All Discussions Tagged 'sourcing' - Boolean Strings Network2024-03-29T15:09:23Zhttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=sourcing&feed=yes&xn_auth=noOSLD Digital Passes Are Now Availabletag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2020-05-20:2748775:Topic:4324422020-05-20T17:25:36.463ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
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<p><br></br> Did you miss the Online Sourcing Learning Day on May 6th? (We got a <a href="https://booleanstrings.com/2020/05/21/osld-digital-pass/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">big international crowd and awesome reviews</a>.)</p>
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<p><br/> Did you miss the Online Sourcing Learning Day on May 6th? (We got a <a href="https://booleanstrings.com/2020/05/21/osld-digital-pass/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">big international crowd and awesome reviews</a>.)</p>
<p>Good news! You can now <a href="https://onlinesourcinglearningday.com/">order a "digital pass"</a> which provides access to six (6) hours of recordings and sets of slides from seven international Master Sourcers, delivered with love, here -</p>
<p>-> <strong><a href="https://onlinesourcinglearningday.com/">https://onlinesourcinglearningday.com</a></strong> <-</p>
<p>- it is available to those who couldn't attend the event live. (Yes, you can keep the slides and recordings.)</p>
<p><br/> All the speakers are sourcing practitioners; our topics cover both concepts and hands-on techniques. Together, the diverse presentations would improve your future experience and outcome sourcing. But expect to review the material since it is packed with info and things to practice! </p>
<p>We have made the materials affordable. I won't know of any other training with an ROI as high as OSLD's.</p>
<p>(If you attended on May 6th, please feel free to share your feedback in the comments).</p>
<p><br/> Sincerely,<br/> On behalf of the <a href="https://onlinesourcinglearningday.com/#speakers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OSLD Team</a>, </p>
<p>Irina Shamaeva<br/> <a href="mailto:team@onlinesourcinglearningday.com">team@onlinesourcinglearningday.com</a><br/> P.S. And yes, we plan to repeat OSLD with different content, stay tuned!</p>
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<p>I am in the process of researching company sourcing models, is anyone willing to share their model with me? Including their definition of what a sourcer is at their company - </p>
<p>I am in the process of researching company sourcing models, is anyone willing to share their model with me? Including their definition of what a sourcer is at their company - </p> Sample Sourcing Certification Exam Questionstag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2014-09-11:2748775:Topic:1287852014-09-11T16:12:33.929ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/certification.png"><img alt="certification" class="aligncenter wp-image-8997" height="274" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/certification.png" width="382"></img></a></p>
<p>Are you interested in getting certified?</p>
<p>Our - substantially reworked and improved in 2014 - <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/" target="_blank">Sourcing Certification Program</a> now offers to take <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/exam-registration/" target="_blank">the Exam and Getting Certified</a> independently of signing up for subscription to the interactive…</p>
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/certification.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8997" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/certification.png" alt="certification" width="382" height="274"/></a></p>
<p>Are you interested in getting certified?</p>
<p>Our - substantially reworked and improved in 2014 - <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/" target="_blank">Sourcing Certification Program</a> now offers to take <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/exam-registration/" target="_blank">the Exam and Getting Certified</a> independently of signing up for subscription to the interactive materials, as we have called them, "<a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/guidebook-registration/" target="_blank">The SourceBook</a>".</p>
<p>You would definitely be well prepared if you <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/guidebook-registration/" target="_blank">subscribe to the material</a>. But if you feel ready and confident, you can give the Exam a try and become Certified. <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/exam-registration/" target="_blank">The Exams are offered monthly</a>, at the end of each month. The next round is coming up at the end of August 2014, and we already have quite a few folks signed up for it.</p>
<p>For those who are curious, here are a few sample Exam questions. Please note: no answers will be provided to these; of course, you are welcome to compare the notes in the comments. The questions are not too difficult, but you'd need t do a bit of research for each one. The Exam has 60 questions to answer.</p>
<p>Q1) For the person whose work phone number is 413-794-3248, what is her work email address?</p>
