Archive for December, 2008
Semantic Search for Sourcers and Recruiters, Round 2
Looking at my blog stats, it appears I may have struck a nerve when I wrote a post on semantic search for sourcers and recruiters on Monday, December 29th, explaining the concepts of semantic search with regard to how it can be leveraged effectively by sourcers and recruiters.
I received several questions, comments, and inquiries for more information on the subject. If [...]
Semantic Search for Sourcers and Recruiters
On Tuesday, December 23, 2008 I wrote a “Tutorial Tuesday” post on www.recruitingblogs.com titled, “What is Semantic Search?,” explaining the concepts of semantic search with regard to how it can be leveraged effectively by sourcers and recruiters. Now, I am not sure if the fact that it was posted the day before Christmas eve had anything to do [...]
Happy Holidays from www.BooleanBlackBelt.com
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Although I typically post at least 3 times a week (M/W/F), I’m taking the majority of this week to spend some quality time with my family – I hope you have the opportunity to do the same.
I’d like to use this brief post to sincerely thank each and every visitor to www.booleanblackbelt.com over the [...]
Basic Boolean Operators Explained
Basic Boolean Operators Explained
No, those aren’t my hands. I never cease to be amazed by what you can find on the Internet and what people take pictures of.
Now that I have your attention, this post is going to focus on the basic Boolean operators and search symbols and will not go into any detail of any of [...]
Lean Recruiting: No Forecasts or Talent Pipelines Required!
Lean Recruiting: No Forecasts or Talent Pipelines Required!
This is a follow up post to this article I wrote on Lean/JIT recruiting, which I circulated as a dicussion topic through a few of the larger staffing and recruiting groups on LinkedIn. I recieved some interesting responses, some of which led me to believe that perhaps I was not [...]
Resume Databases vs. Cold Calling and Referral Recruiting
Resume Database Recruiting vs. Cold Calling and Referral Recruiting
Candidate identification is perhaps the most critical step in the human capital supply chain – you can’t acquire and hire someone you haven’t found and identified in the first place. While many people have their opinions about the pros and cons of cold calling, referral recruiting, and [...]
Boolean Contest!
Boolean Contest – come one, come all!
Irina Shamaeva and I were chatting a few weeks back and she asked me if I thought a contest focused on Booolean strings would be a good idea. You can imagine my reaction – “Of course!” She thought offering prizes of ResumeFinder or ResumeGrabber would be a great idea, and Chandra [...]
Master Boolean Logic and Raise Your Game!
When it comes to golf, what’s more important – the clubs or the golfer?
It should be obvious that it is not the clubs, but the technique and skill of the person wielding the clubs. Tiger Woods could play better than most people even with 20 year old clubs found at a yard sale.
If you own a set of golf [...]
Lean Sourcing and Recruiting: JIT Candidate Acquisition
Lean Sourcing and Recruiting: JIT Candidate Acquisition
According to globally accepted supply chain management principles (such as those of Lean and the Toyota Production System), building and maintaining product inventories is wasteful. In an ideal state, companies would acquire the right material, at the right time, at the right place, and in the exact amount. This is called Just-In-Time [...]
Boolean Searches for Sales People on LinkedIn and More
While surfing through the discussions in the Boolean Strings Group on LinkedIn, I stumbled across someone asking for search advice on how to create effective Boolean search strings to find sales professionals and I offered some suggestions – which I will expand upon here, covering resume databases as well as leveraging LinkedIn via Google using the [...]
