Sourcing Tools and Tips

[Irina Shamaeva]

Dear All,

With increasing pressure on sourcers and recruiters to deliver, exploding amounts of information on the web, and little time to wonder
around looking for new tools - we all would benefit from sharing what we
already know and what helps us.

Could you please share a helpful sourcing or searching tool or a site that you use?

Or, share a sourcing tip, such as clever search string syntax, or a way to make sense of too many search results, or a method to find just the right "place" where your candidates hang out, or how to reach a LinkedIn member with no contact info in sight, etc.

Looking forward to your replies!

[Paul Bacon]

Here are two ways to search facebook for communities of people

Using the Yahoo browser

linkdomain:facebook.com (group OR association OR organization) “Java Developer" AND Dublin –jobs
(Again just change the key search words and location for your own search)

Here we found on the first page a web page www.irishdev.com

Using Google Browser

site:facebook.com (”accountant” OR CPA) AND Ireland AND inurl:people
(As usual just change the key search words and location for your own search)

On closer look at the results I found a community at ‘CPA Ireland’ with 496 people

By clicking on this page and then clicking on the sites facebook page(button) we found a community of 456 people.

[Jamie Stout]

Irina,
What a great idea. Sort of like a resource and string library. Will dig through my strings and sites and let you know what I have found the most useful. On a side note, it there a reference library on this site. I can't seem to find one. Thanks so much. Have a Great Day and God Bless!

[Manish Chandra Gupta]

Adam,
Could you please help me to make me understand this one? How to use this tool? I tried putting in the portion of job description and tiltle, and got few keywords. Now shall I use these words in my boolean string? Look to hear.

Manish


Adam Wiedmer said:

Hi, this is more for writing and honing your job adverts, but can be helpful in identifying SEO flaws in your keywords vs. the job description.

http://textalyser.net/

So, I will get the most common keywords used on Google AdWords, then cross-reference all postings on Textalyser to make sure the most common Keywords & Phrases are in high density.

[Sellvaraj Natarajan]

I would like to share this link with the members:
This is a passive candidate search engine, it searches all social networks and web.
http://big5hire.com/
Hope this would be of help to anyone.
Thanks much
Sellvaraj Natarajan