<p>Q2) Find a page on the <em>High Country Fusion Company</em> website, listing the company's Australia staff. One of the people listed on the page does <em>not</em> have a LinkedIn account. What is the last name of that person?</p>
<p>Q3) One of the Engineering staff listed in this <a href="http://northernreliability.com/staff-directory/" target="_blank">Directory</a> has a work phone number publicly shared on his LinkedIn profile. What is that number?</p>
<p>Q4) The site <a href="http://doleta.gov">http://doleta.gov</a> has an Excel file (the xlsx type) that contains a long list of professionals with the names, company names, titles, emails, phone numbers, and addresses. How many records does the list have?</p>
<p><span>Q5) Complete the search string by replacing the ??? by a word, to create a Google search for profiles of members of Florida Direct Marketing Association:</span></p>
<p><em>site:fdma.org/???</em></p>
<p>Q6) Which of the following search strings on Google will find not only the pages with the word <em>Programmer, </em>but also some pages with of its synonyms?</p>
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<li><em>Programmer</em></li>
<li><em>~Programmer</em></li>
<li><em>Programmer OR Developer OR Engineer</em></li>
<li>Any one of the above will work</li>
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<p>That's it for now! Additionally, you can <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/test-yourself/" target="_blank">test your Sourcing knowledge on the site</a> and get a response from an auto-checker.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>New! >>></strong></span><span> If you would like to get a good-sized introduction to the Program, sign up for the webinar<span style="color: #800000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcing-intro/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;">Introduction to Sourcing</span></a>,</strong></span><span> coming up on Tuesday September 16, 2014; it covers the Sourcing Guidebook material - at least as much as can be packed into 90 minutes!</span></p> What Google Can't Findtag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2014-08-19:2748775:Topic:1275772014-08-19T16:18:55.771ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><em>(This post is about what Google can't find, with Australia- and NZ- based examples. It should be useful for everyone, no matter where they live.)</em></p>
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<p>At the recent Sourcing Summits NZ and Australia I asked the audience to name some cases where web pages would not be found by Google. Examples provided included: "some people are not online" (at all!) and "if I am logged in to my bank, I hope Google doesn't find this info".</p>
<p>Further, we agreed, that if anyone…</p>
<p><em>(This post is about what Google can't find, with Australia- and NZ- based examples. It should be useful for everyone, no matter where they live.)</em></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-9023" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Vertical-googlebot.jpg" alt="Vertical-googlebot" width="199" height="161"/></p>
<p>At the recent Sourcing Summits NZ and Australia I asked the audience to name some cases where web pages would not be found by Google. Examples provided included: "some people are not online" (at all!) and "if I am logged in to my bank, I hope Google doesn't find this info".</p>
<p>Further, we agreed, that if anyone is logged-in to a member site (whether paid or not), then the pages seen by that individual contain "inside" data, often personalized to the member, and therefore, in most cases, cannot be found by Google.</p>
<p>Another example brought up was "a page with search results", using a search engine, or using any site providing search. Those results are pulled onto one page just for us to look at them that once. The pages with search results are usually short-lived; Google will not find them.</p>
<p>There are a few more general categories of web pages, that Google will not find, not covered by the above. One case to remember is that webmasters can tell Google to stay away from some pages. Websites can prevent Google from indexing portions of the sites, by providing directives in the file named <em>robots.txt</em>. Google will respect the rules.</p>
<p>It's not true that Google can find "most of it" either (as someone said they'd hope). Here's what the big picture looks like:</p>
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Deep-Web1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9015" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Deep-Web1.jpg" alt="The-Deep-Web1" width="480" height="341"/></a></p>
<p>(By the way saying <em>"Deep Web search on Google"</em>, an expression I heard from an American colleague -who also claimed good skills in that - is not right. <em>Deep Web</em> is, by definition, what Google <em>can't</em> find.)</p>
<p><em>Of course,</em> Google finds LOTS and is worth extensively using for research.</p>
<p>It's important, however, to straighten the expectations about what can be found and what can't. Here's a specific case that may not be clear upfront. Even if you do <em>not</em> have to log into a site - <em>some</em> of the site's pages, dynamically created in response to a search, or, more generally, pages, pulling out from a database and including some info "dynamically", just to show the page, may not be found by Google.</p>
