All Blog Posts Tagged 'Sourcing' (11)

True or False - is tech hiring slowing down?

I believe the answer is both, true and false. There is undeniably a slowdown in VC funding in the Bay Area as of late 2015 with all the unicorns and even giants falling in valuations due to “tech corrections”. Fundraising is not as easy as it was…

How To Recruit On LinkedIn, Fast, Without Breaking The Bank

Recently I discussed the slowdown in tech hiring, which is already reflected in today’s longer and more difficult hiring cycles as hiring managers…

What's the big deal?

On June 13, 2016, three big brothers got together and spun the roulette. The Microsoft house took the gamble, and the LinkedIn players got their huge payout. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella, LinkedIn's CEO …

It is typically the case that a recruiter will find a good potential candidate on the internet but struggles to find any way of making direct contact with them. This is often the case when finding someone on LinkedIn where their contact details are not available.

In this video I talk about a number of different ways to make contact including how to message on LinkedIn for…

Evolution of Recruitment – The People Industry

Recruitment is a process of attracting, selecting and placing the right candidate for the right job at the given time and economy. It is highly admiring that a process has been successfully transforming for several decades and will continue to do so.  While researching about recruitment for more than a decade, I discovered that there is strong belief about…

According to a recent Facebook blog post, “Half of employers (50 percent) are using Facebook in their hiring process. A majority (54 percent) already using the social network anticipates Facebook becoming a more important part of the talent acquisition process in the near future.”

Job candidates are also infusing their job search with Facebook activity. In a recent study conducted jointly by Facebook and Carnegie-Mellon University, results revealed that job seekers with strong ties…

I've recorded a very short video to show off a simple tool I put together very much inspired by work and blogs from Shane Bowen and Glen Gutmacher. I hope you like it. The tool is available on my blog www.intel-sw.com/blog

originally posted on sourcecon RSS Horticulture for Sourcers

This year has been a rough one for fans of RSS. LinkedIn eliminated RSS feeds for groups in March. Twitter depreciated feeds in July breaking many hearts and blog widgets. Google Reader was shut down on July 1st followed by Google Alerts as they removed the option of RSS output. Public outcry was loud, but in the…

My webinar this is all about Location based Candidate Sourcing. Very often my sourcing demonstrations find candidates in big cities with big populations but what happens when you want candidates in a remote area with perhaps only a few thousand people in the population. This is a common problem and made even more difficult when the thousands of candidates from the big…

Originally Posted at http://bit.ly/IpkVVP @Blogging4Jobs April 12th, 2012

VOTC, WOTC, & THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT

If you are a HR professional, or responsible for hiring at your organization, chances are that you are familiar with WOTC or the Work Opportunity Tax Credit.  This tax credit is common for companies to receive when they hire job seekers who have received…

HI all,

I wanted to share how to unlock the profile for the sourcing contest, my approach was different from Irina's since I used linkedin to unlock the right profile. Below is the brief explanation of my approach.

Here is the challenge:

This guy is from an island in Australia has profiles on G+, LI, & more.What color is the piece of furniture on his company page?#peoplesourcing

It was of course a tough one using this limited information but…