Archive for December, 2008

Basic Boolean Search Operators and Query Modifiers Explained

Tweet   Basic Boolean Operators Explained No, those aren’t my hands. I never cease to be amazed by what you can find on the Internet and what people take pictures of. Now that I have your attention, this post is going to focus on the basic Boolean search operators and search modifiers symbols and will not [...]

Boolean, Boolean 101, Boolean Logic

Lean Recruiting: No Forecasts or Talent Pipelines Required!

Tweet Lean Recruiting: No Forecasts or Talent Pipelines Required! This is a follow up post to this article I wrote on Lean/JIT recruiting, which I circulated as a dicussion topic through a few of the larger staffing and recruiting groups on LinkedIn. I recieved some interesting responses, some of which led me to believe that perhaps [...]

Lean/JIT Recruiting

Boolean Contest!

Tweet Boolean Contest – come one, come all! Irina Shamaeva and I were chatting a few weeks back and she asked me if I thought a contest focused on Booolean strings would be a good idea. You can imagine my reaction – “Of course!” She thought offering prizes of ResumeFinder or ResumeGrabber would be a great idea, [...]

Boolean, Internet Sourcing

Master Boolean Logic and Raise Your Game!

Tweet When it comes to golf, what’s more important – the clubs or the golfer? It should be obvious that it is not the clubs, but the technique and skill of the person wielding the clubs.  Tiger Woods could play better than most people even with 20 year old clubs found at a yard sale.  If you own a [...]

Boolean

Lean Sourcing and Recruiting: JIT Candidate Acquisition

Tweet Lean Sourcing and Recruiting: JIT Candidate Acquisition According to globally accepted supply chain management principles (such as those of Lean and the Toyota Production System), building and maintaining product inventories is wasteful. In an ideal state, companies would acquire the right material, at the right time, at the right place, and in the exact amount.  This is [...]

Lean/JIT Recruiting