Archive for March, 2009
How to Control Years of Experience with a Boolean String
Have you ever found yourself running searches for candidates online or in a resume database and finding a large number of results are of people who are either too senior or too junior? Ever wondered if there was something you could do about it?
Although my first bit of advice to sourcers and recruiters facing this [...]
How to Find Candidates Others Don’t and Can’t
Not All Boolean Searches Are Created Equal.
I created this SlideShare presentation to show sourcers and recruiters simple, yet highly effective strategies that can enable you to search for and find candidates that other sourcers and recruiters can’t – even when searching systems you both have access to (such as LinkedIn, online resume databases, etc.).
Hidden Talent Pools
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Free Content Does Not Mean Low Value
I am well aware that readers come to my blog because I freely share what I feel is basic and common sourcing and recruiting knowledge and information. Quite honestly, that’s one of the major reasons why I write in the first place – to provide value and to help others.
The ROI of Cheap Training
I am not [...]
Job Boards Evolving With Social Media?
With the rise in companies effectively leveraging SEM (Search Engine Marketing)/SEO (Search Engine Optimization), vertical job search engines such as Indeed and SimplyHired, and social media campaigns, it seems as if many feel that the ROI of posting jobs on the major job boards has steadily declined. Perhaps this is where the strong anti-job board sentiment comes from within the recruiting and [...]
How to X-Ray Search Facebook for Candidate Sourcing
I recently wrote a post on how to search for candidates on Facebook where I featured all of Facebook’s “built-in” search capabilities. Shortly after publishing the article, I received a question from one of my regular readers asking why I did not include searching Facebook using the site: query modifier (as Google calls it), also known [...]
Sourcing ROI: Resume vs. Non-Resume Info
Depth Matters!
Human capital data comes in many forms – resumes, social network profiles, blogs, bios, etc. – and I have found that a key and critical aspect of sources of human capital data that many people fail to formally recognize is the quality and depth of the information.
When it comes to leveraging information systems such [...]
How to Search For Candidates on Facebook
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you already know I am a fan of highly searchable, “deep” sources of human capital data. Unfortunately, Facebook isn’t deep on professional data nor is it very searchable. When it comes to social media/networking sites, nothing comes close to LinkedIn when it comes to the “searchability” [...]
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Human Capital Data Analysts – Sourcing Samurai
What’s The Sexiest Job in Recruiting?
I recently read this excellent post on the Google blog written by Jonathan Rosenberg, SVP, Product Management at Google, and I was especially excited to read this:
“Hal Varian likes to say that the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. After all, who would have guessed that computer engineers would [...]
Is Candidate Sourcing Dead?
Why Do Some People Think Sourcing is Dead?
Some people believe sourcing is a dying function because it is relatively easy to identify and find information on a large number of people using the Internet and social media.
What’s Really Happening
First it was Internet search engines. Then it was the job board resume databases. Now it’s social [...]
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