Using Firefox Extension Outwit to Capture Resume Data

This tutorial one of many shared in the webinar series Untangling the Web: Recruiting with Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and most everything in between…

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Diversity Recruiting with Google and LinkedIn

A snippet from the recent webinar series Untangling the Web: Recruiting with Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and most everything in between…

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Top 10 Free Ways to Advertise Your Job Openings

  1. Blog
  2. Twitter
  3. SimplyHired.com
  4. Indeed.com
  5. Linked In
  6. Business Cards
  7. SEO
  8. Your Organization’s Career Site
  9. Your employees
  10. The reputation of your organization

Source: RecruitingBlogs.com

Using Twitter for Employment Branding? 15 Things Recruiters Can Tweet About…

  1. Employee programs
  2. Link to blog posts, articles and other thought leadership pieces
  3. Post photos from your corporate events
  4. Company press releases
  5. Link to your job postings
  6. Interview/selection process.
  7. Bad candidates
  8. Good candidates
  9. Events and appearances
  10. Offers and new hires
  11. Career advice
  12. Did someone else mention your company in a tweet?
  13. Non-work activities
  14. Other digital networking tools
  15. Other employees on Twitter

Source: Jessica Lee

The Sourcerer’s Apprentice: Online Webinars & Video Tutorials

Geoff Peterson is a Master at his craft; some goodies from the Master…

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Hidden Talent Pools

A great presentation courtesy of Glen Cathey who publishes Boolean Black Belt…

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13 Reasons for Poor Sales Hires by Hard Working Sales Managers

  1. Do not use multiple sources for finding job candidates.
  2. Source for candidates just before they need a position filled.
  3. Rush through hiring without a multistage process … interview and then hire (a pipe process instead of a funnel).
  4. Have not analyzed and do not know the top 6 personality traits necessary in top performers for industry sales competence.
  5. Do shoot-from-the-hip non-structured interviews without questions designed to discover competencies, important personality traits, and character attributes.
  6. Recruit personality traits and sales skills over character values like honesty, personal responsibility, and hard work ethic.
  7. Do not use a validated personality profile.
  8. Sell their company to candidates during MOST of the interview time. They even sell themselves on the candidate.
  9. Talk more than the candidate does during an in-depth interview.
  10. Do not involve other employees during final interviews.
  11. Save candidates when they struggle with a question – sometimes even giving them the answer.
  12. Hire candidates when only their instinct says yes.
  13. Hire candidates when their instinct says no.

Source: Lance Cooper

Top 15 Common Secondary Sourcing Mistakes

  1. Over analyzing resumes
  2. Running overly generic/basic searches
  3. Making assumptions about candidates from their resumes
  4. Not spending at least 10 minutes search strategy before you start
  5. Seeing each resume only as a potential match for the position you’re working on
  6. Assuming search finds all qualified candidates
  7. Searching only resumes posted within 30 days when searching major job boards
  8. Not calling candidates that appear to be under- or over-qualified
  9. Submitting the first 2 -3 candidates you find that fit your job/hiring profile
  10. Thinking that the major online job boards have poor quality candidates
  11. Thinking that after searching you’ve found all the candidates
  12. Relying solely or heavily on title-based searches
  13. Not using the NOT operator
  14. Only using skill/tech terms
  15. Spending 80% of your time using low-yield resources

Source: Glen Cathey

10 Commandments of Internet candidate research

  1. Plan your search
  2. Define what you are targeting
  3. Know your search engine
  4. Use multiple search engines
  5. Search for people, not resumes
  6. Develop a search strategy
  7. Use synonymous concepts to expand your search
  8. Refine your search strategy
  9. Persist
  10. Search don’t surf

Source: Moises Lopez

7 Tips for Recruiting Generation Y

  1. Offer generous referral bonuses.
  2. Consider different geographies.
  3. Keep ‘em moving.
  4. Tlk 2 them.
  5. Get flexible.
  6. Community service.
  7. Think beyond the short term.

Source: Shelley Solheim

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