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Blog Post: Top 10 Things to Know When Setting up Your Company's First Video Interview Session

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Blog Post: Top 10 Things to Know When Setting up Your Company's First Video Interview Session: When was the last time you worked in the office? Probably several months ago. The arrival of the global Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we work and made working from home become the “new…; Added by Ngan Pham at 12:01pm on August 11, 2021

Topic: "...and I thought I was busted!": t those of you who are interested in the subject might enjoy it. I was calling today looking for Web Analysts in media companies and I called a company in New York and a very nice young woman named Donna answered the phone but as they sometimes do, she did not identify herself. Instead, she stated the name of the company she works for and, “May I help you?” I took her cue. “I hope, so, this is Maureen Sharib – I was trying to call Jeremy Black there in your office - I hit his VoiceMail, can you tell me, is there anyone else in Jeremy’s group we might try?” “What group is he in – do you know?” she queried back. “Yes, I do, he’s in the Integrated Marketing Solutions group and he’s a Web Analyst,” I answered with the aplomb and confidence of the information I gathered from his VoiceMail (the “Integrated Marketing Solutions group” bit – I already knew his title from LinkedIn!) “Oh! I call them the SIM group,” she stated. I did not question why there was an S on the beginning of the acronym, rather than the end, recognizing the letters as standing for the words in the group name. She sounded like she was about to talk so I let her go on. “I can try someone else in the group, do you know anyone else?” she curiously asked me. “You know, I don’t – does he have an Admin?” I casually asked, trying to change the subject. “No, that group doesn’t have an Admin.” She sounded familiar with the group and I found the info that the group did not have an AA odd. “But tell you what, I can try someone else in the group for you. There’s a James Blow and a Peter Brow and a (incomprehensible foreign sounding name)... let’s try the first one, James Blow. Are you typing these names?” she asked, throwing me off-guard, surprising me and stopping my fingers. I had been – I’ve been using a normal keyboard lately since my silent one gave up the ghost – they don’t last too long and I haven’t yet ordered my next one. Apparently she could hear the fast clickety-clack of my information gathering through my headset. “Yes, I am,” I answered truthfully. (“Uh oh,” I thought, starting with the stinkin’ thinkin” I’m always warning you against – “Here we go – she’s going to ask me why...”) “Do you have James’s last name spelled correctly?” she surprised me again. “I think I do – is it B-L-O-W?” I answered. “Most assuredly not!” she exclaimed, through her laughter. Nobody gets that one right – it’s B –L –A –U. I think it’s really important to know how to say, and spell, someone’s name right!” “This is interesting,” I thought. “Someone after my own heart.” “I agree, and I’m sorry I didn’t ask and I’m very glad you corrected me!” I chimed back. “It is important to say someone’s name correctly – I know my own name often gets mispronounced – I’m not really fussy about it but I know some people are – are you?” I asked her, deflecting. “I am,” she answered. People don’t realize this, but I can recognize a lot of things on the phone...I can tell if you’re not smiling, if you’re aggravated, if you’re selling something...” “What is your name?” I boldly asked. “Donna. I never give my name out because people use it and say thing like, “Donna said, Donna said...” I laughed, knowing EXACTLY what she was talking about, but I did not let on that I understood her plight so completely. “Oh my goodness - imagine that!” is all I offered. Then she said, startlingly, “I’m glad you’re laughing because at first you sounded very serious...serious but polite, you told me your name right away – I appreciated that,” she remarked, “I know what you’re doing so it’s okay...” “She knows what I’m doing?” I thought to myself. I hope not. She’s not THIS good, I hoped. I was beginning to see writing on the wall in front of me. I was uneasy and decided the best thing to do in this situation was to remain silent. She then went on, filling the silence, to tell me, “I’ll go ahead and transfer you to James now, I’ll stay on the line to be sure he answers,” to which, I acknowledged, “Thank you so much, Donna,” wondering how much she really did know. James’s line of course went to VoiceMail and thinking she was still on I said, “Donna?” She didn’t answer so I knew she had not stayed on the line with me so I zeroed out back to her. She answered. “Donna, it’s me, Maureen, again – I got James’s Voicemail too!” I told her, with a slight hint of complaint. “Who else did you say was in that department?” I asked, like I didn’t already have the other name I heard when she recited them off in the beginning. “Sorry! I didn’t stay on with you – my other line rang and I had to answer that,” she offered in way of an apology, like there was one needed. “That’s okay, Donna,” I soothed. “Can we try someone else?” “Sure, the next one on the