Recreating the Wheel, Why?
How many staffing professionals, recruiters, and sourcers, create their own Boolean strings? Answer most of us. However how many copy those strings down and keep them in a file of some kind for use later? Answer not many. Why? Why do we feel the need to reinvent the wheel, recreate the search strings over and over again, when we can simply copy them to a spread sheet for use later. Moreover we can keep a tack of the results from a…
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Sometimes simple is best, less is more!!!!!
Within HR, staffing and business in general, there is a huge push towards metrics, and process. Everyone wants to ensure they have a process, and it can be measured. These things are very important, however we need to ensure we look at them and incorporate them for the right reasons, and looking for the right things.
So let’s start with process, of course you need a process…
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Social Media list of Lists!!
Main Categories: general (not specific to any brand, mission, type of person), specific (targets a specific group, such as flixster which is movie orientated), and misc (any site that does not fall under the first 2 categories). Of course each main category has many sub. Below are the social sites by sub category and of course there are more and more being brought on line every day.
Sub Categories:…
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Social Media Architecture/Framework!!!!!! Part 5
This will be the 5th and final in the series of posts about Social media architecture.
In part one we went over the why, we talked about branding and about seeing what is being said out there about you. In part 2 we discussed the different sites. In part 3 we discussed tools and more. In part 4 we selected sites and tools.
Now it’s time to put it all together
First get your profiles…
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Social Media Architecture!!!!!! Part 4
This will be the 4th in a series of posts about Social media architecture.
In part one we went over the why, we talked about branding and about seeing what is being said out there about you.
In part 2 we discussed the different sites. In part 3 we discussed tools and more.
Now it’s time to pick the sites and the tools to use.
So for the purposes of this we are…
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Social Media
Architecture!!!!!! Part 3
This will be the 3rd in a series of posts about Social media architecture.
In part one we went over the why, we talked about branding and about seeing what is being said out there about you.
In part 2 we discussed the different sites and more.
Now it’s time to cover tools and more.
Tools: these are tools that will help you with your social…
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Social Media Architecture/Framework!!!!!! Part 2
This will be the 2nd in a series of posts about Social media architecture/framework.
In part one we went over the why, we talked about branding and about seeing what is being said out there about you.
Now it’s time to go over some of the social sites.
Sites: now keep in mind there are hundreds and more every day. They…
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Social Media
Architecture/Framework!!!!!! Part 1
This will be the first in a series of
posts about Social media architecture/framework. Ensure you read the prelude to
this series posted last week.
Note some of this info will be repetitive from
post to post, this is done to ensure the info is emphasized.
NOTE: THERE ARE OTHER TOOLS, SITES,
AND WAYS THIS CAN BE DONE, THIS IS…
Added by Dean Da Costa on November 4, 2011 at 7:34pm — No Comments
A Prelude to Social Media Architecture/Framework!
This is going to be a
prelude to a 5 part series on social media architecture/framework for
individuals.
First thing is first, what are you trying to accomplish?
Who are you trying get noticed by?
Once you have determined that, figure out what message
you should send to accomplish this and what your personnel brand should be.
The…
Added by Dean Da Costa on October 28, 2011 at 4:01pm — No Comments
Placing jobs on Twitter just became easier!!
I know allot of staffing professionals place their jobs on twitter. Most ways of doing it
are a little time consuming and a bit of a pain. But there is an easier way,
Twitres http://www.twitres.com/a/recruiter. Twitres allows you to easily tweet your job requirements.
The tweet will even include a link for candidates to submit resumes…
ContinueAdded by Dean Da Costa on October 20, 2011 at 8:38pm — No Comments
Going Hmm versus Nodoubt
So there seems to be 2 lines of
thinking with regards to what to look for when reviewing a resume.
Some recruiters, staffing
professionals, and hiring managers look for a nodoubt, sure things, guarantee
hire when they review a resume anything less gets pushed aside.
Others look for the HMM, the maybe,
the worth talking to.
So which approach is the…
ContinueAdded by Dean Da Costa on October 15, 2011 at 9:52pm — No Comments
Years VS Quality!!
When reviewing a resume or writing a
job description there is always thought given to years of experience. But the
question is, is it really years of experience that is most important or the
quality of what was done that is the most important.
Let’s say you need a recruiter, but
the emphasis is on sourcing. 90% of the job is going to be sourcing and you
want 8 years of experience as a recruiter.…
Added by Dean Da Costa on October 7, 2011 at 2:24pm — 1 Comment
World vision Versus Funnel Vision!!
What kind of vision do you use when reviewing resumes or looking at profiles? Do you focus only at the very first few lines? Do you perhaps read the whole thing but only treat each section, each line as an individual entity? If you do that is Funnel vision. Think of a funnel; think you are looking through the big end out of the little end. This allows you to only see a little bit at a time of what…
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Helping those looking for work!!!!!!!!! Part 3 The Job of finding a Job!!
So given the unemployment rate went up a week or so ago, I thought I would repost a 3 part series I did about a year ago on resumes, finding a job and more. So here we go.
Part 2
The Job of finding a Job!!
That is right finding a job is a job, if you cannot commit a minimum of 3-4 hours a day looking, than you will…
ContinueAdded by Dean Da Costa on September 19, 2011 at 12:56am — 1 Comment
Helping those looking for work!!!!!!!!! Part 2 The Job of finding a Job!!
So given the unemployment rate went up a week or so ago, I thought I would repost a 3 part series I did about a year ago on resumes, finding a job and more. So here we go.
Part 2
The secret to having a resume that is searchable and Optimized!!!
As you all know when you apply to a job, your resume goes into a huge…
Added by Dean Da Costa on September 9, 2011 at 3:30pm — 6 Comments
So given the unemployment rate went up a week or so ago, I thought I would repost a 3 part series I did about a year ago on resumes, finding a job and more. So here we go.
Part 1
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…
ContinueAdded by Dean Da Costa on August 26, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments
Linkedin cheats etc
LinkedIn has become huge, and using it for sourcing has become even bigger. But of course sourcing within LinkedIn has limitations. Below are some tips, tricks, cheats that may help. Most are nothing more than utilizing the things you learned in my previous postings. But here they are more specialized.
So domain and site searches in search engines
site:linkedin.com add…
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Sourcing and searching the variables.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As some of you read in my post on research, using that research to improve your
search strings and sourcing is very important. You will lock yourself into a very small pool of candidates if you do not use the variables.
variables = changeable-for purposes of sourcing it means another word or set of words that will garner the same type of candidates ex “HP…
ContinueAdded by Dean Da Costa on August 12, 2011 at 9:52pm — No Comments
Interviewing is a 2 way street!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most staffing professionals, hiring managers, and others who do interviews seem to be under a misunderstanding as it relates to interviewing. They feel that they are doing the interviewing and that is all. They do not realize that the candidate is interviewing us as well.
When you are interviewing a candidate the candidate is taking mental notes of everything said,…
ContinueAdded by Dean Da Costa on August 3, 2011 at 6:45pm — No Comments
Reporting, and matrices a hidden land mine!!
I have done several postings on reporting and on matrices. In all of them I stress the importance of not using the stats alone to make decisions. The reason for that is because stats alone do not tell you the whole story. It is imperative you understand the WHY’s behind the numbers. If not you will fall into the hidden land mind that these reports and matrices create. You will make choices based on half…
ContinueAdded by Dean Da Costa on July 28, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments
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