When trying to find email addresses on LinkedIn I find the simplest solution is to use a Chrome Extension. Here are the 8 I have tested so far.
Why Recruiters Should Have 500+ Connections on LinkedIn
500+ connections on LinkedIn is a badge of honour for recruiters. I always wonder what’s going on when I see a recruiter’s profile and they have fewer than 500 connections, especially if they have been in recruitment for more than a year. Think about it, a recruiter...
Why Recruiters Should Have 500+ Connections on LinkedIn
500+ connections on LinkedIn is a badge of honour for recruiters. I always wonder what’s going on when I see a recruiter’s profile and they have fewer than 500 connections, especially if they have been in recruitment for more than a year. Think about it, a recruiter...
What is the meaning of X-Ray Search?
X-ray search should be a key part of any recruiter's talent sourcing tool kit. But what does it mean? X-ray search is one of the things I'm asked to explain most often. Many experienced recruiters don't know what it means, or why you might use it. That's OK, I'm here...
#MeetYourRecruiter Week – A LinkedIn Posting Challenge for Recruiters, 9-13 August 2021
#MeetYourRecruiter is a LinkedIn Posting Challenge for recruiters. Posting on LinkedIn is a great habit to get into, it can greatly increase your visibility. #MeetYourRecruiter is here to help get you into the habit of posting regularly. Research suggests we should...
Google Search Tools – A menu you might not even know is there
Sourcing Hat now has a YouTube channel. This is the first video in my Google Search Tips for Recruiters series. Here we look at Google’s search tools. It's essential to know about the Tools menu if you regularly source on Google. Google's Tools menu can help you...
How To Send A Voice Message On LinkedIn
Alternative messaging techniques came up earlier this month when I was running a session with Alex Moyle for The Recruiting Gym. I realised that not everyone knew sending a voice message was an option on LinkedIn. This can be useful when you're out and about - it's so...
Launching the AirSource Podcast
Every month Katharine from Sourcing Hat and Andy from Aspen In-house will be bringing you soundbites from the world of sourcing in the form of the AirSource podcast. Look for new episodes on the second Thursday of every month. The next episode will be ready to...
Are You Incepting Desirable Talent Ready For January?
Is anyone actually looking for a new job right now, in December? Yes, of course. But there are also a lot of people that are putting it off and people who haven’t even thought about it yet. It’s easy to get caught up in the holiday season. Things are winding down now....
Changes To LinkedIn Will Affect How You Recruit And Source
LinkedIn are making big changes that will affect just about every aspect of using the site. LinkedIn says that they want the interface to be consistent between desktop and mobile. From what I can piece together, this means the interface is getting stripped back and we...
What is X-Ray Search anyway?
I get asked about X-Ray search all the time. The question cropped up again at the UK Sourcers meetup in Leeds this February.
It’s one of those terms that gets thrown around, along with search strings and boolean, to mean “whatever it is you do with Google to get those impressive search results that I can’t get”.
Well, all these terms do actually mean something.
A search string is just whatever you’ve typed into Google (or whatever database you are searching). Even if it’s just two words, that’s your search string.
Boolean is a type of mathematical logic. All databases use Boolean logic to return results for the search strings you enter. Boolean pretty much covers using the concepts AND, OR and NOT in your search strings.
An X-Ray search, sometimes called a site search, is a technique you can use on search engines like Google and Bing. X-Raying is a way to finding web pages from just one specific website.
If I type the search string site:sourcinghat.co.uk into Google, it will show me all the pages from this website that Google has indexed and has stored in its database.
X-Raying is actually very simple but don’t be fooled – it’s a ridiculously useful search technique that I use all the time.
My Top 5 uses for X-Ray search
Search company sites
If you have a list of target companies, why not run a quick X-Ray search on their websites? Look for job titles, contact details or news.
Search industry sites
Industry news sites can be a great source of names. Don’t forget associations and events too. Some of these searches can be useful when teamed up with Google Alerts.
Search sites with lots of user profiles
X-Ray searching LinkedIn is key skill for all recruiters and sourcers but you can X-Ray search any site with lots of user profiles like About.me, Branded.me, Github, Meetup, Stackoverflow, Viadeo, Xing.
Search for personal webpages
Did you know that you can also do a site search on a top level domain? Lots of people use .me domain names for their personal websites. Try searching something like site:me “download my cv” with some of your own keywords and see what you can find.
Taking sites out of your search results
I use this a lot when cross referencing a person I have found on LinkedIn. Sometimes LinkedIn is all over the search results I get on Google. To take them out and see what else is out there, we can use the minus sign with the site operator like this:
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