Yahoo has different way to help you find people on LinkedIn by locating those who link back to their LinkedIn profile from somewhere on their blog, resume or other webpage. At the yahoo.com search box enter:
And the third is all new information on Web 2.0 recruitment techniques using networks that are far larger than LinkedIn where you can source, network and build your employment brand at little to no cost:
And with that I'll leave you with my observations from a recent trip to Singapore where I learned quite a bit about Asian culture and recruiting in the Far East. I call it:
Glenn is the undisputed 'king of search string.' In the ever changing fast paced world of Internet sourcing there are those who are highly skilled in applying techniques, and with that gain a competitive advantage, but among those there are a rare few with the ability to adapt and create new techniques on the fly. Glenn is chief among them and has been practicing what he preaches for many years, creating and testing new techniques which have become the gold standard of Internet research. He has been right there with me since the very first moment I realized there were others out there who shared my passion for recruitment research. We have collaborated vastly over the years, with the end product of such collaboration undoubtedly being greater than a sum of its parts.
This is why I am very pleased that ERE has made it possible for Glenn to share his wisdom with all of us during a one-of-a-kind webinar, 'The Sourcer's Daily Dozen: E-Sourcing Methods from a Recruiting Research Guru.' There is no cost to attend this event because it is underwritten by ERE and the sponsor, Jobscience.
If you have any interest in sourcing, this is an event you absolutely must attend. Glenn will be demonstrating the fastest no-cost methods to find resumes outside of the job boards by geography, # of direct reports supervised, and other criteria. He will show you how to find relevant, unblinded LinkedIn and other social network profiles quickly, even ones beyond your 3-degree network.
Over the last five years Glenn and I have collaborated on a number of effective bookmarklets, or browser scripts, that make is possible for you to run complex strings without having to remember all the boolean syntax and special search engine commands, and get ongoing, new relevant results automatically. During this event Glenn will be highlighting a few of those and letting you know how you can install them into any browser. Also during his session you will learn how to find alternative company names, job titles, and jargon that will reveal hidden leads.
- Thu, 22 May 2008 16:48:01 PST
Shally's tips on how to not let your email inbox bring you down
You inbox can get out of control, particularly when you are traveling to conferences and away from your office for a few days. Since I just got back from the Spring ERE and am now headed out to the Australasian Talent Conference I thought some of my fellow travelers would find this blog post timely.
With a daily average fluctuating between 500 and 700 new messages in my Outlook, Auto responders, Junk Mail and Filtering are simply survival tools for me, specially after long trips when I'm officially working but away from my computer during large parts of the day.
The SEND button is overused and much of what skirts around your spam blocker and manages to land in your inbox is fluff. Some mail you?ll definitely want to keep, even a bit of ?resume spam? can be useful in the future, but other mail is total junk you want to delete unread. However, what about all those messages which require your action? Like good resumes among the bad spam, solid business opportunities could also be lost to inbox bloat.
Like me you may use Outlook but most advanced email programs today offer you solutions to help with inbox bloat. I have been using Outlook for the last ten years and have developed quite the expertise on filtering email using the Organize function and the Rules Wizards. Most email providers, like mine, employ robust, top of the line enterprise grade spam filters, which capture a vast majority of the real trash. What I need is a system that helps me organize and prioritize the pieces that are not clearly trash so I can quickly pick out the real opportunities from the marginal.
For that, I use Folders, Colors, Views and the Junk Mail feature in Outlook. These features are available by selecting Tools in your Outlook, and from that menu choose Organize. Here are some efficient ways to deal with professional, non-commercial, inbound mail, whether it is resume spam, solicited leads or unsolicited ?announcements:?
FOLDERS
I use the folder tab to select from specific senders to go in designated folders. Messages from friends and family go in the Private folder, messages from newsletters I subscribe to go in their respective folders for each newsletter. I do the same with emails from LinkedIn and other online networks. I even create folders for each campaign and automatically move all incoming reply?s to that particular campaign folder.
COLORS
I filter messages from specific senders by coloring them in groups like gray for pseudo-junk, red for internal messages from my co-workers and anything marked Urgent, blue from my close friends, yellow for news, green for external business and so on. You get the picture! It is much easier to distinguish the messages this way and take appropriate action.