<p>EXAMPLE</p>
<p>As an example, let's consider <a href="http://www.membershipcentre.rcsa.com.au/RCSAWebGen/Company_Listing.aspx" target="_blank">a search for corporate members on the Recruitment Association RCSA</a></p>
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rcsa-search.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-9018" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rcsa-search.jpg" alt="rcsa-search" width="350" height="191"/></a></p>
<p>Sure enough, the page depicted above is "constructed dynamically" - and will not be found by Google.</p>
<p>Let's also look at one of the results:</p>
<p><a href="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rcsa-search-result.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-9019" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rcsa-search-result.jpg" alt="rcsa-search-result" width="409" height="205"/></a></p>
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<p>This page, while being "just" a listing page for a member, cannot be found by Google either! None of the four member listing pages found in the search above, can be found by Google. If you are in doubt, you can try searching for them: <em><a target="_blank">site:membershipcentre.rcsa.com.au "absoluteit.co.nz"</a></em></p>
<p>Generally, if you see a question mark <em>?</em> in a page's URL, like for the page above, chances are split in terms of Google finding the page. It may, it may not; it depends. (We'll go into investigating a bit deeper in a future post.)</p>
<p>The moral of the story is:<em> if</em> it's not straightforward whether a site can be "fully" X-Rayed for content, it is always a good idea to <em>try searching both by X-Raying and "internally"</em>. You might be finding more results by combining both ways. In the RCSA example above, internal searches will provide about 98% listings that X-Ray won't.</p>
<p>For an in-depth <em>Sourcing Methodologies</em> study and specific Australia- and NZ-based examples to illustrate and work with, please check out my upcoming <strong><a href="http://booleanstrings.ning.com/events/sourcing-methodologies-australia-new-zealand-edition" target="_blank">Webinar</a></strong> (Aug 26, 2014).</p> Sourcing Contest #SourcingSolvedtag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2014-01-29:2748775:Topic:1172712014-01-29T02:20:17.182ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>The Winter Sourcing Contest "SourcingSolved" is up! ("quiz" style, 8+1 questions), </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html">http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html</a></strong></p>
<p>Get famous and earn substantial prizes, to help you to source and to search even better.</p>
<p><strong>Deadline:</strong> Friday January 31, 2014</p>
<p>Please share! :)</p>
<p>The Winter Sourcing Contest "SourcingSolved" is up! ("quiz" style, 8+1 questions), </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html">http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html</a></strong></p>
<p>Get famous and earn substantial prizes, to help you to source and to search even better.</p>
<p><strong>Deadline:</strong> Friday January 31, 2014</p>
<p>Please share! :)</p> Tracking Profile Changestag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2013-09-26:2748775:Topic:1114512013-09-26T06:08:28.078ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>Following up on the post <a href="http://www.musingsfromsussex.com/2013/09/18/monitoring-companies-staff-leave/" target="_blank">Monitoring companies for staff who leave</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/James_Mayes" target="_blank">James Mayes</a> and <a href="http://linkedintobusiness.com/What-Will-Replace-Linkedin-Signal--i-266.asp" target="_blank">What Will Replace Linkedin Signal?</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/linkedinexpert" target="_blank">Viveka von Rosen</a>, I'd like to…</p>
<p>Following up on the post <a href="http://www.musingsfromsussex.com/2013/09/18/monitoring-companies-staff-leave/" target="_blank">Monitoring companies for staff who leave</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/James_Mayes" target="_blank">James Mayes</a> and <a href="http://linkedintobusiness.com/What-Will-Replace-Linkedin-Signal--i-266.asp" target="_blank">What Will Replace Linkedin Signal?</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/linkedinexpert" target="_blank">Viveka von Rosen</a>, I'd like to point to ways to track LinkedIn profile changes, using Google.</p>
<p>Sure enough, LinkedIn has profiles, Google has pages, and telling Google how to look for specific information on profiles involves some cryptic Boolean syntax. But we have done it, and some things can be done quite easily.</p>
<p>The approach explained in an example below can be expanded and modified to track quite a few things.</p>
<p>Let's take a look at this search:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.linkedin.com+"2..200+people+have+recommended"+"registered+nurse"+Texas" target="_blank"><em><strong>site:www.linkedin.com "2..200 people have recommended"</strong> "registered nurse" Texas</em></a></p>
<p> (add your own keyword variations to the part in bold).</p>
