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 …
LinkedIn Errors
My LinkedIn account is having multiple problems with the functionality. It’s happening for the second time in the past few months. I can’t use my RPS account (it is a variation of LinkedIn Recruiter). I hope they will fix it again. The nice LinkedIn managers, who support my RPS account, point out that I am a power user and am likelier …
Mapping Out the New Generation Sourcing Tools
The Dream Software, that was the subject of my talk at SourceCon, is the new generation of sourcing software tools. Please check out my conference presentation slides at this link: SourceCon-Atlanta-PPT-Irina The blog post below continues to map out the architecture and the functionality of the future-generation tools. This post is “conceptual”. What I mean to say is, if you …
Sourcing is Dead
The End of Sourcing Is Near … is a post by Dr. John Sullivan on ERE that is drawing lots of attention. I am not going to argue with this point. Let’s just try to read the article carefully. Dr. John Sullivan writes: “Finding top talent among professionals is now becoming painless to the point where almost any firm can do …
A “Dream Software” Design Proposal
Disclaimer. This post is somewhat technical and doesn’t contain specific sourcing tips. It is relevant to my SourceCon Presentation, where I go over a specific kind of sourcing tools. Those tools are apparently gaining attention among recruiters. I am going to post detailed reviews of the tools – listed at the bottom of this post for your reference – here on the blog …