Reviews

People search engines vary in capabilities and features. Some are certainly better than others but all move to serve the same purpose; to get you the information you are searching for. What makes them different? What makes one engine better than another? Read about Whoozy and our thoughts about it here.

Advanced searching with LinkedIn’s UI has gotten better. The features are mostly the same, but the layout has made life a lot easier. This coupled with a few added deatires have made sourcing with LinkedIn easier and more effective for recruiters that may not be overly advanced with search.

LinkedIn is constantly changing and it’s our job to help bring that to you. Readjusting your profile to better fit your needs seems like something that should’ve been integrated 6 years ago, but the truth is it wasn’t. It is now and this may have an effect of the Jobseeker as well as the recruiter

Navigate your job search and career advancement as you would if you were a day trader – watch as many cable news economic panelists as possible and do so regularly. Various corporate Quarterly reports and stock patterns provide a glimpse into what industries are flat, in growth mode

It’s new (Released this morning 12/16/09) and a part of a bigger project, but Wordstream’s Free Keyword Niche Finder looks to be a promising tool that is 100% free to use. Recruiters can and should take advantage of this tool to help intensify their information gathering during and after the discovery phase of the search.

Video is compelling to users and if used properly could be a great addition to you recruitment plan. Thoughtfully leveraging video in your properly built twitter stream can result in big return. In fact Twitter itself is considering adding video in relatime tweet fashion.

Fast moving development win over many users and creates a successful app. Tweetdeck has taken that approach and has since won over the vast majority of the Twitter market. It’s quick, convenient and serves a real purpose. It’s an organization tool that helps recruiters better manage their time on social media. Check out my top 3 integrations.

Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web…

“The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense.” @nk on the Twitter blog

Very cool, Very innovative and developed for 3 sets of users. The Job Seeeker, The Corporation and Yes, you the Recruiter! TwitterJobSearch is fast, slick, and uses some very cool natural language processing. – The full review is posted on RecruitingBlogs.com

If it’s free, it’s for me. And free this is. Sourcing budgets have been slashed but most hiring managers really don’t care about that. What they do care about is that you can provide them with some top quality talent in a fast and efficient manner. Over the next few posts I’ll be sharing some free and low cost ways to enhance your game when sourcing. Up first, Free-For-Recruiters

Having the ability to source and uncover top talent is crucial to your success. Sometimes the tools we use come from non-traditional means.

So, here is another great tool that I’ve been using now for a few weeks that I wanted to share with everyone. It’s called Yotify

I had two questions come through this past week so I wanted to share them with you all. In this post I am asked to address my top 20 or so web 2.0 tools.

So it took a little while but now that the world is hooked on twitter, I felt the need to tweet, I mean blog about a fairly new app that has been on the rise. It’s called TweetDeck.