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With the raising prices of LinkedIn subscriptions, and diminishing efficacy of InMails, many Recruite
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With the raising prices of LinkedIn subscriptions, and diminishing efficacy of InMails, many Recruiters are facing the need to get potential candidates’ direct contact information. On Recruiter-related Facebook groups, we are seeing new questions about the best methods and tools to find emails and phone numbers every day! From our experience Sourcing candidates for clients around the world, across many industries and functions, we’ve found (perhaps unsurprisingly) that there is no one universal tool or database that solves the contact-finding problem. Instead, we rely on a mix of tools, including Social List, Pipl, Hunter.io, Contactout, Nymeria, and Rocketreach, to name a few. However, strategic application of basic online research techniques is equally important. For example, simply Googling for a person’s name in conjunction with a detail we know or can presume to be correct about them (e.g., “gmail.com”, or that person’s company email domain) may reveal their contact details faster than using any of the tools above. In some cases, we can even use educated guesses to find the answers, as when constructing a work email address based on a common pattern for a company, then validating the guess using “mail testers” and social confirmation techniques. Our theme this week is the best methods for finding candidate’s contact details, and we’d love to hear your favorite tools and methods, as well. Drop us a line, or see “Feedback” below for more ways to join the conversation.
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Our online Sourcing classes provide the latest, up-to-date, in-depth info on Sourcing core concepts, best practices, tools, and advanced techniques. Our classes come with the materials for you to keep and one month of support on the topic covered. See our full list of upcoming classes here. |
Find Anyone's Contact Info Workshop
Coming up on March 13th (only 11 seats remaining). While there is no “silver bullet” for finding email addresses or phone numbers, there are many useful tips, tricks, and tools that will make this process easier for you. This interactive Sourcing Workshop provides a six-step methodology, covering best practices to find contact information for any prospect: email, phone numbers, and more.
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Become A Custom Search Engines Expert
Coming up on March 19th (with optional hands-on Workshop March 20th). This class breaks down the what, why, and how of Google Custom Search Engines for Recruitment. Our presentation will guide you through setting up simple yet useful Custom Search Engines, explain how to fully customize your search, and introduce you to advanced search operators, allowing you to search (the whole web!) for job titles, employers, locations, schools, and skills.
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Over on YouTube, we’re producing short videos answering reader questions and demonstrating neat Sourcing tricks. Click here for the full playlist, or check out our featured QotW below. |
Sourcing Certifications Question of the Week - Episode 7
With so many tools on the market for finding candidate contact info, how can you choose? There’s no one-size-fits-all answer, but we have some guidelines and selection criteria we’re happy to share in this week’s episode.
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Google Custom Search Engines provide new and exciting ways to produce precise, repeatable searches - including some features unavailable on Google.com.
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Contact Lists CSE
This week’s CSE looks for contacts lists in Excel files. The CSE is roughly equivalent to adding filetype:xlsx name title company e-mail to every search.
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An Email Marketing Company Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online
Thursday, March 7th - Did you hear about the latest big data breach? 763 million email addresses were exposed, according to Lily Hay Newman’s coverage on Wired. The story also provides details on what else was leaked along with the emails, how this stacks up against previous mass-leaks and includes expert analysis from Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned. If you haven’t already, by the way, go check out Troy’s service to see if your data was compromised in this or prior leaks!
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How to see someone's phone number on messenger
Tuesday, March 5th - Perhaps you’ve seen Facebook in the news recently, catching flak for allowing users’ phone numbers to be discovered? Quora user Jacob Candink shares step by step instructions on how to do so. The trick relies on Facebook Messenger’s search function and can be performed on any platform. By the way, if you’re concerned about others finding your phone number the same way, LifeHacker has some tips about keeping your number (mostly) private in this recent update.
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How To Find Email Address of any Domain With Email Hunter in 1 Minute
Tuesday, March 4th - The email lookup site Hunter.io does just one thing, and does it better than any other tool: provide a quick way to look up a company’s email domain, and see the most common pattern for email addresses at that domain. Award-winning social marketer Harsh Aggarwal shares his take on the best ways to use Hunter in this short but informative post.
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Free Webinar on Email Investigation Techniques
Tuesday, March 4th - Michael Bazzell of IntelTechniques announces a free webinar, sponsored by Pipl. Especially worth attending out if you’re curious how email data breaches can be used in Sourcing. Michael has also recently updated the web domain research tools on his site. Though WHOIS lookups are showing a lot less information post-GDPR, there’s still some value in them, and the IntelTechniques toolkit is worth checking out.
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Review of SwordFish Browser Extension - WizardSourcer
Saturday, March 2nd - Jonathan Kidder has a review for the new Swordfish browser extension. Swordfish (like Lusha and other tools) provides emails, phone numbers, and links to related social profiles while viewing a user’s profile on LinkedIn, Facebook, and a few other sites. However, they specifically market themselves as having mobile numbers for many prospects. (As it happens, Jonathan also reviewed Social List, including the new Contact Finder feature, this week - check that out here.)
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The death of the landline is harming investigative journalism
Monday, February 25th - Writing for the Inlander, a weekly news publication in Spokane, Washington, Daniel Walters shares how changing trends in phone usage affect investigative journalism. This is a story about news stories not written, due to the inability to source contact information, and Daniel’s challenges are ones that will sound familiar to many Recruiters and Sourcers as well.
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