<p>This is a search for people with anywhere from 2 to 200 recommendations. The added keywords narrow it down. (I do not mean that the above is "the" way to search for RN's in TX, but it is a very good place to start.)</p>
<p>Now, in the Google search dialog, let's select the "search tools", narrow it down to the past month, and sort by date:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5500" title="signal-like" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/signal-like1.jpg" alt="" width="426" height="379"/></p>
<p>When we <em>sort by date</em>, we see the results, that have recently been indexed by Google and got new information around the search terms. In our case, we find the profiles of the people who have, most likely, requested and added recommendations to their LinkedIn profiles. These professionals <em>may be</em> open to new opportunities.</p>
<p>Setting a <a href="http://www.google.com/alerts" target="_blank">Google alert</a> with that search above is likely to inform us of the profiles where the number of the recommendations has shifted.</p>
<p>This doesn't provide a perfect way to track profile changes for a number of reasons. Though Google is very fast, it may take it some time to come to a profile for re-indexing. Though the majority of LinkedIn members keep public profiles, which is the default, some people may manually adjust what is visible. If we wanted to view perfect results with the RN's in Texas and nobody else (which I usually don't worry too much about; nothing is wrong having false positives as long as it is easy to ignore them), we may want to make a few changes to the search. Some people may get recommendations without having any plans to move. <em>However,</em> this is an excellent way to find or be notified about these changes and it can be fruitful to go over the results. </p>
<p>This search can be modified to see if a specific company has few or has many employees that are getting new recommendations, perhaps thinking of moving. This can be used as a CI (Competitive Intelligence) tool.</p>
<p>Try this, for example:</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/192gich" target="_blank"><em>site:www.linkedin.com "2..200 people have recommended" "at zynga"</em></a></p>
<p>Now, here is <em>your</em> turn to design some other Google alerts tracking profile changes. </p>
<p>If you would like to learn to source like a pro and master multiple tricks like the one above, sign up for the last round of the <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com" target="_blank">People Sourcing Certification Program</a>, coming up shortly to the Internet near you. </p> LinkedIn Contacts Have Just Doubled For Youtag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2013-06-13:2748775:Topic:1054772013-06-13T17:13:59.243ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>The new <a href="http://contacts.linkedin.com/" target="_blank">LinkedIn Contacts</a> feature is <a href="http://w3recruitment.com/2013/06/11/linkedin-contacts-cool-feature/" target="_blank">buggy</a> but it's opening up incredible people sourcing possibilities.</p>
<p>The terminology "contacts" and "connections" may be somewhat confusing. The all-new <em>LinkedIn Contacts</em> system allows LinkedIn members to merge the information about their contacts on several systems: 1) LinkedIn…</p>
<p>The new <a href="http://contacts.linkedin.com/" target="_blank">LinkedIn Contacts</a> feature is <a href="http://w3recruitment.com/2013/06/11/linkedin-contacts-cool-feature/" target="_blank">buggy</a> but it's opening up incredible people sourcing possibilities.</p>
<p>The terminology "contacts" and "connections" may be somewhat confusing. The all-new <em>LinkedIn Contacts</em> system allows LinkedIn members to merge the information about their contacts on several systems: 1) LinkedIn itself, 2) Gmail, 3) Yahoo mail, 4) Outlook, and several more sources.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5103" title="contacts" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/contacts.jpg" alt="" width="416" height="216"/></p>
<p>Here's why this is cool:</p>
<p><span>1. You could create a Gmail account just for adding lists of people, therefore effectively merging </span><em>any</em><span> lists (being, for example, lists of a professional association members you'd locate on the web, or lists of people you find in Jigsaw or Zoominfo) with the member data on LinkedIn, no matter what your personal network is like. The merge is done using email addresses as the unique identifiers.</span><span><br/></span></p>
<p><span><span>2. For people whom you add from a different account, such as Google/Gmail, LinkedIn creates a </span></span><span>LinkedIn</span><span><span>-alike "profile", if it can't merge the imported data with its own. Therefore it creates <em>uniformity</em> of the presentation of professional profiles for people, no matter inside or outside of </span>LinkedIn,<em><span> for you, </span></em><span>as in this screenshot below. </span></span></p>
