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Use Plaxo's new search feature to find passive candidates in Plaxo
Posted May 9th, 2008 by shallyWhen I received the announcement from Plaxo that they were releasing the ability to search for people in the Plaxo network I was surprised. After all, Plaxo was originally intended as a way for me to backup my contacts safely so knowing that others can now search my personal "virtual rolodex" freaked me out.
But as it turns out that's not the case. If you log into your Plaxo account and conduct a search, you will see that it is limited to only contact names. This is good because it means my contacts remain confidential.
But...
Shally's Interview on XtremeRecruiting TV
Posted April 24th, 2008 by shallyBill Vick caught me on a great day (well a bad hair day but still I was in a great mood) and asked me a bunch of questions about sourcing, the "big" one being "With the many tools available for identifying and recruiting passive candidates, how do you measure your return on invested time and effectiveness for your favorite web tools?" Check out my answer (and what others have to say on the subject):
New web references search feature on Zoominfo
Posted April 10th, 2008 by shallyPreviously searches on Zoominfo were limited to the typical fields found in most databases: Company, Industry, Geography, Job Title, etc. A new search functionality extends your sourcing scope further into the “context” of where names are found.
Why is this cool and useful?
I won't be presenting at, or attending, SourceCon2008
Posted March 26th, 2008 by shallyLast Thursday I got a call from the "powers that be" behind SourceCon2008. They called to invite me to assemble and present a pre-conference sourcing masterclass. I was very flattered and honored that they thought of me again so I gave this invitation earnest and thorough consideration.
Nevertheless, I decided against participating, and thought it was important that I shared that with my gentle readers.
Very Exciting New "Company Page" on LinkedIn reveals Competitive Intelligence!
Posted March 21st, 2008 by shallyI'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?
Our three best webinars in one single bundle (LinkedIn, Super Sourcing Search Strings and Shallynar)
Posted March 10th, 2008 by shallyThree of our most requested webinars are now available in one single DVD. For $297.97 you can get the Guru's Guide to Sourcing on LinkedIn (A $89.97 value), our Super Sourcing Search Strings Webinar featuring Broadlook Diver, and the Shallynar Sourcing Sampler (A $149.97 value).
Gigablast is Giga-back with a new look and better features
Posted March 3rd, 2008 by shallyI've been leaving Gigablast out of our workshops because the results and features were much the same as elsewhere. But this new design offers some very cool features worth looking into. You can check them out here: http://beta.gigablast.com/
Chief among them is the ability to easily filter by "freshness date" for pages created in the last day, week, or month, which is very useful for finding recent news about competitors, and also for filtering out "fresh" resumes, etc.
Baron von Boolean, Sultan of Sourcing, Raconteur of Recruiting Research
Posted February 29th, 2008 by shallyOver on ERE a hilarious thread has ensued, harkened by raconteurs Steve Levy and Scott Axle,
further worried by the King of String himself Glenn Gutmacher...
JigSaw has new LinkedIn Integration
Posted February 28th, 2008 by shallyIf you use JigSaw you will be happy to know that it now integrates with LinkedIn. Once you buy a contact (or if you see one in the Graveyard and can get it for free) you can now click through to search for that person on LinkedIn.
Learn how to optimize your search engine ranking
Posted February 25th, 2008 by shallyJason Gorham knows a thing or two about getting high rankings on search engines. He should, he's been working with Search Engine Optimization since 2003 and even holds a patent on a Search Engine Marketing Product. Don't believe he's any good? His web sites rank in the top ten for name sourcing, resume database mining & J2EE Jobs to name a few. Do a Google search for name sourcing and you'll see Sharkstrike.com right there at the top of the page.
