Recruiter Talk

With no true search power, Facebook can be a recruiters biggest time waster if not used properly. After you decide if Facebook is even relevent to your search you need to know where and how you can search to see results. Ad sourcing is one way.

Though essential, email can be a productivity killer. Similar to leveraging social networks to research connections for business, sales or recruiting your inbox can become overwhelming, especially if it is not properly setup to field incoming and track outgoing messages. I wrote about this a while back, but take a look at some new features and more reasons why I love Xobni.

LinkedIn is not just a place to smack up a profile anymore. It’s much more than that. It’s your resume and your point of reference for most employers you will come in contact with. Most recruiters lean on LinkedIn like it’s the only thing left in the world. So how can you maximize your profiles potential?

It’s really a simple process. Nose down sourcing is really another way of saying “Information gathering.” It’s not rocket science. It’s really more about taking the obvious and taking it to the extreme.

It’s not mandatory that you become a wizard of Boolean to master online search. You do however need to get organized and work efficiently. Here’s the first in a series on how to get efficient with Google.

Need some help following #TNL? TweetGrid is a powerful Twitter Search Dashboard that allows you to search for up to 9 different topics, events, converstations, hashtags, phrases, people, groups, etc in real-time.

Ryan Holmes is a gent and he’s also one sharp guy. His model is simple and he’s had the good fortune of making people buy into his ideas. He is the CEO/Co-founder of Hootsuite and we spoke today to cover a lot of great things.

LinkedIn is getting quirky with their search capability but here is a nice little trick that was shared with me from @kdaprile at #TRUUSA this past week in Madison. With the ability to now submit news into your LinkedIn feed you have the opportunity to share your companies news, information and your opening in mass and in a non spammy way.

It was all about 2 letters. U and N. There’s been a movement going across the globe referred to as the Unconference. Not just for recruiting but nearly ever sector has them. This one just happened to be about recruiting among some other things…

Managing the recruiting process is tough; especially when everyone is breathing down your neck to use social tools. This is ok, but if you don’t properly manage the process you will see no significant return and fail miserably. Here is the second piece to recruiting with Facebook event and lists.

A lot of recruiters say that they recruit on Facebook, but I’ve never really seen any strong results from most of those recruiters. Facebook events are a great way to incorporate your Facebook profile with recruiting and sharing your company’s recruitment message.

Weekly Recruiting Blitz of information that we found to be extremly great reads. This week we are featuring some great articles on social media, recruitment and some acquisitions that recently took place. Enjoy.

Firefox is my browser of choice. Why? Just because I think it’s really cool. It’s fast and the add-on’s are phenomenal. For a recruiter the day can clip away, here are 10 must have add-on’s that I recommend to help your day to day recruiting game.

With more changes on the horizon, new upgrades to the sourcing tool @referyes makes it a more viable sourcing tool for recruiters looking to track, manage and integrate their sourcing activity. Referyes allows you to cover the open web, social networks, track down email addresses, universities and more.

Another good tool to check out for recruiting and sourcing profiles via twitter. IT’s not the perfect storm but it does have good potential and provides some great search capabilities.