VIEWS
I set aside a period in the mid-morning just before lunch, with a cup of coffee, to go through my email and start with selecting my views. I select the view by 'Conversation Topic' or ?Thread.? This lists messages with common subjects all together, and this way can take action on or delete entire threads at once without having to comb through the whole mess. Next, I go to the view by 'Sender' and again can review all the messages from one person and either take action, move to a folder for later or delete them. Finally I choose the 'Sent To' view which sorts all of what's left in a list which lets me view if they were sent to my work or private account, or if I was just copied on a message to someone else, or if it?s a message to a list or group. This is a great view because I can see whom the message was sent to ? and it is not always sent directly to me. If I am not the only one in the TO: box then it is quite likely that the message is of less priority, unless of course it is from a client, co-worker, or someone I know well. For example, messages to a list are addressed to the list and sorted that way unless they were private messages sent directly and only to me. I then take action on all the ones where my primary address is the only one in the TO: box, then I look at my other email accounts, then I sort through the ones where I was copied, and finally I glance through the ones that are from services like lists, groups, LinkedIn, Plaxo and so on. This works best if you have or can set up aliases like jobs@yourcompany.com. It also works great with multiple email accounts.
There are three other organizational aids to help you control inbox clutter: the Junk Mail processing feature, flags, and the built-in Rules Wizard.
JUNK
To access the Junk Mail settings simply hold down the right mouse button while you hover over an email message. You will see a menu where one of the choices is the ?Junk Email? organizer. Select this and you can enter Junk Email Options where the systems lets you manage junk messages and ?adult content? that makes it through your spam filters. I choose to move them - they go in a Junk Email folder so I can keep them on record in case A) it gets out of hand and I want to take action or B) it turns out later they were erroneously marked as spam and it is a real email. You can also right click on a message and mark the sender as a Junk. This way you build your junk sender list on the fly. You can always edit this list yourself and download updates from Microsoft.
When you right click on a message in your inbox one of the Junk Email choices immediately accessible is ?Add sender to Blocked Senders List.? What this does is move that email address to a list of addresses that you are Outlook will block. In the future, any messages from that sender will be treated as junk and either deleted, or moved to the Junk folder depending on what you choose under Junk Email Options.
FLAGS
Some time ago, I took a course in time management where I learned that to be effective handling items on my desk I should only pick them up once and either A) delegate, B) take action or C) create a task. With Outlook Flags, I can do the same thing in my inbox. I can sort by flag status; assign flags with one of six colors. By right clicking on the flag icon on my message in the inbox view, I can quickly assign a color, create a task reminder, or delete the flag. You can create your own arbitrary ?category? for each color. For example, mine are:
- Red: Urgent Action pending on my part, item requires my attention and has a tight deadline
- Orange: Action required on my part, and there?s a loose due date but it is neither firm nor impending
- Yellow: Item requiting further discussion with someone else before I can take any action
- Blue: Item where I am awaiting response or feedback from someone else and the item needs my follow up before it can be completed
- Purple: anything that is ?for the record? or FYI like info to read or look at but such that it doesn't require any action on my part
- Green: item that has received an automated response via my Rules Wizard
In addition to colored flags for messages, I can also add a reminder to the flag. This reminder can have no due date, or it can pop up a notification at a date and time I choose. Once the alert comes up, or at any time once I take action on the item I can mark it completed, clear the flag, or even change the due date. Some default tasks are built into the flag interface. The ones I find myself using frequently are: call, follow up, FYI, reply and review, but I can also type in my own reminder text like ?Call Bob to see if he?s still interested? and so on. Finally, you can sort your inbox by color of flag, or use views to see only specific flags and even sort them by due date.
RULES WIZARD
Spam will never completely cease but with the Rules Wizard, you have quite a bit of control. You may know some of the more common features like the Out of Office Assistant, which is actually a preset rule, but there are a vast amount of activities you can manage with the Rules Wizard, limited only by your imagination. Here are a few ideas on things the Rules can do, taken from my own settings:
You can use Rules Wizard to:
- Create alerts that show up on your desktop
- Create tasks and ?to do?s? or reminders for specific messages, senders, subjects, emails with certain keywords
- Craft automatic replies (auto responders)
- Distinguish internal from external mail
- Expire or move mail after a certain number of days
- Filter all the items from a mailing list, group or source like Linked, Plaxo, newsletters, etc.
