> By: Novoline http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5742 Novoline Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:59:07 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-5742 The post was informative and provided me the knowledge I needed.Thank you for post. The post was informative and provided me the knowledge I needed.Thank you for post.

]]> By: Boolean Black Belt http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5493 Boolean Black Belt Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:50:03 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-5493 Jonathan, Thanks for reading and sharing some excellent points/insight. You can most certainly make the best of Facebook's seriously limited search interface and functionality, but what a painful process it is. And frustrating because of the knowledge that Facebook contains over 350M people in it - such a treasure trove of human capital, but ridiculously hard to tap effectively! Jonathan,
Thanks for reading and sharing some excellent points/insight. You can most certainly make the best of Facebook’s seriously limited search interface and functionality, but what a painful process it is. And frustrating because of the knowledge that Facebook contains over 350M people in it – such a treasure trove of human capital, but ridiculously hard to tap effectively!

]]> By: Boolean Black Belt http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5489 Boolean Black Belt Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:39:14 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-5489 Stephen - nice find! I've been meaning to update that post for a while now. Some time in late 2009, Facebook simply eliminated their "advanced search interface" (which wasn't very advanced anyway), removing one of the more effective ways of digging into Facebook. It appears Facebook likes to be searchable at the first grade level (sorry - I call them as I see them Mr. Zuckerberg). I've just updated the post to refelct the fact that the link no longer works, but I left the screenshots in for historical purposes. Stephen – nice find! I’ve been meaning to update that post for a while now. Some time in late 2009, Facebook simply eliminated their “advanced search interface” (which wasn’t very advanced anyway), removing one of the more effective ways of digging into Facebook. It appears Facebook likes to be searchable at the first grade level (sorry – I call them as I see them Mr. Zuckerberg).

I’ve just updated the post to refelct the fact that the link no longer works, but I left the screenshots in for historical purposes.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5484 Stephen Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:49:34 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-5484 Hi Glen, Do you know of another way to get to Facebook's advanced search? The link above states that "page requested was not found." Hi Glen,

Do you know of another way to get to Facebook’s advanced search? The link above states that “page requested was not found.”

]]> By: Jonathan Campbell http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5460 Jonathan Campbell Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:22:03 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-5460 Hi Glen I am sure that you already do this yourself, but for those who don't, Facebook's search tool CAN be used to effectively find certain candidates. For example, if you type "Lawyer" into the search box and then narrow down the results by location (limited to your own network or location), you can find great people. By googling their names, you will find their full details in more than 50% of results. Many people still leave their employer info as public (or at least shared with people within their network), occasionally you get to see their employment details directly in your FB results. If you have employees who are set up on Facebook with different network locations, you can expand your search to include more networks, assuming these employees dont mind you searching through their Facebook accounts. As Joe correctly points out, FB search does not accept multiple terms, which is a bit crazy but that's their right I guess! Johnny Hi Glen
I am sure that you already do this yourself, but for those who don’t, Facebook’s search tool CAN be used to effectively find certain candidates. For example, if you type “Lawyer” into the search box and then narrow down the results by location (limited to your own network or location), you can find great people. By googling their names, you will find their full details in more than 50% of results. Many people still leave their employer info as public (or at least shared with people within their network), occasionally you get to see their employment details directly in your FB results.
If you have employees who are set up on Facebook with different network locations, you can expand your search to include more networks, assuming these employees dont mind you searching through their Facebook accounts.
As Joe correctly points out, FB search does not accept multiple terms, which is a bit crazy but that’s their right I guess!

Johnny

]]> By: Joe Neitham http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4038 Joe Neitham Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:02:48 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-4038 Hi Glen, I am on of your many fans. The past weeks I've been doing some digging on Facebook and I totally agree with you on all your observation. It does gets so frustrating to the point that I might just stop using Facebook to source for candidates. I tried searching using the 'Search box' and I also tried using the Advanced search and I just dont understand the search rationale behind. I then tried Site: command and found that when I put the two words together - recruitment consultant or "recruitment consultant" or ~recruit consultant, it just won't give me any result. So when I input just ~recruitment or ~recruit it gives me results but I realize that most of them are false positives. I agree with you that FB is not the best tool for recruiters. Rgds, Joe, Singapore Hi Glen,
I am on of your many fans. The past weeks I’ve been doing some digging on Facebook and I totally agree with you on all your observation. It does gets so frustrating to the point that I might just stop using Facebook to source for candidates. I tried searching using the ‘Search box’ and I also tried using the Advanced search and I just dont understand the search rationale behind. I then tried Site: command and found that when I put the two words together – recruitment consultant or “recruitment consultant” or ~recruit consultant, it just won’t give me any result. So when I input just ~recruitment or ~recruit it gives me results but I realize that most of them are false positives.
I agree with you that FB is not the best tool for recruiters.

Rgds,
Joe, Singapore

]]> By: How to X-Ray Search Facebook for Sourcing Candidates | Boolean Black Belt http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-2998 How to X-Ray Search Facebook for Sourcing Candidates | Boolean Black Belt Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:00:42 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-2998 [...] recently wrote a post on how to search for candidates on Facebook where I featured all of Facebook’s “built-in” search capabilities. Shortly after [...] [...] recently wrote a post on how to search for candidates on Facebook where I featured all of Facebook’s “built-in” search capabilities. Shortly after [...]

]]> By: How to X-Ray Search Facebook for Sourcing Candidates | Boolean Black Belt http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/03/how-to-search-for-candidates-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-2999 How to X-Ray Search Facebook for Sourcing Candidates | Boolean Black Belt Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:00:42 +0000 http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/?p=1792#comment-2999 [...] recently wrote a post on how to search for candidates on Facebook where I featured all of Facebook’s “built-in” search capabilities. Shortly after [...] [...] recently wrote a post on how to search for candidates on Facebook where I featured all of Facebook’s “built-in” search capabilities. Shortly after [...]

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