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What your LinkedIn searches don't tell you
30 September 2026 · 10 min read
143,258 LinkedIn profiles analysed: 58% do not describe their current role, 20% describe no experience at all. Why your keywords keep surfacing the same candidates.
Anara · Paris
Map the market before the people
Anara is an independent search and sourcing practice in Paris, run by one person, Pierre-André Fortin. Twenty-five years of recruiting hard-to-find profiles in data, IT, engineering and supply chain, and a long habit of writing about how we search.
- Founded
- February 2018, Paris
- Practice
- Executive search, sourcing, training
- Territories
- Data · IT · Industry · Supply chain
- Market
- France, in French and English
01 · Latest writings 01 / 04
Writings
What gets written here
Long reads, no script, no sponsor. Sourcing, method, and the gap between what a profile declares and what a person actually does.
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Beyond the Profile, the Presence
20 May 2026 · 15 min read
LinkedIn is a self-reported directory. Behavioural sourcing — GitHub, Meetup, Stack Overflow — reads the traces where the profile says nothing.
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Market Mapping: Revealing Hidden Talent
8 December 2024 · 11 min read
Market mapping charts the ecosystem before you search for profiles — from 30 to 138 results on the same query. A 4-phase method.
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Google Scholar PSE – How it Works?
26 July 2022
How to source researchers on Google Scholar with Google Custom Search Engine? Advanced operators, examples and direct access to the PSE.
02 · One person, by design 02 / 04
The client talks to the person doing the search.
No team, no partner, no subcontractor: one person behind the firm, by structural choice. Trained in literature at the Sorbonne, then in human resources, Pierre-André started recruiting at the turn of the 2000s and spent eighteen years in several firms, on profiles that grew scarcer every year.
He founded Anara in February 2018 with a simple conviction: recruiting deserves better than algorithmic scoring. Independent since, without partners, outside funding or a growth agenda.
He has trained recruiters since 2010, in HR master's programmes, firms and companies: more than two thousand people so far. He has written more than forty long pieces on sourcing and recruiting, mostly in French.
03 · The method 03 / 04
Three profiles in four never declare themselves.
The best candidates are in post and silent. Finding them means reading signals, from what people declare to what they have demonstrably done, and mapping the market before approaching anyone.
Read the method → 04 · Talks and communities 04 / 04
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Sourcing Summit Europe
Eight keynotes since 2018
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Global Talent Acquisition Day, TruSourcing, TruTunis
Recurring invitations
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Co-founded in 2021 with Guillaume Alexandre. Free tools for sourcers, no ads, no monetisation
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Open Sourcer
In-person sourcing meetup in Paris, since 2025. In French
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Bar du Recrutement
An online round table every Friday morning since 2020. In French