Over the course five sessions, and with a little practice of course, you can go from so-so sourcer to a recruiting rock star in just two weeks. Each live 60-minute session in the Online Recruiter: Zero to Hero Series helps you advance at your own pace. Step-by-step how-to’s show you how to succeed using today’s internet.

• Monday – Boolean or Bust: The basics for building effective searches are shared so you can start tracking down active and passive candidates from social networking sites, resume databases, off competitor sites and more.
• Tuesday – A Sourcers’ Worksheet: A step-by-step guide on building a keyword reference that not only takes your searching online to the next level but positions you for success throughout the recruiting process. This could be the single most valuable document you ever produce!
• Wednesday - Advanced Search for Novices, Masters and Everyone in between: Even “seasoned” sourcers will get a kick out of these innovative techniques for surfacing the most deeply buried candidates, producing actionable leads, org. charts, call-lists and more.
• Thursday - Systems, Automation, Tools and Tackle: One of the biggest sources of waste in recruiting online are the repetitive tasks which, by their nature, are a chore. In this session you’ll discover how to use a no-cost approach for automating routines tasks so you can get on with recruiting.
• Friday - Bringing Search Inside: Now that you are one of the go-to people for no-cost recruiting online, learn how to effectively support your team and/or hiring managers with a constant flow of qualified candidates. Using tools like custom search engines, give your organization a competitive edge, and yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.

This session is presented by Amitai Givertz. Ami will be sharing how tried and true online recruiting practices can be integrated with emerging tools and innovations for both recruiting and professional advantage.

For quick registration click here »

The webinars can be viewed as stand alone tutorials or combined. Together these sessions help us apply lessons learned from guerrilla warfare to the equally tricky business of finding, attracting and engaging talent.

Each session is packed with practical lessons that are fully supported with self-paced study materials that include video tutorials, online references, cheatsheets, tools and apps to download, and more.

To register for the entire series at a discounted rate of $95.00, or for one of the standalone sessions, register on here »

Guerrilla Recruiting Online: Strategy

Guerrilla Recruiting Online: Tactics

Guerrilla Recruiting Online: Organization

All sessions are presented by Amitai Givertz. Ami is described as “fast becoming a central theorist and practitioner in 21st Century online recruiting,” and credited with “some of the most interesting thinking in today’s recruiting industry.” He is also a co-author of Guerrilla Recruiting with David Perry, their second book together, to be published soon.

Overview

When it comes to knowing where to find the most effective tools and resources to support a particular campaign, or navigating through the barrage of online data that result from recruiting online, having quick and easy access to what is needed now is key to success. In this show-and-tell session all these topics and more are addressed:

• How to streamline information gathering for business and recruiting advantage
• How to create actionable intelligence in “battle-ready” search engines built for the field
• How to set-up and manage a command and control center using everyday internet tools.

Self-paced study materials and other resources are included to download.

• Quick registration for the Wednesday, February 12 session »
• Quick registration for the Tuesday, February 18 session »
  

Overview

In this packed 60-minute session you’ll discover how to execute on your sourcing plan. From conventional to unconventional uses of search engines to uncovering candidates using stealth and cunning online, the two takeaways from this session will be competitive advantage and candidates previously beyond your reach.

• Beyond advanced search [even for beginners]
• Systematizing processes to minimize sourcing efforts while maximizing flow
• “Uncover Ops” – legal ways to co-opt your competitors sites, resume databases and more

Self-paced study materials and other resources are included to download.

• Quick registration for the Wednesday, February 11 session »
• Quick registration for the Tuesday, February 17 session »
  

Overview

This fast moving workshop covers possibly the most important step in the process. Easy to use methods are explained so that you can quickly develop both an understanding of the recruiting landscape and the options available for developing an effective plan of “online attack.” This solid one-hour training includes:

• Identifying high-value, high probability targets through online profiling
• Establishing key resources for competitive intelligence and referrals
• Developing a no-cost online campaign for finding and attracting talent

Self-paced study materials and other resources are included to download.

