This document provides tips and strategies for passive sourcing on LinkedIn, Google, Twitter, and other social media platforms. It recommends using advanced search operators and keywords to find profiles and information. Some specific tips include searching by company and job title on LinkedIn instead of keywords, using "site:linkedin.com" on Google for a broader search, and setting up alerts on LinkedIn and Google. It also discusses finding profiles, resumes, documents and posts on other sites like Twitter, Facebook, Lanyrd and Plancast to expand passive sourcing efforts.
3. LinkedIn Tips
DO NOT search for keywords!
Search for:Company Name
Job Title
Full Boolean is supported Booleans are: AND,
OR, AND NOT
4. LinkedIn Hacks
GOOGLE It..
Site:linkedin.com search string
You will get more results on Google as compared to LinkedIn
advance search.
Advance Search:
Site:linkedin.com people you know at Company Title in Plano,
TX
Region Specific Search:
For USA:- site:linkedin.com
For India:- site: in.linkedin.com
Outside USA:- site:www.linkedin.com
6. Resumes on Google
Look for documents named resume
Using intitle: looks for words coded into the HTML
title field, frequently the name of the file
intitle:resume project manager -job you
Or saved in locations called resume
Using inurl:looks for words in the names of folders or
addresses where the file is located
inurl:resume project manager -job you
Using the tilda ~: -~cv project manager TX 73301..78799 -~jobs
7. Files/Docs on Google
Most Search Engines can find documents written in: MS
Word (doc), Adobe (pdf), Rich Text (rtf), Plain text (txt),
PowerPoint (ppt), Excel (xls), and others
Use filetype:to find only that kind of document
Resumes are frequently written in Word and Adobe
(filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf)
Useful information can be found in Excel and PowerPoint
(filetype:xls OR filetype:ppt)
8. Set Alerts
LinkedIn
Use save search option on LinkedIn for
weekly/Daily updates.
Google
To create alert emails go on
google.com/alerts
9. Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service
that enables users to send and read short 140-
character messages called "tweets".
Stats:
6,000 tweets are tweeted per second.
350,000 tweets sent per minute
500 million tweets per day
200 billion tweets per year
271 million monthly active users
10. Sourcing through Twitter
Search.twitter.com
This allows you to search the entire database
of Twitter.
Snapbird.org
You can and get all the tweets of a particular
account/person.
11. Google Search - Twitter
Searching on Google:
Site: twitter.com search string
Ex: searching for Project Managers
top 10 project managers on twitter
top 10..100 project managers on twitter
people to follow twitter project managers
12. Facebook
Sourcing profiles from Facebook:
Google it..
Site:facebook.com (candidates name)
(designation/location/company/education)
Ex:
Site:facebook.com (sumeet bhurewar) (recruiter)
(Pune, MH)
13. Tools helpful for Passive Sourcing
Events and Conferences:
Lanyrd.com :- You can search for people, meetings & conferences.
You can search for candidates from the attendance list.
Plancast.com :- Plancast is social event sharing site which allows
users to discover, plan, promote and celebrate events, etc.
Conferencehound.com :- Conference Hound is a global conference
discovery platform that facilitates information on conferences held
in cities across the US.
14. Socialmention.com :- Social Mention monitors
100+ social media properties directly
including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed,
YouTube, Digg, Google etc.
whois.sc :- You will get ownership info. with
the help of their blogs or websites IP address.
15. People Search
Peekyou.com/pipl.com :- Free people search engine allows you to
find and contact anyone online.
Yasni.com :- Find anyone on the internet with the world's largest
free people search.
Yatedo.com :- A mega people search engine.
Tineye.com :- Reverse image search engine. Give it an image and it
will tell you where the image appears on the web.
Peoplesmart.com / Spokeo.com :- Search by name, phone, email,
or address