Archive for October, 2010
Talent Mining and the Future of Sourcing and Recruiting
Many people equate sourcing candidates with simply creating and running Boolean search strings. In my opinion and experience, Boolean search neither adequately describes nor gives proper credit to what sourcers and recruiters are really doing when they leverage the Internet, resume databases, ATS/CRM applications and social networking sites such as LinkedIn to find candidates, and [...]
The State of Candidate Sourcing – SourceCon 2010 DC
Did you attend the SourceCon event in D.C. at the International Spy Museum online? Did you watch it via live stream? Did you miss it altogether? Whether you attended or viewed SourceCon 2010 or not, I’d like to share with you my reflections on the event, including: An observation and a question about social recruiting [...]
LinkedIn Labs: NewIn, ChromeIn, Instant Search, and Signal
I’m not sure how many people read LinkedIn’s blog, but from the looks of my heavily recruiting-laden online social network, not many recruiters in my network do. At least I don’t see people in my network chatting about what LinkedIn just decided to share with the world, which is surprising to me given how cool [...]
LinkedIn Tips for Seeing Full Names of 3rd Degree Connections
I recently wrote about the change LinkedIn made that no longer allows people with a free LinkedIn account to view the full names of 3rd degree and group connections. While you can go through the trouble of using a search engine such as Bing to view any public LinkedIn profile, there are a few ways [...]
#RecruitFest 2010 Reflections and Insights
Is it just me, or does it seem that there have been a record number of sourcing, recruiting, and HR conferences this year? And we’re still in October! I would have loved to attend RecruitFest in person but I was unable to. However, I did catch quite a bit of the event via the live [...]
Now Premium on LinkedIn: Full Names of 3rd level & Group Connections
I had an associate with a free LinkedIn account contact me late last week complaining about how he could no longer see the full names of his LinkedIn search results for 3rd degree connections – his results only showed the first initial of the last name. Furthermore, he claimed that LinkedIn had started charging for [...]
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