Sourcing in 2012…It’s not what you think….

Over the past month I’ve been asked several times by different individuals, what are my top 3 sites for sourcing and what are the tools I would recommend.  Got money to burn?  Think I’ve got nothing to do? I don’t know.  I’m happy to chat with you all you want, but I don’t know that I’m necessarily going to give you the answer you are looking for, every sourcer is different, every recruiting budget is different. Here’s the deal.  There’s no rote answer.  You give me a laptop and an internet connection, and I’m going to find you people.  That’s my day, every day.  In my world, that is the world of the third party researcher, I deal with a variety of different positions.  I have ones I love, and ones I hate, but they all pay the bills.  I do not have a set list of sites I go to for each search.  I do keep track of past performance and am aware of what resources and search strings produce results regularly.  I’ve got bookmarks and file folders and can easily throw these winners back into play at any time.  The reality is the internet is fluid and new resources appear all the time…I would not be doing my job if I didn’t recognize I need to check for these with every search. My day would be done, and quite dull, if I could get every single hire off of LinkedIn.  Don’t get me wrong, I do get a lot of hires off of LinkedIn.  And I do like to test it.  But because it relies so heavily on user generated content, sometimes I’m better off generating a name first via lists or directories or industry articles.  Or maybe I’m sifting through a company’s website, annual report, Hoover’s or ZoomInfo.  And no, I’m not doing that click by click….there are automation tools for that.  But if I had to, I could do it that way.  I’ll dabble in Beknown….because every once in a while it yields interesting search results and I do want a call of Facebook hires in 2012.  But so much of where I’m going to go and what I’m going to do is determined in a 30 minute strategy call with our lead recruiter.  That’s vitally important.  Gathering information, running search strings, shooting information back and forth that’s critical.  And this is where my most important tool comes into play, if I didn’t have it, my work day would be completely hamstringed and I’m quite certain I’d crash our mail server; it’s……… Google Docs . Did you know Google Docs is searchable? If you’re retaining candidate information in there, it can function as a mini ATS.  And did you know that if you’re using site: to search LinkedIn via Google or Bing because you’ve got a thrifty recruiting budget, well I’ll be darned if you aren’t going to see different results for the same searches.  And if you save those searches in different documents, or spreadsheets, you can combine them into one massive big daddy spreadsheet?  That’s searchable.  From the main google docs search bar as well as within the document itself? So if you’re absolutely sure you’ve seen Joe Knickerbocker before…you can figure out if you have or not in this pre-ATS tracking system. And then there’s calibration….and re-calibration.  Where we, the Lead Recruiter, the research team and I,  really hone in on what’s generating the best results, where should we focus our research hours and where should we call it a day. Again…Google….Docs and now Google Chat comes into play.  When I’m working with a Lead Recruiter I don’t have to coordinate a webex or livemeeting….we can just jump into a document and simultaneously update.  And all of our recruiting team can track me down when I’ve shut down everything else to get my head in the game, because they know now I’ll be in Google Docs and with one click they’re asking me a super quick question via Chat. So while I could suggest you invest at least 30 minutes a day honing your search skills on Google, Bing and Devilfinder (either do some training or find a mentor) or investigating tools like Scavado, The Boolean Bar or Broadlook, I have to tell you that the key to my success in 2012 will be Google Docs and the team I work with, the people I work with are so strong in recruiting and dissecting every opportunity we staff, that the rest is easy.  Those are the things I need to be successful in the TPR world.  The rest is icing on the cake.

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Are GOOGLE trying to hijack the word ZEITGEIST?

When I Think of the word Zeitgeist as I instantly think of the series of documentaries chronicling the reality of our times. The doco’s pull the curtains back and reveal how the world really works and what is truly happening behind the scenes. It has become an internet sensation and is one of the most searched terms on the internet.

Today I stumbled across this:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/index.html

I think in virtue of its popularity Google are now using the word to describe a new service/product they are working on. Personally I think this is wrong as it will surely lead eventually lead to people becoming confused and many who haven’t yet seen Zeitgeist may search it and become lost somehow ending up with some sort of Google net trends info.

