The above questions was posted on the Australasian Researchers Network group on LinkedIn. I thought I’d write a little post about this because it seemed like this was a common problem especially for those looking for people in the not-so-mainstream cities. Long story short, this is the response I posted: “I did some investigating and there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to do it on LI, nor does there seem to...

  I ran into the issue of not being able to select any text from LinkedIn profiles a few weeks ago. The first thought that popped into my head was “they’re on to me”… but then I realised that it could just be a technical problem on my end so I decided to investigate. After doing a quick Google and ‘LinkedIn answers’ search on the issue I realised I wasn’t the only LinkedIn customer experiencing this problem. After...

  So here we are, it’s 2012 and Easter is already fast approaching. It’s only been three short months and there’s already so much that has happened. In the US there have been some major reshuffling in the sourcing space with some prominent sourcing leaders securing new positions and the fall out over at Arbita. Closer to home, we have not gone by without our own sourcing-gate (related) incident and since the new...

Irina Shamaeva has posted this easy to use (and frankly self explanatory) chart comparing  the different Boolean operators between the popular search engines. I’ve read reports that the Synonym (~) operator has been rendered obsolete as Google now enforces a synonym search for all their searches. However, I did a quick experiment to test out this theory… Using the following Boolean string, I first established my base...

Dear SourcingNinja, I read your article on a Sourcer’s Toolbelt and I noticed you mentioned using MindMaps to help with your sourcing. I recall using mindmapping back in the day for brainstorming and group work but how do you use it when sourcing? Cheers, Mapped Out   Hello Mapped, You’re right in that mind maps are not a new concept and that they are very useful for brainstorming and group work. For those of you who aren’t...

Following on from our ‘Finding Target Organisations’ series – Parts I and II. Our final article focuses on leveraging information from ‘People’. What’s the easiest way to verify information on the internet?… Pick up the phone and ask! The concept is simple enough but I know many sourcers who practically run away the second they hear the words “phone” or “call”. Why is this? Well, I think there’s an article...