1. No strategy
2. Targeting active candidates
3. Broadcasting when narrowcasting is needed
4. Not using talent communities
5. Relying on recruiters
6. Expecting speed, low cost, and high volume
7. Under-emphasizing the building of relationships and trust
8. Failing to target diversity
9. Limited use in college recruiting
10. Under emphasizing employer branding
11. Assuming there is a dividing line

Channel and tool selection errors

1. Incredibly narrow channel selection
2. Treating all channels the same
3. Failing to fully “know” the target
4. Not encouraging blogs
5. Being overly direct
6. A narrow range of tools

Message and coverage errors

1. Generic messages
2. A lack of authenticity
3. Using the wrong message type
4. Not identifying influencers
5. Failing to ask new hires to announce

Recruiter and employee support errors

1. Not providing guidance
2. Not supplying content

Process and administrative errors

1. Weak referral program handoff
2. Weak ATS handoff
3. Not being mobile platform friendly
4. Weak “comment tracking” tools
5. Weak business case
6. Failing to accept an online profile

Source: Dr. John Sullivan

Source: Jennifer McClure

No doubt in the coming weeks we will have to recalibrate a few things. In the meamntime, the iGoogle set-up files for anyone who wants a recruiter-specific template have been updated too.

A number of new custom search engines have been added under the Sourcing tab and some new finds have been added to the Lookups tab. The Video tab has been expanded to include a lot more tutorials from favorites like Ryan Leary [BooleanBar.com], Chris Hoyt [RecruiterGuy], Jim Stroud, Bill Radin and others.

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CraigsPal is a tool for filtering advanced searches on Craigslist, useful for sourcing resumes. Watch this video and see how easy it can be when you have the right tools at hand.

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• Get a complete list of Craigslist markets worldwide »
• Download CraigsPal, video tutorials, data sheets and more here »

If you one of the Mozilla-based browsers like Firefox, here are some examples for you to play with. Simply drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar and you’ll be ready to find individuals on any one of the featured sites. Once up on your bookmarks toolbar simply click and follow the prompts:

• Climber
• Ecademy
• Emurse
• Homepages
• Jobing.com
• LinkedIn
• Naymz
• Plaxo
• Resumes
• ResumeBucket
• VisualCV
• XING

Here is a video tutorial from the upcoming webinar, Untangling the Web: Recruiting with Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and most everything in between. It explains how to create your own: Creating a search bookmarklet for prospecting on LinkedIn.

If you would like a complete set of bookmarklets for a variety of sourcing and recruiting tasks, click here»

1. What do you love most about the work you just finished doing?
2. If you could design your life in terms of work, what would that job be?
3. What qualities mark the best manager you have had and the worst?
4. Looking back, how could you have better upwardly managed your worst manager?
5. If I was to make you CEO/head of something on your first day at this company, what would it be?
6. What would you do on your first day, your first week, and your first month in this role?
7. In the past, what environments/teams have you worked the best in?
8. What’s the hardest job you ever had?
9. What have you liked most and least about your past roles, and what would you hope to get out of this one?
10. What’s the best and worst career advice you’ve been given in your career?
11. Give me an example of a situation where you think you took a risk or took a controversial position?
12. What interests you about the business?
13. What appealed to you most/least about the job description?
14. What suggestion would you make regarding our web site (or other marketing materials)?
15. What news have you read recently that made you want to dig deeper and learn more?
16. What are you interested in developing within yourself right now (professionally)?
17. Tell me about a time when you had to change someone’s mind and your approach for doing so.
18. How have you learned from others’ substantive feedback of your work (e.g., edits or comments on your work)?
19. How might a detractor of yours (correctly or incorrectly) describe your greatest managerial shortcoming?
20. Describe what management challenges you had and how you navigated those
21. Can you describe a project that you managed end-to-end and what challenges you had to overcome to deliver on that?
22. What makes it a good day? Wherever you worked before, what made it a good day?
23. What do you like to do for fun? When you have a free evening what do you like to do?
24. Who are the people you admire?
25. What have you been reading?
26. What networks do you participate in, and in what way do you participate?

Source: Steph Beer

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1. Social media has a low cost of entry
2. Building brand equity is driven by social behaviors
3. “The Four C’s”: Communication, Collaboration, Conversation and Community
4. Different networks appeal to different demographics
5. Social networking can provide a greater depth of information about candidates and granular insight into target companies
6. Targeted searches reduce cycle time

Source: Ryan Leary, RecruitingTools.com