1. Passive Sourcing
LinkedIn, Google, Twitter, etc.

2. LinkedIn Tips/Hacks

3. LinkedIn Tips
• DO NOT search for keywords!
• Search for:“Company Name”
• “Job Title”
• Full Boolean is supported Booleans are: AND,
OR, AND NOT

4. LinkedIn Hacks
GOOGLE It..
Site:linkedin.com “search string”
You will get more results on Google as compared to LinkedIn
advance search.
Advance Search:
Site:linkedin.com “people you know” at “Company” “Title” in “Plano,
TX”
Region Specific Search:
 For USA:- site:linkedin.com
 For India:- site: in.linkedin.com
 Outside USA:- site:www.linkedin.com

5. Sourcing through
Google.com

6. Resumes on Google
• Look for documents named “resume”
• Using intitle: looks for words coded into the HTML
“title” field, frequently the “name” of the file
– intitle:resume project manager -job –you
• Or saved in locations called “resume”
• Using inurl:looks for words in the names of folders or
addresses where the file is located
– inurl:resume project manager -job –you
• Using the tilda ~: -~cv “project manager” TX 73301..78799 -~jobs

7. Files/Docs on Google
• Most Search Engines can find documents written in: MS
Word (doc), Adobe (pdf), Rich Text (rtf), Plain text (txt),
PowerPoint (ppt), Excel (xls), and others
• Use filetype:to find only that kind of document
• Resumes are frequently written in Word and Adobe
(filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf)
• Useful information can be found in Excel and PowerPoint
(filetype:xls OR filetype:ppt)

8. Set Alerts
LinkedIn
• Use save search option on LinkedIn for
weekly/Daily updates.
Google
• To create alert emails – go on
google.com/alerts

9. Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service
that enables users to send and read short 140-
character messages called "tweets".
Stats:
• 6,000 tweets are tweeted per second.
• 350,000 tweets sent per minute
• 500 million tweets per day
• 200 billion tweets per year
• 271 million monthly active users

10. Sourcing through Twitter
Search.twitter.com
• This allows you to search the entire database
of Twitter.
Snapbird.org
• You can and get all the tweets of a particular
account/person.

11. Google Search - Twitter
Searching on Google:
• Site: twitter.com “search string”
Ex: searching for Project Managers
• “top 10 project managers” on twitter
• “top 10..100 project managers” on twitter
• “people to follow” twitter “project managers”

12. Facebook
Sourcing profiles from Facebook:
Google it..
• Site:facebook.com (candidates name)
(designation/location/company/education)
Ex:
• Site:facebook.com (sumeet bhurewar) (recruiter)
(Pune, MH)

13. Tools helpful for Passive Sourcing
Events and Conferences:
• Lanyrd.com :- You can search for people, meetings & conferences.
You can search for candidates from the attendance list.
• Plancast.com :- Plancast is social event sharing site which allows
users to discover, plan, promote and celebrate events, etc.
• Conferencehound.com :- Conference Hound is a global conference
discovery platform that facilitates information on conferences held
in cities across the US.

14. • Socialmention.com :- Social Mention monitors
100+ social media properties directly
including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed,
YouTube, Digg, Google etc.
• whois.sc :- You will get ownership info. with
the help of their blogs or websites IP address.

15. People Search
• Peekyou.com/pipl.com :- Free people search engine allows you to
find and contact anyone online.
• Yasni.com :- Find anyone on the internet with the world's largest
free people search.
• Yatedo.com :- A mega people search engine.
• Tineye.com :- Reverse image search engine. Give it an image and it
will tell you where the image appears on the web.
• Peoplesmart.com / Spokeo.com :- Search by name, phone, email,
or address

16. Thank You !
Q & A