• Quick registration for the Wednesday, February 10  session »
• Quick registration for the Tuesday, February 16  session »
  

Overview

While Google’s Gmail is one of the best known webmail services very few people understand how to unlock its potential for building competitive advantage. For recruiters Gmail can be used for much more than composing, sending, receiving and archiving messages. For example, Gmail can:

• Scale up or down for personal and/or corporate use

• Support “lean recruiting” methods including resume warehousing for “just-in-time” recruiting

• Simplify project management for individual, team and corporate recruiting activities including applicant tracking

• Produce management reports and recruiting metrics

This 90-minute “show and tell” will walk you through each step for creating a Gmail solution of your own:

Building a Gmail-enabled Resume Database

• Five ways to populate your resume database for free
• Automate candidate flow for working projects

Setting up your system

• Mapping your recruitment processes
• Managing information and workflow in Gmail

Project management

• Applicant tracking from search to selection
• Basic reporting and recruiting metrics

This training includes the recorded session and useful resources to help you get started.

• For quick registration for the Tuesday, January 29 session »

Overview

This fast-paced workshop explains why the first step in the recruiting process is perhaps the most important. Managing the different types of profile involved in developing recruiting competitive advantage are explained with practical tips and techniques to get you on the right track.

Profiling 101

• Understanding the difference between job-, candidate, performance- and success profiles
• How and when to use them for leveraging better control

Managing a profile-driven process

• Developing a “rules-based” approach
• From task analysis, job descriptions and performance management: Developing an integrated system
• Managing hiring managers and candidate expectations to ensure positive outcomes for every search
• Blueprints applied: From recruitment communications through candidate selection and onboarding – how to use your profiles

This training includes:

Recorded sessions, sample worksheets, self-paced study material, references and more.

For quick registration for the Tuesday, January 26 session »

This session will take your understanding and application of Google search to the next level. In non-technical terms, and with easy to follow examples, you’ll quickly discover how to build custom and vertical search engines.

Discover…

• Why and how to use Google’s Custom Search Engines
• What is “off-label vertical search” and how it creates competitive advantage
• Profiling, screening, assessment and engine-driven search: How to connect the dots
• Why recruiters who know how to “out-Google Google” can out-smart the competition too
• How building an engine that drives recruiting efficiency can be child’s-play, cost practically nothing and yield actionable results from the get-go.

This session is presented by Amitai Givertz. Ami will be sharing the latest research in recruiting applications that use Google’s search engine and other services.

For quick registration click here »

Overview

This fast moving 90-minute workshop tackles some of the problems recruiting on the internet today and provides practical solutions that can be applied immediately. Beginners and advanced internet recruiters will find new and innovative approaches for finding hidden talent, becoming more productive and staying ahead of your closest competition.

The 90-minute session covers the following:

Intelligent Recruiting

• How to gather competitive intelligence using sites like Twitter and LinkedIn
• How to monitor changes in the recruiting landscape and for current searches in real-time, using your desktop or web-based email programs
• How to find buried information on candidates and apply it to improve lead-to-contact ratios, the candidate experience and more!

Get your Search Engines into Overdrive

• Applying guerrilla tactics for generating candidate flow from social networking sites and resume databases
• How to build your own search engine in minutes and eliminate the need for repetitive and/or difficult search queries for good
• How to download 100’s of resumes from your search results in seconds
• Unlock 100’s of search engines with a single click of your mouse!

Web Untangling Tools

• Learn how to apply the best tools and free applications for streamlining your efforts and recruiting better qualified people — without a lot of hassle.

Self-paced study materials and other resources for all sessions are included to download.

• For quick registration for the Monday, January 25 session, click here »
• For quick registration for the Thursday, January 28 session, click here »

Overview

This workshop combines the three 20-minute sessions originally delivered as lunchtime webinar “snacks.” The updated session explores ways in which we can go beyond the Google’s search engine to use a variety of Google tools and services to optimize our recruiting efficiency. This solid one-hour training includes:

Unlocking Google’s “Resume Database”

• How to find active and passive candidates on sites like LinkedIn, Myspace and Facebook
• How to uncover hidden sources of competitive intelligence, actionable leads and solid referrals
• How to surface resumes without advanced search strings, tricky code or internet sourcing expertise

Google’s Hidden Candidates, Leads and More…

• A no-fluff introduction on advanced searching for surfacing talent, leads and resumes online [with examples you can immediately apply]
• How to “program” Google to “automate” your searches to save time and effort
• How to use Google for collaborative sourcing, 24/7 support and more!

Google’s Recruiter Toolkit

• How to use some of Google’s services and extensions to copy ATS functionality that can be accessed form any computer, anywhere and anytime.

Self-paced study materials and other resources are included to download.

• For quick registration for the Tuesday,  December 12 session »
• For quick registration for the Thursday, December 21 session »