Are Google working with the insiders at some level in order to try and take the Zeitgeist movement out of the spotlight as it is surely ruffling some feathers high in the food chain somewhere or are they simply trying to capitalise on the popularity of this word?

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Three Chickadees Announces its New, Fun and Stylish Line of Ribbon …

The Classifind job search site displays dynamically updated listings from 4 of the 5 major job boards in Australia as well as several smaller niche job search boards. This enables a user to look for employment options from all these sites in one place making the process of … SoftwareProjects Inc (SoftwareProjects.com), the industry’s leading full-service Internet marketing firm , announced today that they have submitted the 1000000th lead to its merchant partners. …

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Online Recruitment – UK Draft Code of Practice

A draft British standard for online recruitment has been released. As per the document, the standard gives recommendations for online recruitment and is applicable to all methods of candidate attraction, screening, storage and selection using internet-based technology up to the point of acceptance of offer. The standard codifies good practice for delivery of online recruitment (direct or outsourced) and identifies the roles and responsibilities of those involved. The standard seeks to encourage increased transparency and improvement of the candidate experience.

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IE9 Jump Lists

Last week, Microsoft released a beta version of the new Internet Explorer called IE9. I am not a big fan of IE, but I actually can’t contain my excitement over some of the new features.

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Linkedin – Connecting With Professionals and Powering Conversations

In line with yesterday’s post, Clifford Rosenberg sheds light on the progress of Linkedin in Australia. The Australian recruitment industry has been rapidly evolving given the dynamic changes in the economic and social environment. In the early days of the Internet, we saw a shift from traditional recruitment mediums, and a rise in adoption of

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Linkedin Juggernaut Rolls On

Jeff Weiner, CEO of Linkedin, wants the company to be synonymous with ‘talent’ just as ‘Internet Search’ is for Google. In an interview with Techcrunch, he talks about past achievements and sheds light on future plans. Not surprisingly, Linkedin’s recruitment products are the largest and fastest growing part of the business. However, Jeff is careful

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Job Boards – a dead end business strategy according to Geoff Jennings

Last night I listened to the most intriguing conversation between several industry leaders relating to the future of the Job Board future in Australia.

What I found particularly interesting was an argument put forward by Geoff Jennings that suggested that the BBS system (ie, the job board model as it stood today was a flawed model moving forward into the future and was ultimately destined for failure).

The interviewer was somewhat cavalier and dismissive with Geoff’s thoughts and I felt that overall Geoff deserved more respect especially considering his previous career working for Careerone in such a senior capacity.

In terms of tools like LinkedIN and other networking products, there is no doubt of the social advantage they create in relation to creating quality networks within the professional market. In fact, networks is what it’s all about and LinkedIN’s incredible growth is a sure sign that this is where the market is heading. However, there remains one simple and single flaw to the model of LinkedIn that can never be overcome. It is the following statement –

“He’ll work well with you because.,..”

In truth, the job board portals serve their place. That place is essentially for satisfying mid to low level positions that are not mission critical or business dependent vacancies. In fact, any client who has a vacancy which is easily filled shouldn’t waste their time or money on a recruiter when they only need to spend $250.00 on Seek. However, the value of a good search or recruitment consultant will never be replaced by tools like LinkedIN, Seek, Mycareer or Careerone. Why? Simple – let me explain.

A good recruiter has a strong network and “knows” implicitly who is good and who is not. He/She becomes a partner to his/her client with the intent on helping find the very best candidate in the market. In short, this value cannot be replaced by pro-active candidates looking to apply for jobs or happily accepting LinkedIn invitations.

In terms of Geoff’s argument, I’m not so sure. What I will say is that if your business model is simply advertising, drawing a short list and setting up interviews, you don’t really have a marketable business model.

