Archive for March, 2011
How to Find The Total Number of LinkedIn Members
Tweet On March 22nd, LinkedIn announced that they had officially crossed the 100 Million member mark. However, they might have actually crossed the 100 Million member milestone back in January. How would I know? I started seriously exploring LinkedIn Ads ever since they announced that they emerged from beta on 1/26/2011, and I noticed that [...]
Sourcers and Recruiters – Don’t Fear Watson or Semantic Search
Tweet I’ve read a few articles recently talking about IBM’s Watson and how the technology they developed may be the harbinger of unemployment for people in many professions. Here’s one from Fortune magazine, asking if IBM’s Watson will put your job in jeopardy. Here’s another suggesting that those who train others in Internet, social media, [...]
LinkedIn’s Dark Matter – Undiscovered Profiles
Tweet Sourcing has a fundamental problem: All searches return results. Yes, that is actually a problem. Why? Because everyone’s a winner. Type in a few keywords and BAM! – you get some good looking results. Hey, this sourcing stuff isn’t so hard! If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times – sourcing [...]
LinkedIn Sourcing Challenge – X-Ray Location False Positives
Tweet I was extremely pleased to receive many responses/solutions to the Ruby LinkedIn Sourcing Challenge I posted recently, including some from well-known online sourcing heavyweights, as well as a number from other talented folks who came out of the Internet ether from several continents to show off their skills and take a crack at solving [...]
LinkedIn Makes Obvious Moves to Affect X-Ray Searching
Tweet If you happen to do quite a bit of LinkedIn X-Ray searching, you might be noticing that some people are taking control of how they appear in public search results. Or maybe you aren’t noticing it, because you can’t. Confused? Read on to learn more. LinkedIn Profile Changes I’m not exactly sure when this [...]
LinkedIn Sourcing Challenge – Ruby
Tweet During my SourceCon NYC session, I gave an example of a sourcing challenge that can verify one’s “capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge. It is the ability to analyze novel problems, identify patterns and relationships that underpin these problems and the extrapolation of these using logic.” This capacity is [...]
#TRU London 3 Recruiting Unconference Review
Tweet I was invited to attend TRU London 2 in 2010, but I unfortunately had a scheduling conflict and was unable to make it. So when Bill Boorman, conference disorganizer extraordinaire, asked if I could make it out for TRU London 3, I blocked out my calendar as I was determined not to miss this [...]
Update Your Bing X-Ray Searches of LinkedIn to Target Profiles
Tweet Beginning early last week, I’ve had a few people reach out to me and ask about some changes LinkedIn is apparently making to the public profile listings. In the past, I’ve written about how Bing is easier and more effective at searching LinkedIn profiles than Google. One of my suggestions for targeting profiles [...]
