Internet Sourcing
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 [...]
The Internet has Free Resumes – SO WHAT?
BEWARE: This post takes a contrarian (yet fact-based!) view of the Internet as a sourcing tool that may be unsuitable to some readers. If you don’t want to hear anything other than how awesome the Internet is for sourcing and recruiting, please stop reading now.
The Internet has Free Resumes – SO WHAT?
Okay, so you can find free [...]
Boolean Contest!
Boolean Contest – come one, come all!
Irina Shamaeva and I were chatting a few weeks back and she asked me if I thought a contest focused on Booolean strings would be a good idea. You can imagine my reaction – “Of course!” She thought offering prizes of ResumeFinder or ResumeGrabber would be a great idea, and Chandra [...]
Boolean Searches for Sales People on LinkedIn and More
While surfing through the discussions in the Boolean Strings Group on LinkedIn, I stumbled across someone asking for search advice on how to create effective Boolean search strings to find sales professionals and I offered some suggestions – which I will expand upon here, covering resume databases as well as leveraging LinkedIn via Google using the [...]
Where can you find the most Bilingual WAN Engineers?
I was reading a discussion in the Boolean Strings group on LinkedIn and someone was having difficulty in locating a bilingual (Spanish) WAN Engineer in the Denver, CO area. It sounded like as good of a challenge as any, so I decided to take a crack at seeing what I could find by searching the Internet via [...]
Google and LinkedIn Search for a Bioinformatics Executive
I came across a discussion in Irinia Shamaeva’s LinkedIn Boolean Strings group and found a search string example for a senior executive of bioinformatics in the New Haven, CT area.
I actually tried the original search suggestion, using Google, and got 0 results:
(filetype:doc OR filetype:wpd OR filetype:wps OR filetype:pdf OR filetype:rtf OR filetype:txt) AND (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) [...]
Booleans for a Senior Tax or Audit Lead/Manager
One of my blog readers recently reached out to me and asked me for help with a search for a Senior Tax or Audit Lead/Manager in a location that’s not in the most populated area of the United States (to put it nicely). They informed me they did not have access to any of the [...]
Resumes on the Internet: Monster vs. Google Round 2
In response to my post of Resumes on the Internet: Monster vs. Google one of my readers commented that “While it may be true that Monster has more resumes than Google, using a zip code search is not a fair comparison for Google. People who post their resumes on Monster are required to enter their zip code, [...]
Where can you find the MOST passive candidates?
So where do you think you can find the most passive candidates?
I think it depends heavily on how you define a passive candidate. Some would argue that anyone can qualify as a “candidate” if they can be found. That would mean that anyone on the Internet is a potential candidate. I see the reasoning behind [...]
Resumes on the Internet: Monster vs. Google
If you are a sourcer or recruiter I am sure that at some point in your career you’ve read somewhere or heard someone say how the Internet has 10X the number of candidates that can be found on the online job boards. I’ve always taken that for face value because, to be honest, it’s really [...]
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