BEWARE: This post takes a contrarian (yet fact-based!) view of the Internet as a sourcing tool that may be unsuitable to some readers. If you don’t want to … Read more
Top 10 Candidate Sourcing Best Practices
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2011. Due to the timeless nature of the content, it was the most popular post of 2013. I firmly … Read more
Twitter Bio Search Through Search Engines: A Comparison
For a long time now, I have been finding new ways to search on Twitter. In fact, I also tried contacting Twitter to find one reason why they do not have a … Read more
Boolean Search Does Not = Internet Search
If you read certain sourcing and recruiting blogs and discussion groups, you might get the impression that Boolean search pretty much equals Internet … Read more
Why Robots Shouldn’t Replace People In Sourcing
I read an article from AdAge yesterday titled Why Robots Shouldn’t Replace People For Social Media Monitoring, by Darrell Jursa. The article is … Read more
Blekko and DuckDuckGo Announce Search Partnership
You may have seen our recent post on the Blekko search engine. Well, today they announced a partnership with semantic search engine DuckDuckGo in an effort … Read more
LinkedIn Unveils Two New Products: Jobs For You and Referral Engine
This morning, at its first ever user conference, Talent Connect, LinkedIn revealed two brand new product offerings to its “Recruiter” … Read more
How to Become a Boolean Black Belt or E-Recruiting Expert
I wrote an article last year that definitively defined the “Boolean Black Belt” concept. In this post, I explain how to become one. The good news is that … Read more
Blekko: A Seriously Cool Search Engine
A new search engine will be unleashed to the public next week. For anyone who wasn’t one of the 8,000 beta testers this summer, Blekko, a … Read more
Artificial Intelligence Resume Matching vs. Human Cognition
Over the years, I have had the opportunity to evaluate several of the “big name” resume and job matching applications that claim to use artificial … Read more