- Filter junk mail that makes it into your mailbox
- Flag items for future activities
- Forward specific senders or topics to your mobile phone or to an assistant
- Handle messages forwarded from another user's mailbox
- Mark specific emails as read
- Search for phrases in messages
- Sort messages by mail account
- Turn emails into tasks, contacts or calendar items
Windows Library offers a great ?primer? on using the Rules Wizard here: http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/191/17/toc.html
The list of people who use email grows so quickly that we will have to deal with ever-increasing volumes of real email, never mind the Spam. Many of these features are also available in other email clients besides Outlook. Look under the Help menu of your program for items relating to ?Organization? or ?Rules.? Please visit jobmachine.net for hundreds of other recruitment and sourcing tips and if you have any questions send me an email and it will be colored green, marked urgent, moved to a folder and selected under the unread messages view ;)
Shally
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Competitive Intelligence now on LinkedIn for 160,000+ companies!
I'm very excited about LinkedIn's new release from last night.
When you do a search and see someone's employer in their profile, you can now click on some of those companies and see a summary page of competitive intelligence!
Over 160,000 profiles of companies will show this feature and any user can see them. The company profile contains a succinct overview of a company's industry data in combination with LinkedIn data, and it pulls information from Capital IQ.
What do you see here?
A list of all that company's employees to which you are connected
A list of RECENT HIRES from that company! (also from your network)
A list of people RECENTLY PROMOTED at that company! (also from your network)
A list of companies were people CAME FROM before they were hired to this company!
A list of companies people GO TO when they leave this company!
A list of companies that this company's employees are 'most connected' to!
What locations do most of the company's employees live in!
The company's most common job titles
From what universities the company hires the most
The average tenure for people at that company (how long they last)
And a distribution of AGE and GENDER at that company!
And soon you will also be able to add, to your company page, the following:
A list of targeted jobs, recruitment videos, and other promotional material for recruitment efforts
Information about your company's products and services
Company images
WOW!!!!
Shally
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- Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:49:01 PST
Do you like LinkedIn's new face lift? Shally likes the new pervasive search feature!
If you haven't logged into LinkedIn lately you will be surprised when you do because they have now activated their new interface which had been in beta testing.
I find it easier to navigate LinkedIn now, with less clicks to get to what I want. In fact, you can now add a people search module right to your LinkedIn Home Page that shows you any new profiles matching your criteria! This is effectively a 'pervasive' search meaning that it acts as an agent and will show you any new results matching your criteria. You can search by Company and Title.
How?
When you log in, on the right hand side right below the advertisement you should see the default modules 'ProfileViews' along with a few others like 'People' and 'Answers.' Below that there's button to 'Add a module' with a plus sign to the left of it. Hover over that button with your mouse and click on 'People Search' and this will now display a search by Company and Title right on your home page. Enter the criteria then click the save button and this new search will always appear on your home page. You can add a few of these to match your most critical research projects.
I'm still holding out for the ability to search through my incoming requests though...
How do you feel about the new face lift?
Cheers,
Shally
Shally
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DVD!
Do you like LinkedIn's new face lift? Shally likes the new pervasive search feature!
If you haven't logged into LinkedIn lately you will be surprised when you do because they have now activated their new interface which had been in beta testing.
I find it easier to navigate LinkedIn now, with less clicks to get to what I want. In fact, you can now add a people search module right to your LinkedIn Home Page that shows you any new profiles matching your criteria! This is effectively a 'pervasive' search meaning that it acts as an agent and will show you any new results matching your criteria. You can search by Company and Title.
How?
When you log in, on the right hand side right below the advertisement you should see the default modules 'ProfileViews' along with a few others like 'People' and 'Answers.' Below that there's button to 'Add a module' with a plus sign to the left of it. Hover over that button with your mouse and click on 'People Search' and this will now display a search by Company and Title right on your home page. Enter the criteria then click the save button and this new search will always appear on your home page. You can add a few of these to match your most critical research projects.
