Archive for April, 2009
E-Sourcing ROI: Searchability vs. Data Depth
I define e-sourcing as proactively searching information systems (ATS/CRM, Internet, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), to identify potential candidates. While there is much written on HOW to search the various talent sources available to recruiters today, there does not seem to be much written about their intrinsic value as sources of talent/human capital information.
I believe that the value of any [...]
What is the Low Hanging Fruit in Recruiting?
If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you know I’m a fan of leveraging every information resource available to me – my internal ATS/CRM, the Internet, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and yes, even job board resume databases (gasp!).
Have you ever heard job board naysayers refer to the resumes you can find on Monster, Dice, Careerbuilder, Hotjobs, etc. as the equivalent [...]
Is LinkedIn Becoming a Job Board?
Is LinkedIn a social networking site, a job board, or a little of both?
Most people consider LinkedIn to be a social networking site, or more specifically a professional network service. LinkedIn describes itself as an “interconnected network of experienced professionals.” However, when I take a step back and take an objective view of LinkedIn, I see [...]
Is Your ATS a Black Hole?
Most recruiting and staffing organizations, ranging from executive search sole proprietorships to staffing agencies and Fortune 500 companies, have internal databases filled with information on thousands to literally tens of millions of applicants, candidates, and professionals.
You would think that a private internal database of people that an organization has actively and passively, tactically and strategically collected over the years [...]
Don’t Be A Sourcing Snob
Are You a Sourcing Snob?
Ask yourself these questions:
Is a candidate identified on LinkedIn intrinsically “better” than a candidate sourced from Monster?
Is candidate sourced by cold calling inherently “better” than a candidate sourced from a job posting on Careerbuilder?
Does it really matter where a great candidate comes from?
I continue to see well respected thought leaders in the staffing industry [...]
Maximizing Your E-Sourcing Efforts
I define E-sourcing as leveraging information systems for active talent identification – searching the Internet, social media, job board resume databases, and applicant tracking systems to find candidates. The proper use of technology in the sourcing and recruiting process should increase your efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness. I’ve created the SlideShare presentation below to cover a number of [...]
Searching Social Media Requires Outside-the-Box Thinking
Non-Standard Descriptors and the Role They Play in Social Media
Article by Valerie Scarsellato, Sr. Sourcer at Intel Corporation
Co-written by Glen Cathey
Sourcing has always been a significant component in the recruiting lifecycle. However, in recent years, sourcing has taken a giant step into the forefront and has become recognized as the solid foundation at which successful recruiting rests [...]
How to Search Twitter for Sourcing and Recruiting
It appears that many people in the sourcing, recruiting, and staffing industry are all a-twitter about Twitter these days. My professional opinion is that Twitter is best utilized for personal and corporate branding, as well as socializing job opportunities – in other words, PASSIVE sourcing and recruiting techniques.
However, even if you’re a Twitter-hater, you cannot deny [...]
Semantic Search for Recruiters: Manual vs. Automated
Semantic search has been a hot topic in Internet search for a number of years now and it continues to generate quite the buzz. For example, Google just recently rolled out semantic search capability. However, when I talk about semantic search, I’m not referring to the semantic web or “web 3.0.”
I’m not so excited about [...]
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