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How to source on the lesser known sites!! Fiverr

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Fiverr

Fiverr is a site where people can advertise their skills and you can go and find someone who can do what you need them to do, engage them and hire them. Like ODesk its simply a place were freelancers make themselves…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on August 22, 2014 at 3:30pm — No Comments

How to source on the lesser known sites: Odesk

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Odesk

Odesk is simply a place were freelancers make themselves available for you to hire. The skills range from; developers, SEO. PM, and so much more.  Now how do you search without having to join? To do…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on August 15, 2014 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Sourcing on Lesser Known Sites: Kinzaa

Kinzaa lets you build visually stunning infographic resumes. An infographic resume is a way of describing your resume information in a visual or graphical form.  Infographics provides the format that sets you apart from the crowd. Employers get the specific information they crave in a single glance and they can quickly form an accurate…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on August 8, 2014 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Sourcing on Lesser Known Sites: Behance

Behance is a special site were creative people can showcase their work, and find jobs. This is for Illustrators, graphic designers, Motion Graphics etc. To do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old try and true tool, called x-raying. 

So to source within Behance…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on July 31, 2014 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Sourcing on Lesser Known Sites: Vizify

Vizify was a website designed around your other social media profiles. It was recently bought by Yahoo, however the profiles still exist and they are searchable. To do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old try and true tool, called x-raying.…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on July 25, 2014 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Sourcing on Lesser Known Sites: Dribbble

Dribbble is a site that is designed to be a community of designers, developers and such answer questions. People on this site might be; developers, web designers, graphic designers, Icon Artists, Typographers and much more. The people you might find here will also have small screenshots of their work. Of course sourcing…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on July 17, 2014 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Sourcing on Lesser Known Sites: StumbleUpon

This is the 9th in the series on lesser known sites to source from.  As you saw in the first one we used x-raying to source, well guess what we are again and guess what it still works and it works for free. 

The 7th site we will discuss is…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on July 11, 2014 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

On the 4th of July it’s time to help those who allow us the freedoms we have!!

On the 4th of July it’s time to help those who allow us the freedoms we have!! 

So here on the 4th of July, it is a must that we respect, appreciate thank and help those who gave and protect our right to live…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on July 3, 2014 at 9:37pm — 1 Comment

Recruiting & Social Media: Who You Should Follow (Updated)

So in reality you should not strive to be a follower but a leader. That said this post is about who out in the industry should you follow. Mind you this is the UPDATED list as of 6/22/14 and there will be more updates coming. By follow I mean on twitter, connected to on Linkedin, RSS feeds etc. People or companies that will…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on June 26, 2014 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Snippet Repo: New Code Repository Is Great Place To Source

There is a new code repository out there called Snippet Repo that has over 8745 lines of code snippeds and well over 2000 users and counting. Now to join you have to have a snippet…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on June 19, 2014 at 7:00pm — No Comments

USCM: What It Is And What It Does

USCM stand for “URL and web page Source Code Manipulation and study.” Basically it is the practice of looking at the url of a web page or the source code to either change it to get access to new things or study it to find and pull out information. Think of this as ASA on steroids, and as you know if you read my blog on ASA, ASA is…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on June 12, 2014 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

What Staffing can learn from the Drafting of Russell Wilson

Russell Wilson in 2012 was a 3rd round draft pick for the Seattle Seahawks, who was told he was too short, to slow, and did not have a strong enough arm to be a starting QB in the NFL. He was projected as a career backup at best. Today he is a top 10 Super Bowl winning QB. The question is how? How did so many people get it wrong and what can staffing learn from this…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on June 5, 2014 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Sourcing Lesser Known Sites: Ryze

This is the 8th in the series on lesser known sites to source from.  As you saw in the first one we used x-raying to source, well guess what we are again and guess what it still works and it works for free. 

The 7th site we will discuss is Ryze. …

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Added by Dean Da Costa on May 29, 2014 at 7:30pm — No Comments

How to source on the lesser known sites!! ResumeUp

This is the 5th in the series on lesser known sites to source from.  As you saw in the first one we used x-raying to source, well guess what we are again and guess what it still works and it works for free. 

The 4th site we will discuss ResumeUp.  ResumeUp is a way to create a Visual…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on May 23, 2014 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Your Resume: The Key To New Opportunities

Your resume, think of it as the key to opening doors to new possibilities and opportunities.  So given it is the key, you should probably learn how to write a great resume. First there are 3 main styles of resumes:…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on May 16, 2014 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Sourcing Lesser Known Sites: Career Cloud

This is the 5th in the series on lesser known sites to source from.  As you saw in the first one we used x-raying to source, well guess what we are again and guess what it still works and it works for free. …

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Added by Dean Da Costa on May 8, 2014 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Sourcing Lesser Known Sites: BeKnown by Monster

This is the 5th in the series on lesser known sites to source from.  As you saw in the first one we used x-raying to source, well guess what we are again and guess what it still works and it works for free.

The 4th site we will discuss is BeKnown.  BeKnown is monsters answer to social networking and business.  Beknown…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on April 30, 2014 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

The Dumbing Down of Staffing

That’s right; I said it, “The dumbing down of Staffing”. As much as we all love technology, and tools, I mean one of my monikers is “the Tool Guy”, technology and tools are dumbing us down. What I mean by that is we have a breed of staffing professional, that all they know is checking their ATS, checking the Monsters, Dices, CareerBuilder’s, etc., and that’s…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on April 22, 2014 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

How to source on the lesser known sites!! About.me

This is the 4th in the series on lesser known sites to source from.  As you saw in the first one we used x-raying to source, well guess what we are again and guess what it still works and it works for free. 

The 4th site we will discuss is About.me.  About.me is a mixture site,…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on April 17, 2014 at 2:29pm — No Comments

Staffing and Recruiting is not a Sales Job!

So with all the talk about staffing and recruiting and sales or not, I thought I would repost my original post on the subject. With a little twist.

I recently read an article were the writer was saying that recruiting/staffing are sales jobs. I…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on April 8, 2014 at 2:30pm — 6 Comments

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