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100+ Free Sourcing & Recruiting Tools, Guides, and Resources

Tweet   It’s been a LONG time coming, but I finally got around to updating my free sourcing & recruiting tools, guides and resources page where I now keep a current list of the best of my work all in one place for easy bookmarking and reference. You can find it here on my main [...]

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How to Effectively Source Talent via Social Media & Networks

Tweet Sourcing talent via social media requires an entirely different mindset than sourcing with other forms of human capital data, such as resumes/CV’s, employee directories, conference attendee lists, etc. Back in early 2009, one of only 2 guest posts ever co-written on my site was published on the topic of non-standard descriptors and the role [...]

Best Practices, Dark Matter, Facebook, Google Plus, How-To's, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Recruiting, Sourcing, Sourcing Challenges, Twitter

Will 2011 be a Big Year for Recruiters and Social Media?

Tweet I read a brief sidebar article in the November 1, 2010 Fortune magazine that detailed the hottest jobs of 2010 and I was pleased with what I saw, and I thought you would be too. Apparently, Fortune worked with “LinkedIn’s top data crunchers” to pull some exclusive information about the job titles that saw [...]

Job Search, Lean/JIT Recruiting, Social Media, Social Networking

Social Media and Recruiting – Beyond the Hype

Tweet I’m very much an anti-hype, anti-bandwagon person. I neither like to nor want to get caught in the undertow of the emotional rush associated with being excited about something that nearly everyone else seems to be excited about, where everyone celebrates the new and “cool factor” with little-to-no critical thought. When that next bright and shiny object comes along, [...]

Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Recruiting, Twitter

Don’t Be A Sourcing Snob

Tweet Are You a Sourcing Snob? Ask yourself these questions: Is a candidate identified on LinkedIn intrinsically “better” than a candidate sourced from Monster? Is candidate sourced by cold calling inherently “better” than a candidate sourced from a job posting on Careerbuilder? Does it really matter where a great candidate comes from? I continue to see well respected [...]

Candidate Quality, Job Boards, Myths and Misconceptions, Social Media, Sourcing and Recruiting

Searching Social Media Requires Outside-the-Box Thinking

Tweet Non-Standard Descriptors and the Role They Play in Social Media Article by Valerie Scarsellato, Sr. Sourcer at Intel Corporation Co-written by Glen Cathey Sourcing has always been a significant component in the recruiting lifecycle. However, in recent years, sourcing has taken a giant step into the forefront and has become recognized as the solid foundation at [...]

How-To's, Social Media, Social Networking, Sourcing and Recruiting