Archive for January, 2009
Do You Have Talent Intelligence?
Does your recruiting or staffing organziation have Talent Intelligence?
I believe that all staffing organizations should view and value their internal resume/candidate database/ATS as a proprietary business intelligence tool. Business intelligence refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information and help companies develop consistent and “data-based” business decisions [...]
Best Use of Search Aggregators such as infoGIST
I am often asked my opinion on the best use of resume search “aggregators” such as those offered by infoGIST, TalentHook, DataFrenzy, AIRS and others. If you’re not familair with the term, a resume search aggregator is an application that allows a user to enter a search string that will execute across multiple free and paid job board resume [...]
LinkedIn’s Advanced Search Operators
IMPORTANT NOTE 12/12/09
Although LinkedIn’s advanced operators ceased to work properly for a period of a few months earlier this year, I am very happy to report that they are working again. Once more you will be able to harness LinkedIn’s search fields by hand coding your search strings and bypassing the search interface/fields.
Original Post
LinkedIn has [...]
Searching for C Programmers
I recently had a reader ask me for help with creating effective Boolean search strings for C programmers. I thought I would share the advice I provided as it can be helpful for sourcers and recruiters who search for tricky skills/technologies, especially common words, single/special characters, and older technologies that many people mention but no longer have current [...]
Searching Twitter for Sourcing and Recruiting
Twitter is cool, but Twitter is shallow. A shallow source of human capital data, that is.
As a micro-blogging application, each “Tweet” is capped at a max of 140 characters (hence ”micro”), and people fill out their short “bios” to a lesser or greater extent. Don’t go to Twitter expecting to leverage it as a resume database, or even [...]
Targeting GPA’s with Boolean Search Strings
Have you ever wanted or needed to be able to search for people that have a grade point average in a specific range? Searching for the term “laude” will certainly pull results of any person who specifically makes mention of graduating cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, but not everyone with a decent [...]
Achieving Semantic Search without Proximity Operators
How sourcers and recruiters can achieve semantic search WITHOUT using Boolean proximity search operators such as NEAR
If you’ve read these 3 posts: Semantic Search for Sourcers and Recruiters, Semantic Search for Sourcers and Recruiters Round 2, and Semantic Search using the NEAR Operator, you already know I am a fan of leveraging semantic search for sourcing [...]
Semantic Search using the NEAR Boolean Operator
This post will cover graphic examples of how to achieve semantic search using the NEAR Boolean operator on Monster and on the Internet via Exalead using Accounting and Information Technology hiring profiles.
First, if you have not done so already, be sure to read these 2 posts that throroughly explain the concepts of user-defined semantic search for sourcing and [...]
Boolean Search Strings for a Sales Tax Manager
Boolean Search Strings for a Sales/Use Tax Manager
NOTE!
For those who have absolutely no interest in seeing search examples for a tax manager position, the search principles and tips contained in the post can be applied to ANY SEARCH, and you may also be interested in a demonstration of the NEAR operator, as well as a couple [...]
The Internet has Free Resumes – SO WHAT?
BEWARE: This post takes a contrarian (yet fact-based!) view of the Internet as a sourcing tool that may be unsuitable to some readers. If you don’t want to hear anything other than how awesome the Internet is for sourcing and recruiting, please stop reading now.
The Internet has Free Resumes – SO WHAT?
Okay, so you can find free [...]
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