<p><span>This is not a member profile, but the profile of a contact I have added, who is not present on LinkedIn, or at least is not registered on LinkedIn with the given email address:</span><span><br/></span><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5104" title="google contact" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/added.jpg" alt="" width="443" height="209"/><span>3. Here's the </span><em>coolest</em><span> part. You can now <em>search</em> across groups of people who have been merged as external lists, on their names, titles, companies, and locations. This is a capability that has been implemented in the (cool but expensive) <a href="http://talent.linkedin.com/talentpipeline/" target="_blank">Talent Pipeline</a> a while ago.</span></p>
<p><span>Here is what this search may look like. The colored "in" icons point to my connections, the grayed out "in" icons point to people with whom I am not connected. The search results will show all the matching LinkedIn profiles, even for people outside of my network, as long as there was an email address match while merging.</span></p>
<p><span>The search is done across all of the Google-added people, but the search facets are applied to the LinkedIn data.</span><span><br/></span><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5105" title="search" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/search.jpg" alt="" width="565" height="244"/></p>
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<p>Here is an example of how this may be used.</p>
<p><em>Step 1.</em> Clear out your gmail-merged contacts if you have any.</p>
<p><em>Step 2.</em> Locate a list of people (say, get a list of members of a professional association). Names and email addresses is enough information to start with. Actually, even the names are not that necessary.</p>
<p><em>Step 3.</em> Upload the list to a gmail account.</p>
<p><em>Step 4.</em> Merge/connect the gmail account using the new Contacts</p>
<p><em>Now</em> you can search across this list of people<em> in terms of their LinkedIn data</em>: where they live, which companies they currently work for, and which job titles they have. To search, you would need to use "Google contacts" as the "Source", as in the screenshot above. The search itself <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2013/06/10/amazing-search-for-symbols-in-the-new-contacts/" target="_blank">is quite different from before</a>.</p>
<p><strong>WOW.</strong> This is incredible - and available for free, with any LinkedIn account.</p>
<p>If you try this out, get ready to be patient. There are numerous bugs. All the numbers shown are wrong, and there's lots more to complain about.</p>
<p>The less powerful but also quite wonderful <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2010/06/20/reliable-email-address-verification/">upload-to-invite functionality</a> that has served <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/" target="_blank">us</a> for years is mostly broken now.</p>
<p>But this stuff is better.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p> Contest Announcement - Win a Free Seat in the People Sourcing Certification Program!tag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2013-05-13:2748775:Topic:1037552013-05-13T20:59:06.275ZDave Galleyhttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/DG
<p>Hey Sourcing Community!</p>
<p>We are giving away TWO free seats (one Level 1 seat, and one Level 2 seat) for the People Sourcing Certification Program (<a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/">http://sourcingcertification.com/</a>).</p>
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<p>Two lucky winners will be randomly selected from the top 10 people who score the most points.</p>
<p>Here is how you can earn points:</p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1 Point - Share/+1 the Program event on Google Plus - …</span></li>
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<p>Hey Sourcing Community!</p>
<p>We are giving away TWO free seats (one Level 1 seat, and one Level 2 seat) for the People Sourcing Certification Program (<a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/">http://sourcingcertification.com/</a>).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Two lucky winners will be randomly selected from the top 10 people who score the most points.</p>
<p>Here is how you can earn points:</p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1 Point - Share/+1 the Program event on Google Plus - </span><a href="http://bit.ly/GPlus-CPSP" style="font-size: 13px;">http://bit.ly/GPlus-CPSP</a></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1 Point - Share/Like the Program event on Facebook - </span><a href="http://bit.ly/Facebook-CPSP" style="font-size: 13px;">http://bit.ly/Facebook-CPSP</a></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1 Point - Share the Program event on LinkedIn (as a status update and on relevant groups) - </span><a href="http://bit.ly/LinkedIn-CPSP" style="font-size: 13px;">http://bit.ly/LinkedIn-CPSP</a></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1 Point – Tweet about the Certification Program on Twitter; use hashtag #CPSP and #CPSP2013 and include a link to <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com">http://sourcingcertification.com</a>. Example:</span></li>
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<p><i>I would love to be included in the next round of People Sourcing Certification Program <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/">sourcingcertification.com</a> #CPSP2013</i></p>