list is Peter Brow – you know how to spell that?” she asked, testing me. I could tell she took her job seriously. “I give up! I’m not even going to attempt to try!” I teased back, breaking into a laugh. “B-R-A-U,” she informed. “Well, I wouldn’t have gotten THAT one right – that’s for sure!” I exclaimed, affirming her worth in the process. “Can we try him?” “Sure – hang on,” and off I go to another VoiceMail, to which once again I listen for any clues to the keys to the kingdom. I zero back again. “No good?” Donna asks, not even skipping a beat. “No,” trying to sound as forlorn as possible. “Allrighty then, let me just try Ellen...” The line goes silent as she swifts me to another VoiceMail and when I arrive back, once again, she offers, “I’m just going to go down the line, ok, hold on...let’s try Samantha...” and she sends me to Samantha. Samantha answered, and Samantha, being one of the group, was able to detail for me what everyone’s title was and also informed me that Jeremy was the ONLY Web Analyst in the group. My job here was done. But this experience was different for me because it gave me a view into a real Gatekeeper’s psyche. She had strong beliefs about how communication should work and took pains to see that the process was well-oiled and functional in her organization. She affirmed for me many things I have held dear in my own process and she also demonstrated, once again, that things may not always be what you think they are. It’s best, when you’re thrown off your footing, to go quiet and watch what emerges. Nine times out of ten it’s not what you think! ****** This information is not to be re-published for commercial purposes in any form without my prior written permission. ****** Like what you just read? MagicMethod is brimming with information like this and will show you the inside tips and techniques of true telephone names sourcers! Subscribe today here. The Book of Sourcers is ready! Get your list of 200+ sourcers now here. NameSourcer blog. NEW Join the SourcersGuild Ning network here.…; Added by Maureen Sharib to Phone Sourcing at 9:21am on April 22, 2008

Topic: Do you do international Linkedin Searches? Improved X-ray!!: s that it only allows you to search one country simultaneously while for a lot of my jobs I really don't care where people are coming from. It now means that I have to run a search several times in order to make sure I have the maximum amount of candidates. I can of course try and search through the search engine of Linkedin directly and see what it gives me but the results have not been optimal. If I add say (Netherlands OR Belgium) to my keyword search I get a lot of false positives simply because of people having those words in their profile. One of my favourite ways of searching Linkedin is not using linkedin at all, it's the all-mighty X-ray. X-ray explained Now, hopefully most recruiters are comfortable with x-ray but for the less boolean-gifted recruiters a quick explanation: x-ray is a Google search string that allows you to focus on one particular site. If I put site:linkedin.com in my Google search it will give me only results from.............right, LinkedIn! There are big advantages to x-ray over a LinkedIn search and that is that you really can see all of the public profiles on linked and you can actually contact them. Reason for this is that a) your search results is limited by the size of your network and b) LinkedIn allows you to see the LinkedIn profile if you come in through this back door where if you did a normal search it wouldn't allow you if that person was outside of your network. Whenever you do an x-ray on Google don't forget to add inurl:pub OR inurl:in -intitle:directory in order to eliminate pages where such a groups and events. To further narrow it down add -inurl:updates. To give you an idea of the power of this string: it gives 30.200.000 hits. I would say much of the population of Linkedin The international X-ray For the more advanced recruiter that wants to search internationally there are some ways to limit the search to a specific country or some specific countries. Glen Cathey wrote an article about how to do this after I had contacted him about some international search he had done. To recap his research: You can do a search on postal codes on Linkedin: If you take a large city as say Amsterdam, The Netherlands you see that in the city there are several postal codes Now if we do a search on Linkedin with the postal code 1000 in the Netherlands you will see that all of them have in their profile "Amsterdam Area, Netherlands". And with that "area, country" we can play. My own research completes Glen's list and below a list of all the structures that are being used "Area, France" "Area, Germany" "*, United Kingdom" "Area, Switzerland" Area, Belgium Area, Netherlands Area, Sweden Area, Spain *, Finland Area, Norway *, Russian Federation *, Portugal Area, Italy *, Ireland Area, Denmark *, Austria As you can see most countries in Europe follow the "area, country" setup except for the UK but what can you expect from a country where people drive on the wrong side of the road? Now, let's say I need a user experience expert in the Netherlands? A what? Yeah, sorry but I had this search recently so might as well take that one. A search on "user experience" in the