Job Boards
What if You Only Had One Source to Find Candidates?
Imagine that you were just assigned a position to recruit for and that you needed to present 2 fully screened, highly qualified and well matched candidates within 5 business days.
Your manager/client is requesting candidates with:
3-5 years of related work experience (your choice – something not too vanilla/easy/common, but not ”purple squirrel” either)
Experience in a specific industry, and experience working in a similar [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Job Boards Evolving With Social Media?
With the rise in companies effectively leveraging SEM (Search Engine Marketing)/SEO (Search Engine Optimization), vertical job search engines such as Indeed and SimplyHired, and social media campaigns, it seems as if many feel that the ROI of posting jobs on the major job boards has steadily declined. Perhaps this is where the strong anti-job board sentiment comes from within the recruiting and [...]
LinkedIn Poll: Job Boards More Effective for Getting Jobs
Job Boards vs. Social Media – which is more effective at helping people get jobs?
At least for now, statistics appear to support that job boards are either more widely used to find jobs, or simply more effective at landing people jobs than social networking sites.
According to a recent LinkedIn poll, 4310 people responded and 22% of the respondents [...]
Job Boards vs. Social Networking Sites
I follow a number of recruiting blogs as well as many sourcers and recruiters on Twitter and I see a growing trend of job board bashing – typically comparing them (very) unfavorably to social networking sites and applications.
I love and leverage social networking as much as the the next recruiting professional, but I refuse to just blindly [...]
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 [...]
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