<p>(Multiple tweets are allowed!)</p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1 Point - Follow our Company page on LinkedIn (</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/people-sourcing-certifications" style="font-size: 13px;">https://www.linkedin.com/company/people-sourcing-certifications</a><span style="font-size: 13px;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1 Point - Like our Facebook page (</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SourcingCertifications" style="font-size: 13px;">https://www.facebook.com/SourcingCertifications</a><span style="font-size: 13px;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1 Point - +1 our Google Plus page (</span><a href="https://plus.google.com/105964312258773989203/" style="font-size: 13px;">https://plus.google.com/105964312258773989203/</a><span style="font-size: 13px;">)</span></li>
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<p><strong>Extra Points</strong></p>
<p>1) We will award one bonus point for everyone who registers for the May 21st Info Session (<a href="http://bit.ly/CPSP-MayInfoSession">http://bit.ly/CPSP-MayInfoSession</a>), <em>and lists YOUR name in the "Who referred you?" field</em>. This is a great way to outpace the competition. Refer 100 people to attend the Info event and you get 100 points.</p>
<p>2) Answer this “Level 1” Question for 10 points - in what year did the Google home page look like this?</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800638985?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800638985?profile=original" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p>3) Answer this “Level 2” Question for 15 points - where was this picture taken (hint - North America)?</p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800640198?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="600" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800640198?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="600" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p>The deadline for all entries is Noon PDT on Monday, May 27th.</p>
<p>To register an entry, please email your scores and answers to the above questions to <a href="mailto:david@sourcingcertification.com">david@sourcingcertification.com</a> , subject "CPSP Contest" prior to the deadline.</p>
<p>Any questions, please contact George at <a href="mailto:george@sourcingcertification.com">george@sourcingcertification.com</a></p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p> </p> Results of the Sourcing Tools Survey in the First 2 Daystag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2013-03-27:2748775:Topic:1012982013-03-27T16:18:49.486ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">These are preliminary, mid-way, results of the Sourcing Tools Survey</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">In the first two days of the <strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey_intro" target="_blank">Sourcing Tools Survey.</a></strong> we've had 450+ people enter their responses. Are you curious to see what what kind of statistics we are getting? Here are some initial partial results…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">These are preliminary, mid-way, results of the Sourcing Tools Survey</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">In the first two days of the <strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey_intro" target="_blank">Sourcing Tools Survey.</a></strong> we've had 450+ people enter their responses. Are you curious to see what what kind of statistics we are getting? Here are some initial partial results (below).</span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13px; color: #008000;">Would you like to receive the full final report?</span></strong></span><ul>
<li><span class="font-size-4"><strong style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey.html" target="_blank">Add your sourcing tools survey responses NOW!</a></strong></span></li>
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<li><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13px; color: #008000;">Want to get wide statistics?</span></strong></span><ul>
<li><span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color: #008000;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Share the Intro page with your colleagues</span>: </span></strong><span class="font-size-2"><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey_intro">http://sourcingcertification.com/survey_intro</a></strong></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #008000; font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong> </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800638403?profile=original" width="701" style="padding: 1px;"/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800638619?profile=original" width="590" style="padding: 1px;"/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey.html" target="_blank">Participate in the survey NOW to receive the full results!</a></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800638657?profile=original" width="587"/></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800638668?profile=original" width="603"/></strong></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800638909?profile=original" width="549" style="padding: 1px;"/></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span><font face="verdana, geneva">Interesting</font>, isn't it? <strong style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey.html" target="_blank">Participate in the survey NOW to receive the full results!