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New: Company "Follow" Feature. Thank You, LinkedIn…

LinkedIn – thank you so much! It's not even my birthday but you've just made my life so much easier… I can follow company pages and their updates now? For free? And you'll send me daily updates? Yes! And companies can't block me like some do on Twitter? Love it some more. Okay, okay. So why is it that I'm so happy? Well, I've been navigating LinkedIn for a number of years now, and pretty much thought I had down to a science how to keep an eye on competitors. I was delighted when I could RSS my Linkedin updates and will admit that was becoming a bit cumbersome to scroll through, but you've just made my life blissfully easy with Company “Follow” feature. No more will I need to queue up competitors one by one. I've set it up so I get updates daily… to my inbox. I see who's coming, who's going, who's been promoted. I can get a handle on trends and can certainly see if anyone's cherry picking employees from certain organizations.  I'm getting obvious detail on what departments are hiring and where there is none. I know this is all user generated information… but damn, people are certainly providing a lot of information! All in the name of networking. This is pretty sweet.   And yes, I decided not to follow my typical “bull in a china shop” mentality and hide my member activity feed for the time being.  I thought I'd make these companies work for it to figure out if I'm cyberstalking them.  It's not that hard, they can just check their profile and click on “followers”.  And yeah, I did mention they can't block me, right? What it really means though?  I've heard rumblings from HR Pros about how they don't want their employees on LinkedIn – there's too much company information there for competitors to poach. They forbid references, even in a social media environment. Will this add more fuel to that fire? Will companies demand a block button? Or the dropping of the follow feature? Or the option to blitz their company off of the site? We'll see. But for recruiters, for the time being, this is great news for us. Hat tip to Mike Merrill for breaking this news… Editor's Note  – Kelly Dingee is a  professional stalker  Technical Writer/Sourcing Researcher for AIRS/A RightThing Company. Prior to joining AIRS, her experience includes sourcing for Thales Communications, Inc., and Internet recruitment for Acterna (now known as JDSU).  Follow her on Twitter  and get the lowdown on what's going on each day in sourcing – she's a Twitter machine. Or, Kelly's gracious with her ninja sourcing skills, so drop her a line anytime at kellydingee@airs.rightthinginc.com.

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Sloppy Sourcing Remedies.

Part of my day job is research.  I read a lot about sourcing and the problems recruiters are facing with it. And one of the biggest problems I'm seeing? This idea that you can throw every keyword known to mankind into a search string and it will yield the results you need. Let's review a couple of things to eliminate Sloppy Sourcing. Boolean logic boils down to three primary commands: AND, OR, and NOT. Things have changed in the 12 years that I've been dedicated to sourcing online.  For one thing, no longer do we need to write AND or NOT in all capital letters when using any of the primary search engines.  AND is implied by a space on search engines and NOT is the “-”.  OR, well you can write capital “OR” or you can use the Pipe symbol. (Look at the key above your enter key, it's this “|”).  You'll find I prefer “OR”.  I also prefer to use Parentheses (i.e. brackets for you Brits) to open and close my OR statements.  Do I have to? No. But I prefer to because I think it makes more sense and when I proof search strings, it's easier to discern errors. And I can admit it, I make typos just like the best of them. Now let's talk about keywords.  If I want biographical documents, I can generate several different keywords to accommodate that need.  Same goes for the names of people (think roster, directory, attendee, etc).  If I am looking for skill sets, I can create those keyword lists as well.  What I should not do… and this is where I see confusion… is combine the lists.  Here's what I mean – in a very basic Boolean context, this is how you can construct search strings: Biographical documents : (resume OR cv OR vitae) Lists : (directory OR roster OR list) Skillsets : (java OR j2ee OR javascript OR jsp) Let's take that one step further.  If ideally you need a java developer, and the candidate could have the title programmer or analyst instead of developer, then what you don't want to do , is this: (java OR programmer OR developer) You do want to do this : (java OR j2ee OR javascript OR jsp) (developer OR programmer OR analyst) Keep your like terms together. Go back to that logical thinking. Now your search can get more complex as you start to integrate “field operators”, aka intitle: or inurl:. They're great for focusing a search because they search the title of a document and the url of a document.  And you need to think logically here as well.  More often than not, your Java Developer is going to name his resume a resume, his profile a profile, his “about me” page on his blog “about me”.  He is not going to name it “javascript”.  So writing this search string: (intitle:javascript OR inurl:javascript) is not the best use of your time.  Instead, try this: (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume OR intitle:cv OR inurl:cv OR intitle:vitae OR inurl:vitae) (java OR j2ee OR javascript OR jsp) See the difference?  Now I know we can take all of those searches further.  But let's not put the cart before the horse.  Work on understanding your search strings, make sure they make sense, that you're comparing apples to apples and not apples to asparagus.   Editor's Note  – Kelly Dingee is a  professional stalker  Technical Writer/Sourcing Researcher for AIRS/A RightThing Company. Prior to joining AIRS, her experience includes sourcing for Thales Communications, Inc., and Internet recruitment for Acterna (now known as JDSU).  Follow her on Twitter  and get the lowdown on what's going on each day in sourcing – she's a Twitter machine. Or, Kelly's gracious with her ninja sourcing skills, so drop her a line anytime at kellydingee@airs.rightthinginc.com.

