Add Projects to your LinkedIn profile to improve SEO after LinkedIn restricts what information can be indexed by search engines. LinkedIn recently removed some key sections from our public profiles. Read about them here. Most notably, our Headlines and...
LinkedIn makes big changes to Profiles affecting X-Ray search
LinkedIn recently removed some key pieces of information from our public profiles. Your public LinkedIn profile is what can be seen by someone who is not logged into the website. It’s also the version of your profile that is visible to search engines. What...
Start 2024 with 12 weeks of Sourcing Training
I provide online training courses via Recruiting Gym. This year, Recruiting Gym are opening up the live training provision that goes along with our main sourcing courses for anyone to join. Q1 will be led by me and have a specific focus on using LinkedIn to its...
The best LinkedIn #hashtags for your #MeetYourRecruiter posts
LinkedIn #hashtags to help your content be seen. When someone you’re connected to on LinkedIn uses a hashtag you follow, you’re more likely to see their content. So, when you make posts on LinkedIn, it makes sense to add some hashtags. But not just any hashtags, you...
LinkedIn Update: Changes to the ‘Activity’ Section
New LinkedIn update to the ‘Activity’ Section on LinkedIn profiles, makes it far more obvious to the viewer whether the person they are viewing has posted or interacted on LinkedIn recently. The ‘Activity’ section is located near the top of LinkedIn profiles, above...
Sourcing Hat is now Cup & Sourcer
We are rebranding and changing the company name from Sourcing Hat to Cup & Sourcer! Here's why. In 2012 I registered Sourcing Hat as a limited company. I’d been debating a name, and nothing felt right until this idea dawned on me. I had talked about putting my...
The Benefits of ChatGPT for Recruiters
As a recruiter, your time is valuable. You have a lot of responsibilities, from sourcing and screening candidates to coordinating interviews and negotiating offers. It can be tough to keep up with all of the demands on your time, and anything that can help you work...
A Review of ChatGPT from OpenAI
As a writer the announcement of ChatGPT back in November 2022 made my heart sink. The creativity and imagination we writers love to use, could surely not be recreated by AI tech? But having used OpenAI’s DALL.E 2 image tool, I knew there was a possibility that the AI...
New Linkedin Feature: About This Profile
Have you heard about LinkedIn's new "About this profile" feature?LinkedIn doesn't tend to shout about new features, so it's very possible that this is the first you are hearing of it. I have to say, it is something from an employer or recruiter’s point of view, that I...
8 Chrome Email Finder Extensions For LinkedIn.
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.
Subscribe to our NEW Sourcing Challenge Newsletter on LinkedIn
If you’ve been following us on LinkedIn or Instagram, you may have noticed we started posting regular sourcing challenges.
Now you can stretch your sourcing muscles every week by trying to answer Katharine’s cryptic questions.
To get these challenges straight to your Inbox, subscribe to our new LinkedIn Newsletter – Cup & Sourcer Challenge.
You get one week to solve each challenge and everyone who is successful gets a shout-out in the next edition of the newsletter.
If you enjoy these challenges and think they would benefit you and your team, Katharine offers bespoke in-person or virtual sessions for recruitment teams. Recruiters and sourcers can compete individually or in groups to tackle sourcing challenges tailored to the skills your company hires. These sessions can enhance team building days and instil greater confidence to go out and find the people you need online and look in places you might not have considered before.
Please get in touch if you’d like more information.
Happy Searching! 🔎
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