There are many ways to find people out there, but the free ones are always my favorite. Recently, I tried http://wink.com/ and at first thought it was just another search engine. But when I started to look at it in more depth, I realized that this site lets you find people by not only their name and location, but by their personal interests, groups they belong to, school they attended, and their career! With all the social media sites out there, more and more data is available on people and what they like to do, what they specialize in and where they are located. Wink searches those profiles and let’s you pull them together all in one place. They claim to search over 200 million on line profiles. Wink also has an option for a person to claim their profile and fill it in. It […] Continue reading
The Tool You HAVE To Be Using
GOOGLE. If you aren’t using Google to find candidates or client information, you have not only missed the boat, but the other people have gotten on the boat, gone on the trip, are home and unpacked. One command in particular is invaluable to finding people.   site:www.website.com “keyword†“keyword†(Did the lights brighten and music play as you read this?) This one command searches the website you enter for the keywords in quotes. If the site you use is LinkedIn, (site:www.linkedin.com “title†“locationâ€) you get profiles of people who aren’t in your network, may only have one or two connections, and are often not found anywhere else on the web. These people have been told by a friend “You should get on LinkedIn!†so they do and connect to that friend. That’s it. No effort put in, no network building, no nothing. But, a savvy […] Continue reading