Replay

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• Searching for Candidates on Google: A Primer, Part 1 – Boolean Basics
• Searching for Candidates on Google: A Primer, Part 2 – Syntax Basics 
• Searching for Candidates on Google: A Primer, Part 3 – More Commands 
• Searching for Candidates on Google: A Primer – Slide Deck [PDF]

References

• Extreme Sourcing Online: A Sourcers’ Worksheet – Getting Started [Video tutorial]
• CAPTCHA Gotcha? (How to unlock CAPTCHA on your Google account) [Video tutorial]
• CAPTCHA Gotcha? Part 2 [Video tutorial]
• The Essentials of Google Search [Online reference including choosing search terms and using the advanced search option]
• Google Tutor [Online reference including Google Search Manual]
• Google Guide [Online reference including a useful two-page quick reference]
• Google Hacks 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tricks [E-book and reference]
• Resume Forensics [A PDF collection of tips, hacks and tools from Jim Stroud]
• The Art of Shakespeare Recruiting [A PDF collection of tips, hacks and tools from Jim Stroud]

Tools and Resources

• The G-Recruiters’ Bookmarks [Various hacks, look-ups, references, video tutorials, etc.]
• The G-Recruiters’ Guru’s String Finder [Custom search for sample queries and tutorials from recruiting cybersleuths]
• The Boolean Bar [Firefox plugin/toolbar with hundreds of pre-constructed queries. Includes hacks from The G-Recruiters' Bookmarks and more - see video tutorial]
• Recruiting Rocket Recruiter Toolbar [A toolbar for sourcing candidates across sites like LinkedIn and other online communities]
• Fagan Finder [A comprehensive interface for Google search]
• Boolean Strings Network [Web sourcing community]
• Boolean Strings on RecruitingBlogs.com [Web sourcing community]
• Boolean Strings on LinkedIn [Web sourcing community]
• SourceCon [Sourcing news and knowledge]

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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»

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Session sponsor: Standout Jobs

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Session sponsor: Diversity.com

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Session sponsors: ZoomInfo

• Candidate Sourcing Here are the slides for the presentation that covers the basic concepts for developing a sourcing plan [based on the candidate profile].  Download the presentation here [PDF] and workbook notes here [PDF].
• Searching for Candidates on Google: Part 1 The presentation slides introducing the basics of Boolean search operators.  Download the presentation here [PDF] and workbook notes here [PDF].
• Sourcing Workshop: Tools and Resources This document is packed full of cool stuff but it is password protected. If you have not attended a BROWN BAG RECRUITER session before but would still like access you can request the link here.

Here are the opening slides:

Session sponsor: ZoomInfo

Presentations

• Candidate Sourcing Here are the slides for the presentation that covers the basic concepts for developing a sourcing plan [based on the candidate profile].  Download the presentation here [PDF] and workbook notes here [PDF].
• Searching for Candidates on Google: Part 1 The presentation slides introducing the basics of Boolean search operators.  Download the presentation here [PDF] and workbook notes here [PDF].
• Sample Hacks A short list of search strings to play with [to be expanded so check back later].

Google Basics

• Boolean Searching on the Internet Database searching is often based on the principles of Boolean logic. Google is no exception which makes this primer particularly useful.
• The Essentials of Google Search From Google these pages cover everything from choosing search terms through using the advanced search option.
• Google Tutor Tips and tutorials including a Google Search Manual that covers basics like building a search query and adding basic operators to more advanced stuff.
• Google Guide This online tutorial is made up of easy to digest chapters with plenty of examples and problems to work through, up to expert levels. Includes a useful two-page quick reference.
• Google People Search [Wendy Boswell, About.com] An overview of using Google to find people.

Firefox Downloads

• Firefox 3 The latest version of Firefox is by far the best browser for sourcing because of the large number of useful add-ons that support candidate sourcing and related search…
• Advanced Dork Quick access to Google’s advanced operators directly from the context menu
• Customize Google This extension enhances Google search results by adding extra information like links to Yahoo, Ask, AllTheWeb, Live, Lycos, Technorati, Feedster, Wikipedia, Bloglines, Altavista, A9. It also removes unwanted information like ads and spam.
• DownThemAll! A download manager particularly helpful for saving results to your desktop. Here is an excellent tutorial by Geoff Peterson on StaffBytes.com:
  Firefox Video Tutorial: Get ALL The Resumes
• Google Toolbar for Firefox As if you needed telling!
• Hyperwords Select any text on any page for one-click access to references, searches, conversions, translations and so on.
• LinkedIn Companion Access LinkedIn’s search directly from highlighted text on the web page, from the toolbar and more.
• More Add-ons Depending on your level of interest and comfort there are many useful extensions that can enhance your sourcing experience and browsing fun. Check them out…

More Downloads

• Sourcing Bookmarklets Glenn Gutmacher’s collection of sourcing applets
• Surfing Bookmarklets A useful collection from Bookmarklets.com [includes user groups]
• Argali White & Yellow Directory look-up tool.

Video Tutorials

• The Recruiters Guide to Google [Password is google101]  Courtesy of Jim Stroud
• Search Engine Fundamentals and Basic Boolean Logic Series of 4 videos bu Otis Collier
• Sourcing Resumes Using Yahoo! and Firefox
• Social Networking in Plain English A Common Craft tutorial
• RSS in Plain English Another Common Craft video

More Reading

• Google Hacks 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tricks This is the entire book, a collection of tested solutions with a variety of interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of information that Google indexes.
• Resume Forensics Jim Stroud’s collection of tips, hacks and procedures for sourcing candidates online. Two more useful resources from Jim Stroud: Digability – Yahoo Commando [PDF] and Digability – Cheat Sheet [PDF].

Special thanks to ZoomInfo for sponsoring this session and for making a 7-day free trial available for us to use.

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• Binder: Cover and contents pages
• Part One: Program Overview and Curriculum Guide
• Part Two: Combined session slides and workbook notes
• Part Three: BROWN BAG RECRUITER Kick-off Session Playbook

If you rather, here are individual session slides and accompanying documents to view and download separately…

Session One: BROWN BAG RECRUITER Kick-off

Here are the opening series of slides for the breakfast kick-off session of BROWN BAG RECRUITER…

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• Download the workbook notes for this session [PDF]

Session sponsor: RecruitingBlogs.com

Session Two: Job and Candidate Profiling

Here are the slides for the presentation that introduces our approach to job and candidate profiling…

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• Download the workbook notes for this session [PDF]

Session sponsor: Standout Jobs

Session Three: Candidate Sourcing

Here are the slides for the presentation that introduce some basic concepts for developing a sourcing plan based on the candidate profile…

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• Download the workbook notes for this session [PDF]

Session sponsor: Diversity.com

Cut Session: BASIC TRAINING: A Systematic Approach

This session was excluded on the day because of time constraints. It is useful nonetheless…

Here are the slides for the presentation that previews the systematic approach embodied in BROWN BAG RECRUITER…

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• Download the workbook notes for this session [PDF]

Session sponsor: RecruitingBlogs.com

For a full list of program sponsors, click here…

• Get the presentation slides [PowerPoint]
• Download the presentation slides [PDF]
• Download the workbook notes for this session [PDF]

For the record, the original sponsors for this session were: RCI Recruitment Solutions

• Get the presentation slides [PDF]
• Download the workbook notes for this session [PDF]

Session sponsor: RecruitingBlogs.com