Recruiting Animal

The Sourcing Corner

A new blog by Moises Lopez .

Moises Lopez is the National Sourcing Manager for PDS Technical Services. He's started a new blog called The Sourcing Corner

Like Amybeth Hale, Moises believes that your recruiting team can't be its best without well-defined sourcing procedures which, he complains, most companies don't have.

He also lays out the key sourcing and recruiting skills:

* Understanding the jobs you are recruiting for.
* Knowing the companies that hire these people.
* Knowing the compensation packages in the industry.
* Knowledge of sourcing skills
* Knowing which sourcing technique to use in a specific setting (eg. advertising, competitor raiding).
* Knowing how to handle objections.

In my world, a sourcer does not call the potential candidates so handling objections would not be necessary. But I met Bill Vick in Toronto last week and he told me that in his vocabulary the names-finder is a researcher and a sourcer is what Shally Elvis Steckerl would call a networker. That's someone who handles the initial phone contact and "candidate development".

Search Engine Trend: Discover User Intent

Most Searches Lack Vital Info

The average search engine user types in 2.4 words and expects to get back an ordered list of 10 relevant results.

But, is the user a 4th grader writing a report for school? Or, a consultant searching for economic data related to a project?

Usually, the search engine doesn't have enough info to serve the user well.

Here are some solutions to this problem:

1. Verticalize. (Specialized Engine)

When someone uses Indeed or SimplyHired, the search engine "knows" that she is looking for want ads and nothing else.

2. Match (Recommendation Engine)

Aggregate Knowledge is a matching engine offering a "people who viewed this, also viewed that" perspective.

It tries to determine user intent from the behaviour of other people who have searched the same term. And most of us are familar with it from Amazon.

3. Personalize

In the upper right corner of the Google homepage is a link to the new personalized option.

It keeps a record of your past searches and matches your current search with them. Just as the Match Search Engine matches you with the searches of other people.

Source: Onotech. Reference: Joe Smith, Webpronews.com

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Canadian Headhunter

Simply Hired's Research Options

One-stop job-search shop?

Every listing on the SimplyHired job search engine contains a Who-Do-I Know-Button.

The button triggers a LinkedIn search for anyone at the hiring company who is in the person's network.

Now, the job-hunter has the opportunity to pester them.

SimplyHired also has a Research Salary Button that takes you to a PayScale.com salary survey for that type of job.

Steve Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter.com comments:

Just wait until candidates start to catch on that it is in their best interest to bypass applying through on-line postings at the corporate sites and job boards and instead working through the LinkedIn insider contacts so that those insiders will get employee referral bonuses.

via YME. See also: SimplyHired's Mashup Business Model

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Canadian Headhunter

Boolean Search Explained

In detail

The G-Man has a detailed explanation of Boolean search here.

With a special posting on searching for resumes here.

Source: Glenn Gutmacher, Advanced Online Recruiting

Technical Terminology Explained

Queen Shariba lifts the veil

techterms.org
techdictionary.com
pcwebopaedia.com
whatis.com
webopedia.com
netlingo.com/
techweb.com/encyclopedia
acronymfinder.com
techweb.com/encyclopedia
semcoenterprises.com
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
http://whatis.techtarget.com
http://josh.tierranet.com/glossary.htm

From Sourcers Unleashed

Sourcing, Jenna Style

How the Microsoft Soccer Mom Finds Her People

* MySpace
* Facebook
* LinkedIn
* Yahoo 360
* 43 People
* Friendster
* Tribe
* Orkut

Source: Microsoft Jobs Blog

Human Pages

New Social Networking Tool

HumanPages is a People Directory like LinkedIn.
To keep out the spam they make people pay to contact you.

You set the rate. $1.00 US is the minimum.
If you like, half of it will be go to your favourite charity.

via Sacred Cow Dung

David Perry's Research Staple

Gorilla Headhunter reveals key research tool

Zoominfo is my research staple. (Source, Recruiting.com)

Wow, straight from a super-recruiter.

Of course, Zoom is more appropriate for some kinds of searches than others.
A lot of people aren't on the net and won't be listed here.

And here's a testimonial of sorts from a librarian.
Richie Ackerman at the Science Library Pad.

Canadian Headhunter

Corporate Employee Directories

Outdated Tool Claims Sourcer

G-Man claims that the corporate employee phone directories you can buy are over a year old.

He says they are being replaced by online networking sites like Jigsaw, Zoom and LinkedIn.

Maybe so, but a year old can still be useful because the names are still there. You still have to find them but, at least, you know what you're looking for.

Directory Vendors:
Corporate Sales Leads, Elusive Leads , MGroup.

Source: Advanced Online Recruiting

Canadian Headhunter

Argali, Phone Directory Search Engine

Searches many directories at once

Apparently, different online telephone directories return different results
So, Argali searches a bunch of them at the same time..

It's FREE, it's a desktop application and can be downloaded here.

I haven't used it.

via Maureen Sharib, Sourcers Unleashed