Best Practices
Recruiting is a Matter of Perspective
It is all too easy for sourcers, recruiters, HR professionals, and hiring teams to develop a skewed, distorted, and decidedly one-way view of the world. Perhaps spending 99% of the time on only one side of the recruiting process is to blame.
Regardless of the cause, it is absolutely critical to regularly take the time and [...]
LinkedIn Sourcing Tip: Searching by Company? Beware!
Recently, I wrote about the intrinsic issues associated with searching LinkedIn for potential candidates with specific industry experience, and how using the “Industry” field can actually prevent you from finding the people you’re looking for.
A number of readers responded by suggesting a logical solution to the issue – searching by specific company name(s) instead of using LinkedIn’s ”Industry” [...]
Sourcing Training Best Practices
One of the most common forms of group training in the sourcing community is the webinar.
Some are free, others cost money. Some are internal corporate trainings, and others are delivered by 3rd party trainers.
Although web based training is relatively easy to deliver and it offers the ability to train large numbers of people across multiple [...]
Top 10 Candidate Sourcing Best Practices
I firmly believe that candidate identification is the most critical step in the talent acquisition/recruiting life cycle – you can’t build a relationship with, receive a referral from, network with, or hire someone you haven’t found in the first place.
From the very beginning of my recruiting career, I’ve leveraged technology for talent identification, and I’ve learned that searching databases, [...]
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