I'm still holding out for the ability to search through my incoming requests though...
How do you feel about the new face lift?
Cheers,
Shally
Shally
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Randy Bailey is a LinkedIn Group Maniac!
You could learn from this fellow Open Networker!
Amassing more LinkedIn Groups on his profile than any other recruiter alive, Randy has assembled what has to be the most impressive LinkedIn Groups collection I have ever seen.
He started with a few tips he picked up from my LinkedIn webinar where I teach some hacks on how you can find groups to join, but it seems Randy took my advice very seriously and in fact has taken it to a whole new level. It appears he has pretty much mastered the art of joining groups. In addition to my hacks he also started looking for profiles with large lists of groups, and adding those groups to his
profile.
As a result,
Randy is now a Power Networker! With such a broad network, Randy would be a great addition to your list of contacts. You can invite him to connect with you here just enter his email address (rbailey AT stephire DOT com) and click send, then check out his
profile.
HINT: How did Randy add all those groups? He right-clicked on each of the icons under the Additional Information section of a profile and selected 'Open in new tab' or 'Open in new window' then simply accepted the invitation to each of those groups :)
Shally
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Sourcing at Lightspeed with Shally's Super Sourcing Shortcuts for Broadlook Diver
On February 8th at 1pm US EST I will be presenting an exclusive 90-minute 'how-to' webinar on utilizing the most advanced search strings I have ever created. NOTE: You don't need Diver to take advantage of this webinar, and... I don't get any commission for copies sold, but after this session you are going to wonder how you can get by without using this amazing sourcing automation tool.
This is NOT a software demo! This is a very advanced search engine sourcing class for serious researchers who want to automate the time-consuming, repetitive, and tedious task of downloading resulst from search engines.
During the session I will go over how I build advanced deep web search syntax to source resumes and prospect ledas. This is unlike anything you have seen me do before (unless you went to SourceCon).
For example, did you know you could use Diver to download a big list of names free from JigSaw using a simple Google hack?
Try this in Diver (of course, replacing with your own target company):
site:jigsaw.com intitle:in.jigsaw's 'COMPANY NAME'
Just one page of results will get Diver to click through to JigSaw and inhale a bunch of results. They don't have phone numbers but those are easy enough to get once you have the names :)
When: Friday, February 8th 1-2:30 pm US EST
Should you attend?
Yes, if you are an advanced researcher interested in honing your skill with the most effective passive lead generation search strings available anywhere...
Yes if you are a busy recruiter, sourcer or researcher interested in automating the trivial nature of downloading contacts results pages
And DEFINITELY YES if you are considering purchasing Diver and want to know its true capacities
And ABSOLUTELY YES if you are already using Diver and want to get the most out of it
What you will learn:
How to use search engines to find hard-to-find candidates in seconds
How to reduce 8 hours of finding résumés and online prospects to 15 minutes
How to source hard-to-find leads direct from within specific companies
How to apply laser focused search techniques that you can use on just about any search engine
For attending the webinar, you get:
A free 14-day trial of Broadlook Diver (this is double the regularly available trial period)
$150 off of the regular purchase price of Broadlook Diver (cannot be combined with other offers)
One year of Contact Capture for free (a $209 value)
Plus, a special custom set of my Super Sourcing Search Strings you can load right into the Diver application
Cost (incl. training materials) is only $149.97 per line!
- Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:42:01 PST
The Guru's Guide to Sourcing on LinkedIn
I plan to cover some LinkedIn hacks, tips and tricks. Plus. if its anything like our last event then we'll get some very good questions so I plan to also do tons of Q&A after the 60 min presentation.
One thing I'm going to go over is how to find LinkedIn Groups. With the new release groups are easier than ever to create, and of course they have become easier to join. For example, here's a nice listing:
http://MyLinkGroups.com. But with groups added every day there's a few things we can do to find them using search engines. One example of that is just to Google this:
intext:www.linkedin.com/e/gis
But come to the webinar and we'll go over how to use the above, plus a couple of other techniques to find groups.
Its $89 per line, 60 min plus plenty of Q&A after, and we may also be able to recor it so we can make a DVD available! See you there.
- Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:00:01 PST
Increasing the Pool of Minority Applicants
From time to time I get interesting articles sent my way from other industry experts and this week one of those really caught my eye. It was a white paper from the Institute for Corporate Productivity (14cp) about minority recruiting.
- Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:20:01 PST
15 More countries added to LinkedIn Zip Code Radius search
Previously I broke the news that LinkedIn had expanded the 'Zip Code Radius' search feature beyond just the USA to include postal codes in the UK and Canada.
Today I have some great news for International recruiters... 15 more countries have been added! (So that's 18 total)...
Hint; you won't find this complete list in the '
learn more' link under hte Location search box on LinkedIn. That list is missing a few countries that are already live!
Shally
More free LinkedIn resources
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You MUST read these award winning blogs!
If recruitment had its own 'calendar' or 'zodiac' like many cultures do then the year 2007 should be known, among recruiters at least, as 'The Year of the Blog.'
Two contests this year attempted to decide which blogs are worthy of being on the top of your list. With so many new and high quality recruitment blogs the only clear winner is the recruiter seeking to stay up to date and broaden their horizons.
Click
here to read my thoughts about the winners, and find some interesting links like an RSS feed of the top blogs, etc.
Shally
- Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:07:01 PST
You MUST read these award winning blogs!
If recruitment had its own 'calendar' or 'zodiac' like many cultures do then the year 2007 should be known, among recruiters at least, as 'The Year of the Blog.'
Two contests this year attempted to decide which blogs are worthy of being on the top of your list. With so many new and high quality recruitment blogs the only clear winner is the recruiter seeking to stay up to date and broaden their horizons.
Click
here to read my thoughts about the winners, and find some interesting links like an RSS feed of the top blogs, etc.
- Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:05:01 PST
What Everyone Ought to Know About Blogging
Happy New Year, and here's wishing all of you great success and much adventure in 2008!
As it turns out, some of the callers were winners of the
2007 Recruiting Blog Awards, so The Animal proceeded in his usual inquisitional style to lambast us all and ask painfully direct questions. It was awesome.
For example, he asked us each to spill the beans on why we think our blogs have been successfull. He also asked for specifics on who's made hires directly attributed to their blog, and even their Facebook profile. Listen to the show to get the answers to those and other querries.
And this brings me to a list of blogging resources I published on my website:
http://jobmachine.net/bloggresources. It includes tips on blogging like 10 sure-fire headline formulat, marketing advice, getting noticed, site optimization, themse and templates, usability and design tips, etc. and my favorite, how to avoid running out of steam.
Shally
- Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:32:01 PST
Wrapping up 2007 conferences
...Kennedy, ERE, Onrec, Sourcecon, SHRM, NAPS, HR Tech and Direct Employers...
Check out this blog post on John Sumser's Roadshow website about this years conference season. In it he discusses Kennedy, Onrec, Sourcecon, ERE, HR Tech and Direct Employers. I presented at all of those and have to tell you I'm tired, but its been a fantastic year for conferences. I've got way more than I gave. I don't plan to travel this much next year because I'm a new daddy, so this was a great experience.
But mostly I've learned that the benefit I get from attending conferences comes from (read more...)
- Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:50:01 PST
LinkedIn Unleashed ? find every contact in LinkedIn!
I have some great news for researchers! George Seiters hinted to this in my
two minute video with him, but here?s the full scoop: with the new Pro Plus LinkedIn account I?ve been testing you can now find anyone inside LinkedIn ? and you are no longer limited by they size of your network. They are calling this ?All-Search? and it means that when you do a search for a particular job title or company name you find all the contacts that exist inside LinkedIn, even if you have only a handful of connections. In addition, with this account you can also see 1,000 results instead of the 500 available in other accounts, and you can use the postal code radius search I
previously described for US, Canada and UK.
Shally
- Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:34:01 PST
New cute candid photos of Sammy Jo
OK finally some nice photos of 12 day old Sammy Jo
- Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:05:01 PST
Announcing a new generation of worldwide sourcing domination!
On December 5th, 2007, 2:25 PM EST, weighing in at 8 proud pounds and 3 ounces, measuring 20 inches in length, squirmy little Samantha Jo Steckerl rip-roaringly came screaming into this world at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA.
- Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:32:01 PST
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