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Sourcing Hints & Tips
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....
3 Searches That Keep It Simple
I work with a lot of recruiters that find Boolean logic and search engine operators difficult to get their heads around. You can still get a lot out of your search tools though, even if you’re totally bamboozled by Boolean. I’ve been thinking about the searches I run...
Do you really need capital letters to make Boolean search work?
When were you last nagged about using capital letters? Probably when you were in Primary school. That won't be the case if you have recently been in a training session with me! I am always nagging recruiters to write OR in capital letters in their searches. The truth...