September 5th to 8th & 12th to 14th (8 am to 9 AM PDT Each Day)

Seven-Day Sourcing Bootcamp with Irina Shamaeva

Join Master Sourcer Irina Shamaeva at our two-week, seven-day Sourcing Bootcamp for Recruiters. Learn the latest and most effective techniques for talent sourcing on LinkedIn, search engines, and social sites, as well as efficient ways to collect and manage sourced data. This course is suitable for talent professionals of all experience levels who want to enhance their skills and stay ahead in the constantly evolving field of talent sourcing.

Registration for the September Bootcamp is closed. Please use button below to register for January 2024.

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Welcome to the Sourcing Bootcamp - the ultimate course to master the art of talent sourcing. In this comprehensive course, you'll learn everything you need to know to find the best candidates efficiently and effectively. Let's dive in!

The September Bootcamp will meet on the following schedule:

Week 1

Tuesday, September 5th (8 to 9 AM Pacific Time) - Day 1 - Sourcing Fundamentals, Google, and Boolean
Wednesday, September 6th (8 to 9 AM Pacific Time) - Day 2 - Advanced Google & Demos
Thursday, September 7th (8 AM to 9 AM Pacific Time) - Day 3 - Expert X-Raying & Demos
Friday, September 8th (8 AM to 9 AM Pacific Time) - Day 4 - LinkedIn Boolean, Best Practices, and Operators

Week 2

Tuesday, September 12th (8 AM to 9 AM Pacific Time) - Day 5 - Advanced LinkedIn Cross-Referencing & X-Ray Techniques
Wednesday, September 13th (8 AM to 9 AM Pacific Time) - Day 6 - Productivity & Scraping Tools
Thursday, September 14th (8 AM to 9 AM Pacific Time) - Day 7 - AI Tools for Recruitment

Day 1 covers the fundamentals of Sourcing using Google and Boolean. Perfect your sourcing intake, refine searches, and use Boolean logic to build sourcing muscle.

Day 2 proceeds into more advanced Google usage, include image and other searches often overlooked in sourcing, including several live demostrations to help you visualize their applications.

Day 3 rounds out our Google coverage with a deep dive into X-Ray searching, again with multiple live examples.

On Day 4 you will learn to navigate LinkedIn's structure and search limitations, advanced operators for LinkedIn Recruiter, and more.

On Day 5 Irina continues her coverage of LinkedIn discussing dynamic searches for company employees and school alumni, identifying LinkedIn members from email addresses, and the best ways to take advantage of basic or business accounts. She will also cover using X-Ray searches to find content on LinkedIn that even Recruiter search can't find.

Day 6 provides a wealth of tools to speed up sourcing productivity, as well as a crash course on strategic use of web scraping for even more sourcing productivity gains. Use instant data scrapers to find candidates, and cross-reference to discover additional talent!

Finally, on Day 7, Irina provides a much-needed review of AI tools for recruitment: what they are, how they work, what they can (and cannot) do. Learn what you need to know about the rapidly evolving AI tools landscape and how you can take advantage of existing tools to supercharge your workflows.

Get ready to take your sourcing skills to the next level! Join the Sourcing Bootcamp now.

Day 1 - Sourcing Fundamentals, Google, and Boolean

Sourcing Intake

Intake Form
Interacting with the Hiring Manager

Start with Low-Hanging Fruit
Search on Google vs. Social Sites and Aggregators
Recommended Search Settings
Capitalization, Punctuation
Word Order

Change Word Order to Expand Results

Number of Results
"include omitted results"
Special Characters and Symbols
Quotation Marks
Numrange ..
Emoji Search
Your Location
Advanced Search Dialog

Set Language and Country

Viewing Cached Results
Captchas
Terminology
Google's Semantic Features
Control the Interpretation

Verbatim

Boolean Logic – OR, NOT
Google for Candidates: Complex Boolean Strings
The Main Search Concept

💡 "The Rule of Three"

"Open-Ended" vs. "Restrictive" Search on Google
Other Search Engines?
Resources
Recommended Intro Book
Google Tip Sheets

Day 2 - Advanced Googling, Images & Demos

The Full List of Google Operators
Main Google Operators:

site: (also called X-Raying)
intitle:
inurl:
filetype:

Proximity Search

Asterisk *
AROUND(N)

Operators before: and after:
Examples - Strings Combining Operators
Benefits of Repeating Keywords
Images

Search for Faces
Image Search Operators
Facebook Image Interpretation
Reverse Image Search Engines
Combine Reverse Image and X-Ray

Google for Research

Gather Intelligence via Google Job Search
Google Maps
Google Events

Lists of Companies or Schools
Operator Asterisk * for Email-Finding
Searching for Contact Lists

Day 3 - Expert X-Raying & Demos

How to Find Sample Profiles on a Social Site
Figure Out X-Ray Templates:

