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Dillistone — IRT webinar (November 2013)
33 slides from Dillistone's conference presentation, November 2013
Slide 1: Internet Research Techniques for Recruiters
INTERNET RESEARCH TECHNIQUES FOR RECRUITERS This webinar was brought to you courtesy of: www.dillistone.com www.voyager-software.com.au
Slide 2: Overview
Overview • Basic Search Skills • Bing vs. Google • Google • Finding High Profile Candidates • Finding Details • Other Searches • LinkedIn • Other Sites: Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Basic Search Techniques • Most techniques can be used on all the major search engines • Be accurate, use the correct synt
Slide 3: Basic Search Techniques: Cloud Search Results
Basic Search Techniques Try these: • Calculator 5*9+2 • Flight Status BA0308 • Currency Convertor 150 GBP in CAD Basic Search Techniques ‘Cloud’ Search Results www.yippy.com • Queries top search engines • Combines the results into ‘clouds’ • Ranks the results Raises best results to the top and pushe
Slide 4: Searching the Deep Web
Basic Search Techniques 100000 80000 WWW 60000 Library of Congres s Deep Web 40000 20000 0 Basic Search Techniques Searching the Deep Web One example: www.pipl.com Other options will come… 3
Slide 5: Wildcard and Synonym Searches
Basic Search Techniques Wildcard * • CEO will find Chief Executive Officer • Chief * Officer will find - Chief Executive Officer - Chief Technology Officer - Chief Operating Officer etc. Basic Search Techniques Search for synonyms • ~director of marketing • Director of Marketing • Chief Marketing Of
Slide 6: Quotation Marks and Ignoring Common Words
Basic Search Techniques Quotation Marks • Investment Management Consultant 6,660,000 • “Investment Management” Consultant 3,000,000 • “Investment Management Consultant” 15,200 • “is an Investment Management Consultant with” 811 Basic Search Techniques Ignore common words • If not wanted, type - • At
Slide 7: Patent Attorney Search Example; Bing vs. Google
Basic Search Techniques “is a patent attorney” 326,000 “is a patent attorney” AND “private practice” 111,000 “is a patent attorney” “private practice” -jobs -apply -submit -"what is“ 28,000 Bing vs. Google Google has a 32 word limit Yahoo is unlimited Bing is 150 characters 6
Slide 8: Google
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Slide 9: Bing and Searching Affiliations
Bing • engineering managed NEAR:3 people (resume OR CV OR vitae) • location – use to find pages from a specific country e.g. “equity trader” cv location:gb Finding High Profile Candidates Search Affiliations • www.taforum.org/Members • Use full name and abbreviations • (Investment Management Consult
Slide 10: Finding High Profile Candidates: Steps One and Two
Finding High Profile Candidates Step One “Investment Management Consultants Association” OR (IMCA AND (investment OR consultant OR IM)) Finding High Profile Candidates Step Two (“is a member” OR “is Chair” OR “is a fellow”) “Investment Management Consultants Association” OR (IMCA AND (investment OR
Slide 11: Step 3 and X-Ray Site Search
Finding High Profile Candidates Step 3 (“is a member” OR “is Chair” OR “is a fellow”) (“Investment Management Consultants Association” OR (IMCA AND (investment OR consultant OR IM)) “hedge funds” 164 Finding Details X-Ray Site Search • site:website.com “words I want” eg. site:imca.org "merrill lynch
Slide 12: Finding Resumes and Biographies
Finding Details Finding Resumes and Biographies (intitle:resume OR intitle:CV OR intitle:vitae OR intitle:biography OR intitle:profile) “Investment Management Consultant” –submit –apply –jobs –sample Finding Details • Finding lists of emails • Need to know the format a company uses •(filetype:xls OR
Slide 13: FileFinder Staff List Example
FileFinder Voyager as ~ Staff List ~~ [2 INTEGRA CONTACT NUMBERS TEL FA NAME POSITION EXT:| NUMBER | MOBILE 01296 07802 101296 |Alex Duthie Business Development Manager 688099 959696 688099 020 8850 07771 020 8850 Barbara Clegg Business Development Manager 9791 646688 9791 01908 07921 101908 / Dave
Slide 14: Finding Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Finding Details • Find email addresses and/or phone numbers on a company’s website (email | mailto | contact | phone) dell.com michael Finding Details “email * * companyname.com” • Keep the quotes but replace the company name with the actual website • “*@website.com” Validate the results on mailtest
Slide 15: Finding Details: Registrant and Attendee Lists
Finding Details Finding Details (intitle:registrant |inurl:registrant | intitle:attendee | inurl:attendee | intitle:member | inurl:member | intitle:speaker | inurl:speaker | intitle:participant | inurl:participant | intitle:officer | inurl:officer) (filetype:xls | filetype:pdf) telecommunications 14
Slide 16: Search for People by Name; Other Sites