whole of the Netherlands gives me 1239 hits. I'm not going into how I can increase it by perhaps looking at other job titles, that is not the meaning of this article. An x-ray on google site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub OR inurl:in) -intitle:directory -inurl:updates (”Area, Netherlands”) "user experience" gives me 2.510 hits. A lot better of course, way too many results and I would need to narrow it down but I've just doubled the number of candidates. Now this seams to work but if I'm searching for more countries I may run into the Google limit of 32 words in the boolean search. As well I've found that somehow not everybody has a region mentioned in their profile which would render the "area, country" string useless. In a niche market like UX I can't afford to lose out on a single candidate. The Holy Grail of international x-rays So here is what I've found and if I'm not mistaken nobody else has blogged about it. So here is my ticket to fame :-) LinkedIn has recently changed all the personal links on peoples profiles. Now, US-based profiles haven't changed and still are http://www.linkedin.com/in/NAME but as I'm based in Spain my personal link has changed to http://es.linkedin.com/in/tedmeulenkamp. A check on other profiles gives that profiles in the UK now have uk.linkedin.com, in Germany de.linkedin.com and the Netherlands nl.linkedin.com. I have not (yet) compiled a list of all the country codes but they seem to be following the standard country codes used globally. So wow, Linkedin has actually placed a country code in the personal links of all their members! Have I found the holy grail for international linkedin x-rays? So before we bring out the champagne (or cava in Spain) let's test this. site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub OR inurl:in) -intitle:directory -inurl:updates inurl:nl.linkedin.com user experience" gives me 2.990 hits. Not bad as it increases the amount of hits over the previous one because of the before mentioned fact that not everybody has a region in the profile but they surely have had to give their country when signing up. But we are still not there, what if, just imagine, what if the country code is only used in personal profiles and not on any other pages. That would mean we could get rid of inurl:pub OR inurl:in as thus save space. site:linkedin.com -intitle:directory -inurl:updates inurl:nl.linkedin.com user experience" gives me exactly the same amount of hits as my previous search and that is just awesome! It really means that we can leave out inurl:pub OR inurl:in. But wait, wait, wait. What if we leave out -intitle:directory and -inurl:updates? site:linkedin.com inurl:nl.linkedin.com user experience" again gives me the same amount of hits. AMAZING!!! We went from a pretty lengthy search string to this compact, easy to remember, easy to use search string! Just to be complete if you want to use this string for a multi country search you just put in inurl:nl.linkedin.com OR inurl:be.linkedin.com OR etc). So folks, run the following and bookmark it for your international searches: site:linkedin.com inurl:nl.linkedin.com KEYWORDS". Change the country code and keywords and rock on! Conclusion There is so much more to get out of Linkedin by using an X-ray and now with this new search string you can actually very accurately search per country and profit of the larger network and accessibility of the x-ray search! And dear friends in the US, sorry but because you still have the original profile links you still need to use the full search string.…; Added by Ted Meulenkamp at 6:20am on November 16, 2009

Comment on: Topic 'No one returns emails or calls any more. Did professionalism go out the door wi…': ming negative responses to my sparked debate. It seems to be a sensitive subject on both sides but I'm probably debating a losing battle. You really hit the nail on the head for ME. One of those aha moments. Enthusiasm and belief in ones product or service is so very important, especially now in this economy. I know this, but, being reminded certainly does not hurt. Maybe I've just become less optimisitc and that's what people are hearing from me. I really need to think about my message and how I am being perceived, regardless of the fact that I really do believe my company provides value add! (Perception is Reality). I've been in sales for over 20 years personally, but I have only been in this particular business for approximately 4 years. I love it believe it or not, but, even in my first year of recruiting and being an absolute novice I never saw the lack of response as I do now. I guess that's where my frustration lies. I in no way intended this subject to turn into a pity party for Jill I just wanted to make my point hoping it would at least resonate for people who are on the side of the desk making hiring decisions or the decision on who to respond too and who not too. Jack Young said:I attended my first recruiter’s work shop in September 1986. I unfortunately can’t remember the name of the presenter, although I do remember his diamond studded cufflinks, embroidered/monogrammed shirt, and a smirk that said, “90% of you newbies will never make it past the first 60 days.”We had to learn the “pitch”, and it went something like this, “Hi, my name is Jack