Who likes extra mouse clicks? Who likes a zillion windows open at the same time? It’s key for people sourcing productivity to see some previews of the search results, to make quick mini-decisions about opening those extra windows. Seeing informative previews leads to staying focused, saving the sourcing costs, and enhancing the search experience. (I’ve long wanted to design and …
The Sourcing Tools Survey Summary
The first ever Sourcing Tools Survey has been completed. We had 633 participants from 36 countries! About 60% of participants were US-based. These countries had a strong representation: Australia, Canada, India, and the UK. About 90% of those who participated were people in recruiting and sourcing: about ½ from agencies and ½ from corporations. We also had a number of sales, business …
Matching
Since searching all over the web with the raising complexity of sourcing is difficult, it seems to be desirable to ease the searching pains with auto-matching. Several vendors provide that, including Bright.com and LinkedIn. I have recently talked with the folks from Bright.com and was amazed to learn that they are getting some serious active candidates’ traffic: around 3.5 MLN resumes submitted or refreshed within the …
Webinar: Sourcing For Diversity
Join us for a Webinar with Irina Shamaeva on April 10 There’s no question about the positive effect diversity plays at corporations. If you make your goal to include diversity profiles in the talent pool, there are some straightforward ways to achieve that. When we discuss specific sourcing tips with recruiters in the People Sourcing Certification Program, they are often …
Announcement: The Best Boolean Strings for Sale
Following multiple suggestions over the last two years and the apparent demand for this type of service we are immediately opening a new type of business with the Best Boolean Strings being its primary delivery. The preliminary pricing is as follows: The Best Boolean String for one job description: $100 The Best Boolean Strings for 5 jobs or more: 15% discount …
10 Sourcing Complexities
I have been asked to list the “Sourcing complexities and pain points” (especially in IT recruiting, but not just). Here are the 10 points I came up with. Add yours? 1. Job Descriptions Are Not Enough. Sourcing from a job description alone is difficult, because it never completely defines what to search for. In fact, job descriptions are written for candidates, …
The Sourcing Tools Survey
March 25, 2013. Dear All: The Sourcing Tools Survey is up! We encourage everyone in the industry to take 5-7 minutes of your time and checkmark the specific tools you use. I am excited about the survey and am looking to hear from many people in our industry. This is an opportunity for all of us to learn from each …
Find People on Google-Plus
I’ve always felt that Google-Plus has a great future, since it was announced. Adding Communities was a big and positive change. A recent shift in its User Interface tells me that Google-Plus continues moving in the right direction. Did you notice the “new” Find People function? When selected, it provides the ability to: Check your gmail address book against your …
People Sourcing Tools Suggestions
I have posted a draft list for the People Sourcing Tools Survey that I plan to run to run on my sourcing- and social recruiting-related groups and the Ning network. By no means am I trying to create an exhaustive list of tools, but I didn’t want to miss anything “major”. I have also shared the draft with the active, well-run Google+ Community …
Where Is Waldo on LinkedIn?
We can still send messages to fellow group members on LinkedIn without using the precious InMail count. But here’s what I just noticed, while sourcing for a new opening. If you did a people search, restricted it to fellow group members only, and viewed the results, you used to be clearly notified which group(s) you have in common with the …