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Google Docs, Sheets and other tools that Google offers their users are very popular, free and millions use them every day. They are much more than a web-based variant on traditional desktop-based office suites, like Microsoft Office. Google Apps users may create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, sites or upload files on Google Drive. And users can share all these files and documents with other users. Some candidates also create resumes through Google Docs and share them with recruiters through public links. The links have a unique ID in the URL, a long string of codes. Every string is unique and cannot […]

This test was done during April 2017, and from that time a few things have happened. Many of these tools improve their databases, and Hiretual in particular did pretty good job in this area. However, the most important news was the update of the LinkedIn User Agreement. Right now it’s hard to predict how the sourcing tools will be affected by LinkedIn and new LinkedIn Terms of Service, but I don’t think many of these tools revealing contact information will be still with us. If you would like to succeed in sourcing, you need one important tool, which is your […]

As a recruiter or sourcer, you are x-raying the same sites over and over again, in all corners of the Internet, looking for new candidates or hidden resumes lost somewhere in the pile of data. Sometimes, is just really time consuming and you can also make a few errors when you are typing the Boolean strings into the search field. Sometimes Google tries to slow you down with its evil Captchas, just because they think that your fast pasting search string into their search field is just another hacker attack. 🙂 But, luckily, there is a simple solution regarding how you […]

How to search for someone using photo on Google.

I started creating these sourcing games for my team because it’s a great way to test their knowledge, refresh the sourcing methods they already know or help them discover new methods. If are they stuck on a level, this also gives me the opportunity to see what they must learn and also teach them something new that I know. And when they share with me how they solve a specific level, I also learn something new, because they often choose a way that is different from the one I had in mind when I created the level. These sourcing games became a […]