Archive for July, 2011
How to Search Google Plus to Find People by Location
Would you like to find people on Google+? How about find people on Google+ that live in a specific area? If you answered “Yes!” to the above questions, you’ve come to the right place. I will walk you through the problems with Find People on Plus and Google’s own Google+ search before I show you [...]
How I Search LinkedIn to Find and Identify Talent
Would you like to know how I search LinkedIn when sourcing for talent? I don’t have a premium LinkedIn account, so you may be surprised to learn that I don’t X-Ray search LinkedIn all that often. I’ll tell you why in a moment, but first I would like to share my inspiration for this post. [...]
The Passive Candidate Pipeline Problem
If you’re in HR or recruiting, you’ve undoubtedly been exposed to (and likely believe in) the concept that proactively building passive talent pipelines is critical to talent acquisition success. Some would say that pipelining passive candidates is one of the sacred cows of recruiting – you just don’t question it. It’s my opinion that the [...]
LinkedIn’s Undocumented Search Operator
Earlier this year, I wrote an article on how to use LinkedIn’s advanced search operators as search agents in which I briefly mentioned and demonstrated an undocumented LinkedIn search operator at the very end of the post. Did you catch it? If not, you’re in luck. Although it’s not an Earth-shattering discovery by any means, [...]
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