Archive for February, 2011

How to Use LinkedIn’s Advanced Operators as Search Agents

Tweet   In January 2009, I wrote a feature about LinkedIn’s advanced operators. Two years later, I am still surprised that remarkably few people leverage the ability to bypass LinkedIn’s advanced search interface and “hand-code” search strings. Before I demonstrate how you can use LinkedIn’s advanced operators as search agents, here is a quick refresher [...]

LinkedIn

Creating or Selecting Effective Sourcing Training: SourceCon NYC

Tweet Have you received any formal training on how to source candidates? If yes – what kind of training was it? What was the format? What was the focus – syntax, techniques, sites? Who delivered it – a third party trainer or an internal resource? How was the content delivered? Was it effective? Were you tested or [...]

SourceCon, Training Sourcers and Recruiters

What is Lean Just-in-Time Recruiting?

Tweet The process of identifying an organization’s talent needs and identifying, acquiring, and retaining talent for those needs is essentially human capital supply chain management. A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving something of value (a product, a service, or a person) from a source [...]

Lean/JIT Recruiting