A sensational headline by brainfooder
Marcel van der Meer but one which may in this case be
fully justified. Finding LinkedIn profiles via Google ‘X-ray’ is perhaps the quintessential sourcing technique and its curtailment will significantly impact the work of recruiters worldwide. As brainfooder
Irina Shamaeva also noted, this is bad news for
people aggregators, and anyone else doing data enrichment on people data. We’re going to get all the wise heads in sourcing together in a Brainfood Live to discus, so register
here. NB: it’s not all doom and gloom, change happens and the best recruiters always adapt. Brainfood
Jan Tegze with some workarounds in his
latest post on the topic.