</a></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><strong><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800638851?profile=original" width="603"/></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800641360?profile=original" width="732" style="padding: 1px;"/></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><strong><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800641404?profile=original" width="531"/></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800641439?profile=original" width="611" style="padding: 1px;"/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800643738?profile=original" width="681"/></a></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey.html" target="_blank"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800643880?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/>Enter your responses NOW to receive the FULL FINAL results!</a></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800646143?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" style="padding: 1px;"/></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800646367?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" style="padding: 1px;"/></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey.html" target="_blank">Enter your responses NOW to receive the FULL FINAL results!</a></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">Please share the Intro page with your friends and colleagues<strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>: <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/survey_intro">http://sourcingcertification.com/survey_intro</a></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
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<p></p> Last Chance! Three People Sourcing Webinars in 2012tag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2012-12-03:2748775:Topic:954932012-12-03T17:04:46.511ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>Hello everyone!</p>
<p>Check out three People Sourcing Webinars coming up shortly. All the webinars are recorded, and those who sign up will get the recording, the slides, and one month of support over email. If you sign up for two or three, your support time doubles or triples.</p>
<p>You can check the time in your timezone at the registration link. Space is limited.<br></br> <strong>Google-Based People Sourcing – December 5 </strong></p>
<p>The webinar offers a detailed, up-to-date overview of…</p>
<p>Hello everyone!</p>
<p>Check out three People Sourcing Webinars coming up shortly. All the webinars are recorded, and those who sign up will get the recording, the slides, and one month of support over email. If you sign up for two or three, your support time doubles or triples.</p>
<p>You can check the time in your timezone at the registration link. Space is limited.<br/> <strong>Google-Based People Sourcing – December 5 </strong></p>
<p>The webinar offers a detailed, up-to-date overview of the Google Search Engine, including basic, intermediate, and (some) advanced tips and tricks, and a review of new and unannounced changes. It is a good introduction for a beginner as well as a good refresher for someone with experience.<br/> <a target="blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2%2Egotomeeting%2Ecom%2Fregister%2F679923674&urlhash=9QoV&_t=tracking_anet" rel="nofollow">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/679923674</a> <br/> <br/> <strong>Google-Plus for People Sourcing – December 6 </strong></p>
<p>Google-Plus presents excellent tools for searching, sourcing, and reaching out, and it's time to master them. Let the Facebook numbers or Pinterest or Instagram hype not fool you; Google-Plus is the second top place on the Internet to figure out, if you are looking for professionals, after LinkedIn. Sharing some unusual and unpublished tips.SOme basics of Google search is necessary to benefit from this webinar.</p>
<p><a target="blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2%2Egotomeeting%2Ecom%2Fregister%2F604855658&urlhash=be6o&_t=tracking_anet" rel="nofollow">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/604855658</a> <br/> <br/> <strong>Boolean Search on LinkedIn – December 11 </strong></p>
<p>This is a repeat of a twice-sold out webinar. This webinar is for those who use LinkedIn to search for people and want to expand their toolkit and understand the advantages and the limitations of a variety of ways of searching LinkedIn for talent.</p>
<p><a target="blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2%2Egotomeeting%2Ecom%2Fregister%2F740419442&urlhash=v8bs&_t=tracking_anet" rel="nofollow">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/740419442</a> </p>
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<p>Sign-up questions? Please contact George Glikman at George@sourcingcertification.com / 510-384-8262 PST</p>
<p>Questions about the content? Please contact me at Irina@sourcingcertification.com / 510-233-9493 PST</p>
<p><strong>Space is limited.</strong></p>
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