Recruiting Animal

The Phone Sourcing Newbie

featuring: Maureen Sharib and Pam

 

Look for hiring trends on Linkedin

From: CareerSherpa (edited)

Josh Bersin says: When you research a company, check past and present employees. Look for patterns or trends in where employees came from.

Some companies tend to have a pattern for hiring similar people from similar backgrounds and experience or companies.

This could indicate how difficult it may be to get in for someone who is not from the same groups.

 

Jeff Newman: How I Source

From: Jeff Newman (edited)

One of my favorite sourcing techniques is the targeted e-mail.   Let me walk you thru a campaign:

Step 1: Use an X-Ray Search to target a person.

Here’s one I use on GitHub. site:github.com (“front end” | Javascript) “joined on” “public activity” “San Francisco” -tab.activity

Step 2: Look them up on LinkedIn

Step 3: Communicate via social media

Comment on their blog. Tweet at them, Facebook friend them, find them on Quora, About.me --- reach them wherever there might be some non-professional info about the person.

Step 4: Send an e-mail that’s personal, funny, attention getting, original.

 

Dark Matter on Linkedin

Glen Cathey says there are thousands of profiles which a standard LinkedIn search will not display.

The reason: they don't contain common keywords or they have skimpy, incomplete profiles.

1. You're looking for a software engineer with strong Java/J2EE experience.

You can search for “Java” but a lot of software engineers with Java experience do not mention “Java” in their profiles.

Proof: search J2EE -Java.

2. You’re looking for CPA’s. If you search CPA but not C.P.A you're going to miss a lot of people.

Proof: search "C.P.A." -CPA

You will also miss the people who list themselves as accountants but don't mention CPA or C.P.A Certified Public Accountant.

Proof: search Accountant -(CPA OR "C.P.A." OR "Certified Public Accountant").

Do you think an accountant at Deloitte, PwC, KPMG or Ernst & Young isn’t a CPA?

3. Search a current title of: (“software engineer” OR developer OR programmer).

Exclude the major technologies:

-(“java/j2ee” OR peoplesoft OR perl OR oracle OR SAP OR java OR j2EE OR .Net OR C# OR C++) in the keyword search field.

You will find software engineers at IBM, Accenture and Google who will not appear if you search the common keywords.

4. To find some people you have to limit your search to bland titles and likely companies.

Read the whole thing here.

Is Voicemail Dead?

Sandra Mccartt via Sourcers Unleashed

What I'm seeing reported is that employees [at Coke] were given the option to keep or cut voice mail. Only 6% of employees opted to keep it. Those under 30 prefer text messages or emails.

I find this to be true in my office. They hate leaving voice mails, waiting to hear back, missing the call and playing "phone tag" when a text to a candidate seems to be responded to with more detail quicker.

While I prefer voice mail or the phone, listening to long winded voice mail from people who are not clear with their name or number is a button pressing time waster.

One of my pet peeves is sending an email request to a candidate on file to determine availability or update on salary only to have them call and bleat in my ear for 15 minutes or leave 5 voice messages in a row if I don't answer.

For background see: Coke Disconnects Voicemail at Headquarters.

 

X-RAY SEARCHING BASICS

From: Tom Woolnough - http://onthesource.blogspot.ca/…/x-ray-searching-basics.html

X-Ray searching is a term denoting a technique for searching LinkedIn (or other similar publicly available databases) via search engines such as Google or Bing.

The overwhelming majority of LinkedIn profiles are public, which leaves them open to being indexed by any search engine for finding using familiar Boolean search techniques.

Step 2: Build up your search string. The basic building blocks will be:

site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub | inurl:in) -intitle:directory -inurl:groups -recruiter

You then need to enter your keywords; in this example, let us try a very simple search for an iPhone developer with some kind of Agile experience.

site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub | inurl:in) -intitle:directory -inurl:groups -recruiter iphone (agile | tdd)

Next; location. A little different to a standard Boolean search, but only in ways which make it easier for us. Not too long ago, LinkedIn added the country code to the beginning of their URLs which makes for easier filtering; as a quick example;

site:uk.linkedin.com (inurl:pub | inurl:in) -intitle:directory -inurl:groups -recruiter iphone (agile | tdd) "London United Kingdom"

HOW TO FIND DARK MATTER ON LINKEDIN

From: Tom Woolnough: http://onthesource.blogspot.ca/…/stripping-linkedin-profile…

Dark Matter, as Glen Cathey describes it, are the thousands of profiles which a standard LinkedIn search will not bring up.

These profiles are missed by basic searches because they don't contain the right keywords or they have very skimpy, incomplete profiles (often on purpose).

Here's how to solve that problem. Get the profile of a candidate you know to be a superstar. Copy his job title and past company into a search, and run through all those doing that job.

The real gems here are the ones with no information filled in on their profile; the kind you would never have found with your standard search, because by doing any kind of search other than the name of the company you are excluding them entirely.

 

A SOURCING APP - TALENT XRAY

http://www.careercloud.com/talent-xray/
COST: $2.99 at iTunes and Google Play

Chris Russell took a few boolean search strings and wrapped an interface around them so you don't have to write them.

Talent Xray is not for advanced boolean searches.

For Linkedin & Twitter searches he uses Bing. For G+, Google.

You don't have to log into those sites. Talent Xray lets you enter keywords, then passes the query thru to Bing or Google to deliver search results.

For the best experience just use a few keywords.
All searches can be saved for later or shared via email.

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  Teresa Reyes Bustamante I've used this app for awhile and have been quite pleased. You're right in that the more simple your entries, the better the results. I snagged it when it was still free. Another great app is Yatedo. Try it on for size... Happy huntin', y'all!

Jeremy Roberts on Diversity Sourcing

Our good friend, Jeremy Roberts, Head of Sourcecon, was on The Recruiting Animal Show on July 16, 2014. Here's an 8 minute clip.

PLAY: Jeremy Roberts on Diversity Sourcing 14 07 16

How to find women on Linkedin. - Glen Cathy on Diversity Sourcing

Glen Cathey's Sourcing Prezi

Here's the whole show.

Jeremy advises us to add a list of relevant names to a boolean search for the other relevant information. You can see an illustration below.

 

 

Facebook vs LinkedIN

From: Sourcecon

On Facebook my first result is Cuong Vu, Software Engineer at Amazon.com

If I go to LinkedIn and search for Cuong Vu with the same search terms I get no results.
Let’s take out Seattle, WA: no Cuong Vu.
Let’s take out the Title and search just for Cuong Vu at Amazon, nothing, no results.