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.).
You Know What They Say About Assumptions
Don’t fall prey to the common assumption that if 2 sourcers or recruiters have access to the same source of human capital data that they will both find exactly the same people. It simply isn’t true. While searching for resumes seems easy, searching for and finding the best available candidates a system has to offer is not – because you are never aware of what you don’t find.
Read this post for a dramatic example of how literally hundreds of sourcers and recruiters can search the same system for months and not find the right/best candidates available.
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Glen, EXCELLENT slideshow! You really do go out of your way to share your knowledge, and the slideshow was executed very well and was completely on point. I’m keeping this in my ‘resources’ file along with 6 – 10 of your other posts that are already in there.
Glen – just want to thank you so much for all you so willingly share
with us. I love to read your work and get so much out of them!
Thanks for sharing!
As always enjoyed your work.. great Effort Glen.
This is the first time I have reviewed your materials! WoW! Quite impressive! I want to be like you!
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You’re all very welcome – thanks for reading!
What I have found is that flawless and consistent execution of the basics yields at least 80% of a recruiter’s results. Too often, people look for the “next best thing,” wanting for some reason to move beyond the “basics,” not realizing that the less common and exotic techniques account for less than 20% of results.
wonderfull, thank you for sharing,
I like to use LinkedIn to see what titles our competitors are using for the same role. “Global Footprint Leader” at my company turns out to be “Emerging Market Development Leader” or “Global Sourcing Leader” at a Competitor’s.
And when I finally find a great candidate who matches my hard-to-define role, I look closely at his or her resume for anything I can use in my next search to find more like him/her–like a membership at an obscure but relevant professional organization.
@Kate – well done, and spoken like a black belt sourcer! I refer to those techniques as “adaptive searching” and “deconstructing the perfect resume” – analyzing search results for clues as to additional keywords, companies and titles to use (or avoid!) in successive searches to get a larger quantity of more relevant results.
Respect!
Hi Glen,
I have never really understood the NOT operator well when I read your other posts. This slide explained it very well and I use it to search my candidates and glad to see I come across a different set of candidates with the searches I run.
Now I use it for all my searches.
Hi Glen,
Excellent slide show. Made me understand how to work smarter,quicker and be more precise with my searches.
Thanks a lot.
Ritu