Slides from the UK Recruiter Technology Showcase Event; Martin Lee - Sourcing from Unusual Places

1. Sourcing from
unusual(?) places.
Martin Lee
Director of Sourcing & Research
Social Media Search a Norman Broadbent PLC company.

2. A question for you. Name any
website where people ……
1. Give their contact information or a way of
messaging them.
2. Show their interests / expertise or opinion
3. Reveal what they do
4. Share their work
5. Show who they work with

7. http://www.search-im-info.com/
Allows you to search instant messaging sites

9. site:match.com "software engineer" london -massachusetts -
MA

13. Boolean strings give us Operators that allow
us to create search queries
site: Look within a specific site
ext: / filetype: Allows us to look for filetypes eg PDF, WORD, EXCEL
and even code
inurl: look within a website url i.e. inurl:cv.doc
intitle: look within title i.e intitle:”board members”

14. Looking within online
documents
"web developer" steve sarah mike liz email phone company ext:xls
ext:xls site:gov.uk "internal use only"