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!

[Adam Wiedmer]

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.

[gary cozin]

Ever need a phone # quickly? Use Google!

Type in: phonebook: firstname lastname state abbr

Try it out - (if the person's is listed somewhere of course);

Also, while there are many ways & many tools to do this, if you need an email format for a company, type in Google:

"email * * companyname.com"

(Use quotes and replace 'companyname' with the actual co you are trying to find email address formats for. As you scan the results, it will give you email patterns/formats for that company - such as [e-mail] or [e-mail], etc)

[Aaron James Temple]

www.Brupt.com

I found a cool site that utilizes Google as a search engine but will only populate documents in Word, PDF, Excel, or PowerPoint. The cool thing is that you don't have to be a Boolean buff to use it, however the traditional boolean strings and wild cards do apply to narrow a search.

I wanted to see how basic you could go with the Boolean so I did a simple string: (resume*|cv|vitae) "Java Developer". Sure enough, 10 pages of ONLY resume documents came up. After that, I switched to the PDF tab and recived those, etc. Though RecruitingBlogs.com and Big5Hire have a similar feature, I found this site to be more user friendly. Looking forward to the exchange of ideas - great idea Irina!!!

[Irina Shamaeva]

This might be a bit technical but it is useful:
Control Google Search Results via the URL

[Paul Bacon]

Hey there great idea

Two I found useful for online profiles are www.whoozy.com & www.referyes.com

note Chrissy I love the wwwduckduckgo.com

[gary cozin]

For peoples search try: http://radaris.com

For company info a great site is: http://manta.com

[Christine McKenzie]

Hi Manish,
Try this from DuckDuckGo:

site:linkedin.com "District Sales Manager" "Greater Philadelphia Area" "Public Profile Powered By"

Basically, use it as a regular search engine..Good Luck!

Chrissy

Manish Chandra Gupta said:

Hello Christine,
Could you please share a search string which runs on this?

Christine McKenzie said:

I have been using the following search engine with great results: http://duckduckgo.com - Try it for additional results!

Enjoy!
Chrissy

[Christine McKenzie]

Gary - This has worked really well - Thanks for sharing!

Chrissy

gary cozin said:

Ever need a phone # quickly? Use Google!

Type in: phonebook: firstname lastname state abbr

Try it out - (if the person's is listed somewhere of course);

Also, while there are many ways & many tools to do this, if you need an email format for a company, type in Google:

"email * * companyname.com"

(Use quotes and replace 'companyname' with the actual co you are trying to find email address formats for. As you scan the results, it will give you email patterns/formats for that company - such as [e-mail] or [e-mail], etc)

[Christine McKenzie]

Great Site! I plan to use this often- thanks for sharing.

Chrissy

Aaron James Temple said:

www.Brupt.com

I found a cool site that utilizes Google as a search engine but will only populate documents in Word, PDF, Excel, or PowerPoint. The cool thing is that you don't have to be a Boolean buff to use it, however the traditional boolean strings and wild cards do apply to narrow a search.

I wanted to see how basic you could go with the Boolean so I did a simple string: (resume*|cv|vitae) "Java Developer". Sure enough, 10 pages of ONLY resume documents came up. After that, I switched to the PDF tab and recived those, etc. Though RecruitingBlogs.com and Big5Hire have a similar feature, I found this site to be more user friendly. Looking forward to the exchange of ideas - great idea Irina!!!

[Krystel Smalls]

cvfox.com and big5hire are my favorites for passive candidate searches.

[Krystel Smalls]

www.scguild.com is great for IT resumes

[Siva Kumar]

http://www.polycola.com/ is one of the tool where you can search in google and yahoo in same window