Comments on: What if You Only Had One Source to Find Candidates?

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:31:00 +0000

I would definitely go for a free medium. Would make searches with different strings on Google or look for free/open resume sites. I think their are many.

By: Jeremy Roberts

Jeremy Roberts — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:10:04 +0000

I would use referyes.com

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By: Joyce

Joyce — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:19:12 +0000

It’s linkedin for the following reasons:
1) It’s Free!
2) Candidates genuine in exploring opportunities would post a brief career history, along with educational qualification for recruiter’s validation.
3) Based on the candidates’ connection, I can connect to other potential candidates.
4) Ease of contacting the candidate via email/ mobile phone – my experience is they usually answer within a week, if not faster.

By: Lenka Krivanova

Lenka Krivanova — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:22:52 +0000

I would definitely go for Internet and use search strings to find appropriate CVs and to X-ray also networking sites like LinkedIn (the best source for me currently). Using LinkedIn (with the search string via advanced options) is the easiest way, but should I have only one source I would not limit myself to only one network site, thus Internet is my vote!

By: theo

theo — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:33:17 +0000

that might be an impossible scenario, because you cannot screen candidates in three days … but I would suggest pulling candidates from free resume databases, of which there are plenty (I happen to use http://www.cbcjobs.com for example) and just running background checks

By: Jung Kim

Jung Kim — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:19:25 +0000

I would mine from Monster and/or CareerBuilder’s resume database; especially given Glen stating…”Your manager/client is requesting candidates with: the 3-5 years of related work experience (your choice – something not too vanilla/easy/common, but not ”purple squirrel” either)”

You can still retrieve some quality resumes from the resume databases. I think a lot of recruiters don’t leverage the tool the way they should. For example: it would be to your advantage to search for candidates all the way back to 365 days (the candidate may be poised to make a move, or just found out that his/her job will be eliminated soon).

Lastly, Monster has a reference field where job seekers can provide their list of references, which is optional. This is another great way to generate leads. You can use the following search string: references NEAR “company name”

By: Jason Singer

Jason Singer — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:08:45 +0000

I chose my own ATS because my information goes back in our local market at least to 1997. This 13 year history of resumes, conversations and contact info allows me to talk with people I have some relationship with who can help lead me to the right folks. Also, the searching I can do on my own information is pretty powerful.

By: Andy Logan

Andy Logan — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:16:17 +0000

My own database without a doubt, I believe the information on the database is generally pretty up to date, you dont have to go through switchboards or anything like that, like you have to with LinkedIn to get hold of people.

Plus the database would generally have candidates that have been qualified previously from your colleagues.

I consider my database the first point of call for every position I work on.

By: Chandra Bodapati

Chandra Bodapati — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:00:14 +0000

The way I read this question , if someone offered one free resource what would you take.

For the purpose of this example I chose post on multiple job boards (for free). The reason is, by having the jobs posted on all popular job boards at once there is a possibility that I will get all the candidates I need within a few hours. This is parallel processing with candidates and recruiters outside the company feeding me qualified resumes.

When I am not getting resumes, I will be busy sourcing on the free internet.

Chandra