Instantly Searching Through 45 Million LinkedIn Profiles and Other Stories
Since I do sourcing using Social Media and give webinars on the subject, I use some tools and am in touch with many vendors that provide tools for these purposes. There are quite a few tools that 1) help you guess how to search, 2) go to various sources at the same time, including social networks, blogs, etc., 3) help organize, filter and sort through results you get. Some tools are more powerful than the other, or cover different functionality. Some of these tools are very useful.
What amazes me, however, is how some of these tools are marketed. I imagine that this attracts attention; however, some of these messages are questionable, to put it mildly...
I got a call a few days ago from someone who has a sourcing product that "can access all of the 45 million profiles on LinkedIn" via a search on Google. Here is the message I got:
My business partner and I invented a software that is a 1 of a kind passive candidate sourcing tool. This is not a web crawler that grabs resume off active job boards, those work great and might be great for you as well, I'm not sure how you do your sourcing. However, if you are looking for passive and semi-passive candidates and would like to find a tool that gives you a snap shot into their backgrounds, their name, title, location and phone number, we can help. This is NOT for everyone.
We set up a demo. During the demo, when I mentioned that Google will not get more than 1,000 results at a time, the person said that she was not exactly sure how this was implemented... We didn't even talk about private profiles...
Other tools tell you that they use "metasearch algorithms" and that you do not need to know Boolean and will do just as well. Yet other tools are semantic which is "better than Boolean".
Really?
What has your experience been?
What amazes me, however, is how some of these tools are marketed. I imagine that this attracts attention; however, some of these messages are questionable, to put it mildly...
I got a call a few days ago from someone who has a sourcing product that "can access all of the 45 million profiles on LinkedIn" via a search on Google. Here is the message I got:
My business partner and I invented a software that is a 1 of a kind passive candidate sourcing tool. This is not a web crawler that grabs resume off active job boards, those work great and might be great for you as well, I'm not sure how you do your sourcing. However, if you are looking for passive and semi-passive candidates and would like to find a tool that gives you a snap shot into their backgrounds, their name, title, location and phone number, we can help. This is NOT for everyone.
We set up a demo. During the demo, when I mentioned that Google will not get more than 1,000 results at a time, the person said that she was not exactly sure how this was implemented... We didn't even talk about private profiles...
Other tools tell you that they use "metasearch algorithms" and that you do not need to know Boolean and will do just as well. Yet other tools are semantic which is "better than Boolean".
Really?
What has your experience been?
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