Young I’m an executive recruiter I take it you know what I mean.” Depending on whether you were cold calling a candidate or a client you then went further in your spiel with, CANDIDATE: “I’m calling you today because I just received a fabulous assignment to recruit a Director of Operations for a wonderful manufacturing company in your area, and I was wondering if you’d be interested in hearing about this opportunity?”Jill, apropos your discussion from the CLIENT SIDE circa 1986, “I was calling you today because I just met an incredibly talented Director of Operations. I’m handling a search for another distribution company, and frankly, this particular Director of Ops is too senior for my current client company. Do you think you’d be interested in hearing about this very talented operations professional?”Here’s a laugh from these pre-scripted call days; I worked with another new recruiter “Bob”. Bob really took the training literally, and committed to memory the opening phrase, “Hi my name is Bob I’m an executive recruiter I take it you know what I mean.” Well, we all worked off of paper company lists at the time, and you simply were “dialing for dollars”, not paying too much attention to who, what and where. Bob is on his umpteenth call of the day, and about twelve of us in the “recruiting bullpen” were making calls, and hated hearing Bob and his inane rendition of, “Hi my name is Bob I’m an executive recruiter I take it you know what I mean.” Finally, Bob get’s the next potential client or candidate on the phone, and he starts his pitch when all of a sudden we hear him say, “Hi my name is Bob I’m an executive recruiter I TAKE IT I KNOW WHAT I MEAN”. Jill, I’ve laughed a lot during my years in this business, but maybe never harder than hearing Bob utter that one phrase. Imagine the thoughts going on in the mind of the person listening to that pitch.It is amazing with this training I ever survived in the business. On and on, evolving and evolving we’ve trekked. Always trying to professionalize our approach, and gain entre' to the next great client, or superstar “Operations Manager”.I find myself having morphed from newbie/novice salesman, agency proprietor, to seasoned showman/schmoozer. A day does not go by where I’m not formulating a strategy of how to break into an account. How can I reinvigorate enthusiasm with a long standing client company that’s been hit hard by the economic downturn?No one returns my calls, where has professionalism gone was the salesman’s lament in 1986; it is still a challenge to overcome today in 2009. The biggest difference is that the snub can emanate from so many different forms of media. Our email can be ignored, our voicemail can be ignored, our text can be ignored, and the greatest indignity of all, our Tweet can be ignored…I posted a blog on April 23rd. titled “I just want someone to call me” http://www.allowmetointroducemyself.com/blog/ from the 100’s of candidate calls I receive and their pleas for help in connecting with a potential hiring authority or recruiter that can offer them some hope.Man, I don’t want to be preaching, (particularly to this choir), but many of us face the same challenge as the candidate(s) wanting audience with a hiring manager. Reinvent, or as our President sold us, “change”… and so I shall.I’ve reinvented my recruiting model for the fourth time in 23 years. This incarnation is the most drastic, innovative, and circular in design. I’ve tried to consider the most glaring needs of the client, candidate, and recruiter. This new model gives me reason, and purpose to reach out to 23 years of connections. I won’t be sending a single postcard, letter or facsimile.There’ll be links to PowerPoint presentations stored online. Announcements throughout the Social Networking community, and yes, old fashion phone calls to my most valued accounts. Jill, I need to be extraordinarily compelling in my message.I need to be inventive in my service, and need to employ strategic risks that look good on paper, but are wholly unproven in practical application. I can do this because I am convinced my plan is solid, and the implementation benefits everyone.I’m leaving emails regarding this launch that are being returned. I’m calling my client base with a message that goes something like this, “Hi, it’s Jack Young, and I would like to speak to you about a new recruiting solution for your company. I’ve crafted a unique way for us to work together that will dramatically reduce your cost in utilizing my service, and provide you greater access to my network.” I’m receiving a call back of about 90% of the time. As a maniacal Class A lunatic, the 10% not responding still drives me nuts. My attitude is once the program roles out and gains it’s first, and second success, the ten-percenters will come along as well.Be compelling, be beyond excited, be positive – if you believe you are calling with a product or service that will definitely improve the functionality, productivity, and profitability of a company, and that belief is born from solid research and experience, keep calling until the CEO, President or owner of the company tells you to stop! …; Added by Jill Rosenfield at 4:40pm on May 13, 2009

Blog Post: Analyzing the "RecruiterSpam" Problem

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