Other Site Specific Searches Search for People by Name • LinkedIn • PIPL.com • Yasni.com • Kgbpeople.com • Peekyou.com • Others… Other Searches Other Sites • site:zoominfo.com “Royal Bank of Scotland" (VP OR "Vice President") 124 • site:spoke.com “Royal Bank of Scotland" (VP OR "Vice President") 194
Slide 17: Other Searches
Other Searches “i love ruby on rails” “* a risk manager at * * *” “* * is a software engineer at google” Other Searches • "email * * deloitte.com" -site:deloitte.com my -we –us • managed AROUND:3 "10..100 people" engineering (resume OR cv OR vitae) 16
Slide 18: Other Searches; LinkedIn Usage
FileFinder Other Searches @ DuckDuckGo Goodies Home | About | Goodies | !Bang | Privacy | FAQ | Set Home Page ‘For tecn goodtes (matn, programming, etc), check out our tech Cateutations eraes 3.430534 45 square root of nine Conversions “raph to kro suman 100usd in eur @ ut - tuturama Tami 4.30pm @ °
Slide 19: LinkedIn Search Basics
LinkedIn • www.linkedin.com • patent attorney 22,724 • “patent attorney” 12,677 • site:linkedin.com “patent attorney” 61,500 LinkedIn • site:linkedin.com/pub “keywords” • Target results by country – site:uk.linkedin.com/pub = UK – site:ca.linkedin.com/pub = Canada – site:www.linkedin.com/pub = US •
Slide 20: LinkedIn: Finding a Hidden Name
LinkedIn If no name is displayed, from Google, search for a line from their summary LinkedIn "Over 5 years of international extensive experience in constructing Call Center System through" site:ca.linkedin.com 19
Slide 21: LinkedIn: Share the Profile
LinkedIn Another method for finding a name…’Share’ the profile… LinkedIn Forward the profile to a friend, or a dummy account, and send a copy to yourself 20
Slide 22: LinkedIn: View the Profile
LinkedIn View the Profile LinkedIn The full name is now visible 21
Slide 23: LinkedIn: Email Fellow Group Members
LinkedIn You can see more details (and also send emails) to fellow group members • You can join up to 50* groups at one time • Join the Boolean Strings Group You can send a maximum of 3000 invitations on LinkedIn but you can accept as many connections as you want. LinkedIn Email to fellow group memb
Slide 24: LinkedIn: Copy Member ID
LinkedIn Method 2: Copy their i.d. LinkedIn Go to ‘My Connections’ and start a message to someone you know 23
Slide 25: LinkedIn: Paste Group Member ID
LinkedIn Paste the Group Member’s i.d. number over your connection’s i.d. …and the Group Member’s name will appear in the ‘To’ field LinkedIn – X-ray Groups 24
Slide 26: LinkedIn: X-ray Groups
LinkedIn • site:linkedin.com inurl:in | pub "logo * Ernst & Young Employees and Alumni" - inurl:dir LinkedIn 25
Slide 27: LinkedIn Boolean Search
LinkedIn All LinkedIn search fields support Boolean • E.g. job search for investment AND management AND consultant NOT financial • Use quotes e.g. people search for an “investment management consultant” • Be creative e.g. "responsible for installing and configuring" java LinkedIn • site:linkedin.com
Slide 28: LinkedIn People Search Screens
FileFinder Groups Jobs rople Search LinkedIn Inbox Companies More Reference Search _ Saved Searches dates? Post your Credit job on Linkedin. Mazen K. G2) People » |cltle:credit risk analyst country kuwait IT Business Consultant - Kuwait finance house and Banking Consultant Kuwait | Banking Senior Cr
Slide 29: X-ray LinkedIn for Email Addresses; Twitter
LinkedIn Xray LinkedIn to find Email Addresses • this only works if profile lists email – site:uk.linkedin.com (intitle:com | gmail.com | yahoo.com) “risk manager” london –inurl:dir Twitter • Twitter claims to have 200 million users • 750 tweets per second Pointless babble — 40% Conversational — 38%
Slide 30: Searching Twitter and Amazon
Twitter Searching Twitter • http://search.twitter.com/advanced • site:twitter.com inurl:twitter.com/*/statuses (credit risk analyst) • site:twitter.com “bio * * financial analyst” “location * London” Amazon Searching Other Sites site:amazon.com inurl:profile cpa (uk OR “united kingdom” OR london) 29
Slide 31: Facebook Friend Finder
Facebook Friend Finder • Send messages – with attachments! Facebook 30
Slide 32: Facebook Search; Further Reading
Facebook • site:facebook.com inurl:people “words you want” • site:facebook.com inurl:people programmer "ruby on rails“ • www.similarsitesearch.com Further Reading • http://searchengineland.com/upstart- duckduckgo-challenges-google-with-strong- privacy-cool-tools-quackpot-name- 62540?utm_source=feedb
Slide 33: Further Reading
Further Reading • http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2011/01/18- linkedin-apps-tools-and- resources/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_mediu m=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BooleanBlac kBelt+%28Boolean+Black+Belt%29 • http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2010/12/the- big-deal-about-bing-for-sourcing-and- recruiting/?ut