XING
StackOverflow
ResearchGate
Github
Facebook
Other Social Sites
File Storage and Shorteners
B2B Databases

The Least Understood Operator inanchor:
inanchor: Power in LinkedIn X-Ray

Day 4 - LinkedIn Boolean, Best Practices, and Operators

The Biggest Professional Data
Your Difference

Profile
Company Page
Opportunities

LinkedIn.com People Search

Selections
Text / Boolean Syntax

Incomplete Indexing
LinkedIn Search is All About Boolean (ORs, NOTs)
Hack: Eliminate LinkedIn Boolean Limitations
Use Instant Data Scraper to Collect Values for OR Statements
Use LinkedIn Boolean Builder to Generate OR Statements from Lists of Companies or Schools
Limitation – Commercial Use
LinkedIn Search Best Practices

Incorporate Discoveries Into Search

LinkedIn Structure & Search Limitations

People With Multiple Current Positions
Inflated Numbers

How to Include Associated Companies
First and Last Name Search
Company Search Is Not Boolean

Companies without Sizes
Explore Your Connections at Companies

Group, Event, and Job Searches Are Not Boolean

Who Knew? Job Search Insights

LinkedIn Messaging
"Hiring Managers" in LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR)
"Years Of" in Recruiter
Hidden Search Operators in LinkedIn Recruiter and Lite

Skills in LinkedIn Recruiter
Use the Operators to Find Unemployed
People without Years of Experience

Use "Add Candidate" to Lookup by Email in Recruiter
Import to Project in LIR

Format the CSV for Import
See Results in Pipeline

Cross-Referencing by Import Discovers Additional Talent

Day 5 - Advanced LinkedIn Cross-Referencing & X-Ray Techniques

Dynamic Search for

Company Employees
School Alumni

Boolean in LinkedIn Recruiter
Calculated Values
Identify LinkedIn Members from a List of Email Addresses
Scenarios:

Guess and Verify the Email
Work with Excel List
GitHub and LinkedIn

Find Contacts with SalesQL (Chrome Extension)

Bulk Upload

Non-Unique Identifiers - Names
Create an OR of First-Last Names
Example: LICSW Social Worker in WV
X-Ray LinkedIn on Google
Emoji Search 🙂
X-Ray for Members with Public Emails
X-Ray with AROUND(X)
Tip: X-Ray Diversity Search
X-Ray with a Custom Search Engine (CSE)
X-Ray for Company
What You Cannot Find on LinkedIn But Can with X-Ray
Basic or Business Account Advantages Summary
Demo Searches on LinkedIn

Day 6 - Productivity & Scraping Tools

People Aggregators ($$)

Aggregators: Good and Bad

Identify LinkedIn Members from a List of Email Addresses with SeekOut
Social List
CrunchBase
Indeed.com Resume Search

Boolean Search on Indeed
Search Operators

Shortcut Tool - Chrome "Search Engines"
Extensity
GlossaryTech
IP Address-Changing
Scrolling
Contact Finders
Email Campaigns with SalesHandy and MS Outlook
Best Messaging Practices
CSV and Excel Encoding Workaround
Split or Merge Excel Files
Boolean Builders
Talent Pipeline vs. Just-In-Time Sourcing
Multiple Page Scraping
Scraping Supports "Lazy" and Inexpensive Sourcing
Anti-Scraping Technologies
Search and Scrape Approach
Use Cases – Contact Lists
Use Case – User Profiles from Social Sites
Julia's Email Extractor Extension
Extract Emails from PDFs
Choosing a Scraper
Data Miner
Phantombuster
Use Case: X-Ray LinkedIn, Scrape, Mass-Enrich, Upload
Further Study

Day 7 - AI Tools for Recruiting

LinkedIn's Recruiter AI
ChatGPT

What It Does

Use Cases in Recruitment

Research the Market
Target Companies
Lists of Associations
Lists of Events
Degrees and Certifications
Relevant Terminology
Summarize a Job Description
Brainstorm with ChatGPT

Types of Conversation
Assigning a Role
Tone and Context
Insist on Improvements
Google vs. ChatGPT
Bing with ChatGPT Integration
Google Bard
Google Search Labs
Engage AI
AI Hallucinations

What's included?

Recordings of the live webinars, slides, tip sheets, and a Boolean Builder for LinkedIn searches
$100 discount toward the CPSP Exam
30-day online support guarantee

Class Outcomes

You will learn the latest and most effective techniques for talent sourcing on LinkedIn, search engines, and social sites, including the most efficient ways to collect and manage sourced data.

Who Will Benefit

Recruiters, Sourcers, and other Talent Acquisition professionals who source full-time or part-time and want to expand their knowledge, add new sourcing techniques to their repertoire, and get up-to-date on today's most effective sourcing methods. The course is suitable for recruiters or sourcers at any level.

Seven-Day Sourcing Bootcamp with Irina Shamaeva

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