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…
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…
Top 10 Free Ways to Advertise Your Job Openings
- Blog
- SimplyHired.com
- Indeed.com
- Linked In
- Business Cards
- SEO
- Your Organization’s Career Site
- Your employees
- The reputation of your organization
Source: RecruitingBlogs.com
Using Twitter for Employment Branding? 15 Things Recruiters Can Tweet About…
- Employee programs
- Link to blog posts, articles and other thought leadership pieces
- Post photos from your corporate events
- Company press releases
- Link to your job postings
- Interview/selection process.
- Bad candidates
- Good candidates
- Events and appearances
- Offers and new hires
- Career advice
- Did someone else mention your company in a tweet?
- Non-work activities
- Other digital networking tools
- 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…
Hidden Talent Pools
A great presentation courtesy of Glen Cathey who publishes Boolean Black Belt…
13 Reasons for Poor Sales Hires by Hard Working Sales Managers
- Do not use multiple sources for finding job candidates.
- Source for candidates just before they need a position filled.
- Rush through hiring without a multistage process … interview and then hire (a pipe process instead of a funnel).
- Have not analyzed and do not know the top 6 personality traits necessary in top performers for industry sales competence.
- Do shoot-from-the-hip non-structured interviews without questions designed to discover competencies, important personality traits, and character attributes.
- Recruit personality traits and sales skills over character values like honesty, personal responsibility, and hard work ethic.
- Do not use a validated personality profile.
- Sell their company to candidates during MOST of the interview time. They even sell themselves on the candidate.
- Talk more than the candidate does during an in-depth interview.
- Do not involve other employees during final interviews.
- Save candidates when they struggle with a question – sometimes even giving them the answer.
- Hire candidates when only their instinct says yes.
- Hire candidates when their instinct says no.
Source: Lance Cooper
Top 15 Common Secondary Sourcing Mistakes
- Over analyzing resumes
- Running overly generic/basic searches
- Making assumptions about candidates from their resumes
- Not spending at least 10 minutes search strategy before you start
- Seeing each resume only as a potential match for the position you’re working on
- Assuming search finds all qualified candidates
- Searching only resumes posted within 30 days when searching major job boards
- Not calling candidates that appear to be under- or over-qualified
- Submitting the first 2 -3 candidates you find that fit your job/hiring profile
- Thinking that the major online job boards have poor quality candidates
- Thinking that after searching you’ve found all the candidates
- Relying solely or heavily on title-based searches
- Not using the NOT operator
- Only using skill/tech terms
- Spending 80% of your time using low-yield resources
Source: Glen Cathey
10 Commandments of Internet candidate research
- Plan your search
- Define what you are targeting
- Know your search engine
- Use multiple search engines
- Search for people, not resumes
- Develop a search strategy
- Use synonymous concepts to expand your search
- Refine your search strategy
- Persist
- Search don’t surf
Source: Moises Lopez
7 Tips for Recruiting Generation Y
- Offer generous referral bonuses.
- Consider different geographies.
- Keep ‘em moving.
- Tlk 2 them.
- Get flexible.
- Community service.
- Think beyond the short term.
Source: Shelley Solheim




