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Sourcing: Boolean, X-Ray, LinkedIn Search, 330+ Tools
7,927 students
Sourcing: Boolean, X-Ray, LinkedIn Search, 330+ Tools
Find suitable candidates: LinkedIn recruiter skills, recruitment search, recruiting outreach, AI prompts and search sets
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Take away 330+ tools in 34 downloadable lecture presentations: search strings, prompts, templates, procedures and checklists
- Copy 49 ready sets of Boolean, X-Ray and Google Dorks search strings for LinkedIn, GitHub, job sites and social networks
- See 143 sourcing services and apps on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: SeekOut, Hunter, ContactOut, RocketReach, Lusha and more
- Build a sourcing strategy and write Boolean and X-Ray queries that find passive candidates
- Find and verify candidate emails and phone numbers
- Write outreach messages and email sequences candidates answer, with ready templates
- Use AI for search and outreach with 36 ready prompts
- Automate sourcing with scrapers, bookmarklets, browser plugins and an ATS
- Search LinkedIn beyond its limits with filters, X-Ray and plugins
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
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Course content
9 sections • 36 lectures • 16h 10m total length
Requirements
- No prior sourcing experience required: every method comes with a search string or template you can copy
- Nothing to buy for the course itself: presentations are attached to the lectures
- Some services shown in the course have their own free plans, trials or paid plans
- Basic recruiting experience is helpful
- English at intermediate level or above
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
337 tools for sourcing in one course: 178 ready-to-use search strings, templates, prompts, procedures and checklists, 143 sourcing services and apps shown on screen, plus 16 models and methods.
Open a lecture, copy the search string, run it on today's vacancy.
Why the same search finds the same people
Most recruiters search the same way: a job title in the LinkedIn search box. They see the same profiles as every competitor and message people who already have ten offers. The candidates you need are findable, but through other doors: operators, X-Ray, other platforms, and services that open contacts.
What changes after this course
You search with a method. You write queries with operators and know why a query fails. You look beyond LinkedIn: GitHub, job sites, social networks. You find and verify contacts. You write a first message that names what matters to the candidate. And you hand the routine to AI and automation tools.
What is inside: 337 tools, counted file by file
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool and every service inside is listed there by name.
- 34 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations
- 143 sourcing services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: SeekOut, hireEZ, Hunter, ContactOut, RocketReach, Lusha, Dux-Soup, Loxo
- 178 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 49 Boolean, X-Ray and Google Dorks search string sets
- 42 templates and sample documents: candidate search map, personalized candidate outreach email, LinkedIn x-ray search strings, LinkedIn Boolean query optimization
- 36 ready AI prompts: x-ray search generation, LinkedIn Boolean query formatting, candidate outreach creation and refinement, candidate sourcing channels
- 23 step-by-step procedures and workflows: sourcing query construction, iterative resume search, corporate email discovery and validation, candidate outreach split test
- 13 question lists and conversation scripts: sourcing hypothesis questions, recruitment referral conversation, candidate messenger conversation script, candidate outreach message sequence
- 11 checklists: hiring manager search intake, LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn sourcing automation setup, fake LinkedIn profile warning signs
- 3 scorecards, rubrics and scoring matrices: LinkedIn advanced search operator reference, competency rating scale, employer brand promotion matrix
- 1 other working tool
- 16 models and methods explained with examples: open-source intelligence, Google Custom Search Engine, reverse image search, web scraping
Where the tools are
- Sourcing core (3 sections, 188 tools). Boolean and X-Ray search, sourcing strategy, social networks and job sites, sourcing tools, contact search and outreach.
- AI recruiting (61 tools). Job ads, AI candidate search, personalized outreach and candidate evaluation.
- Sourcing automation (41 tools). Workflow, scraping, automated outreach, bookmarklets and ATS.
- LinkedIn search (67 tools). Profile, filters, Boolean searches, X-Ray and plugins.
- OSINT for sourcing (66 tools). Search strategy, Google operators and Dorks, people search and contact verification.
- Social media sourcing and candidate evaluation (44 tools). Sourcing on other platforms, competency interviews and evaluation.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
I met sourcing as a recruiter at Alfa-Bank in 2006, when Boolean and X-Ray search were just developing, and I closed about 500 vacancies there. At the STB television channel my team of 12 closed about 2,000 vacancies in four and a half years. I still test every claim myself: a search that promised 213,000 results turned out to have 305 when I scrolled to the last page. The tools in this course come from that practice.
How to use the course
Watch the first three sections in order to learn the core method. Then open the sections for your tasks: section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name, so you can go straight to the search string you need.
What is included
- 36 lectures across 9 sections, 16 hours
- 34 downloadable resources: lecture presentations
- 337 tools across the lessons, including 143 services and apps shown on screen
- A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Take one vacancy you are working on now. Open the X-Ray lecture, copy a search string, replace the job title and the location and run it. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Sourcers and recruiters who want to find candidates beyond job boards
- Recruiters moving into a dedicated sourcing role
- Recruitment leads building a sourcing function
- Agency recruiters and headhunters who need contacts fast
- HR generalists who hire for hard-to-fill roles