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The truth is, nobody knows anything.

By Chris Muktar (Founder – Wikijob.co.uk) Let me start by saying I’m a guest writer, so please be nice! One of the things I have noticed lately is how the recruitment industry has changed not recently but over centuries. In biblical times, I imagine jobs were advertised by word of mouth, then signs for the literate, likely followed by job noticeboards and then local press, finally culminating with the internet in the last decade and a half, and moving towards social media in the next. One of the most interesting problems we face when trying to sell social media is selling the concept. It’s rare that a client actually expects that their social media campaign will generate any applications. Many are just sticking their toes in the water and seeing what happens. We tend to find that companies spend only 5-10% of their budget on new or innovative media, while…

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The Mobile Age Cometh

So, I’m thinking of getting an i-phone..they’re pretty cool and being able to access the web wherever I want, whenever I want, is a big attraction, especially since my laptop packed up. Also, being free from the red light of my work blackberry, which doubles as my personal mobile phone will surely be healthy. I’m not alone in my desire for a smart phone, in fact, it would seem at long last, we just may be entering the ‘Mobile Age’ – the perennial prediction comes to bear…. Mary Meeker in her presentation at the Web 2.0 event- convinced me the mobile is all set to be the main device for web access. What’s more from past analysis of technology computing trends, the mobile age is all set to be TEN times more utilised that desktop Internet computing: What does this mean for the world of recruitment? Employers should be considering…

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THEO PAPHITIS: Millionaire, Dragon, rubbish employer, hypocrite & Social Media dufus

Last week I read an article from the Daily Mail (a link I followed I don’t hesitate to add) from the inimitable Theo Paphitis entitled “Why ALL bosses should copy me and ban Facebook from the workplace”. I think it’s fair to say that it wound me up. REALLY wound me up. It’s true that many articles I happen across from that “journalistic (and I use the expression in it’s loosest sense) stable” do, and that why I try to give it a wide berth – but this one got me fired. His key points were: the internet is responsible for “an orgy of self-indulgence and exhibitionism”. Ryman stopped all time-wasting by imposing a “non-draconian” ban on ALL websites that couldn’t be justified as useful for work. The internet has undermined dialogue in so many ways. Online socialising (unchecked) could cause the end of the world – or something like…

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As Alex tells us all about the latest ‘wave’ of advertising below – I thought we could end the week with some stats from attending the recent EIAA conference (European Interactive Advertising Association). – Total Internet spend in 1999 came to £40m, which was seen back then as massive growth. Ten years later, we’re now at £3.3 billion! – Ten years ago the three largest reaching sites in the UK were MSN, Yahoo and Freeserve! (remember Freeserve? and where is Google?) – Today, 45% of our Internet time is spent on just 10 sites, meaning the thousands of remaining domains have to fight it out for our remianing online time. Today our audience are’media multi-taskers’ – consuming more than one media at a time – e.g. surfing online while watching TV etc etc In terms of the incredible transformation of the communications landscape, I really liked Evan Williams sentiment, on…

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