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Permalink Reply by RecruiterGuy on May 1, 2008 at 8:29am

I laughed when I recently saw it summed up something like this:
LinkedIn: Suit and Tie
Facebook: Khakis and Polo
MySpace: Shorts - shirt is optional

Having said that... A few things that are easy on myspace are searching by title and company name. The beauty of MySpace is that you can search occupation, income, education, interests and work experience. Of course - I'd give much less weight to the income today as I might have a few years ago. I think you'll find so many MySpacers make over $900k as a bellhop that you'll start looking to them for career advice.

You can also check out the groups that MySpace offers much like those in Facebook.

I give no blessing to the following link (if it's still up) - but if memory serves there are a few like www.myspaceprofiles.org/profiles floating around out there.

As for Facebook - it offers the basic Search and Advanced Search - both of which offer up the same soft flexibility that you have in MySpace. The difference here is that it will only search people within your own network with the exception of just throwing you a name and the option to add as a friend or send a message. (Heaven forbid you then run with this name to something like Wink or similar People Finder...)
This is where your participation in groups really comes in handy as it will allow you to quickly expand your network and contacts.

You get what you give in these networks, I think.

Hope this helps - I'm only one cup of coffee into my day and may not even have the links right. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Papp on May 1, 2008 at 8:44am

It depends on what you are sourcing for.....I have found a few candidates on myspace from joining certain myspace groups that focus in IT (I recruit sys admins, engineers, architects and developers). I send folks that I'm interested in a private message through myspace explaining why I'm reaching out to him/her. The response has been very positive!!

I have actually had more luck with myspace than facebook. Although, I have found posting jobs on facebook to be easier....so it is possible that I do get candidates from there that click on our careers site and apply through there.

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Permalink Reply by RecruiterGuy on May 1, 2008 at 9:24am

That crazy guy over at JobsInPods just posted something worth checking out, Dan.

http://jobsinpods.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/facbook-recruiting-tip-6/

Chris always has some great tips floating around that site of his.

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Permalink Reply by Maureen Sharib on May 1, 2008 at 9:47am

How to source candidates on Facebook

Chris Russell offered this over on ERE.
Here's a free, step-by-step guide to sourcing candidates on Facebook.
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Attend the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing classroom chats at noon (est) TODAY, TH May 1 and TOMORROW, Fri May 2 here.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Durbin on May 1, 2008 at 11:23am

Dan,

I'll be doing a webinar on how to Recruit for Facebook and MySpace through Hireability on May 21st. The information is good, but I'll be walking through the process using screen shots and actually performing a search. Drop me a line. -Jim

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Permalink Reply by Dan Nuroo on May 1, 2008 at 7:07pm

Thanks Jim,

Would love to be part of that, however I've found that the normal times these things are done in the US make it tough for me. The ERE webinars require me to be up and logged in at 4am. Is there any chance you will be recording this event?

Cheers

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Dan Nuroo on May 1, 2008 at 7:08pm

Thanks Maureen,

I know where I'm heading next! Ahhh always good for someone else to do the thinking for me :)

cheers

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Dan Nuroo on May 1, 2008 at 7:12pm

Thanks Amanda

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Permalink Reply by Dan Nuroo on May 1, 2008 at 7:14pm

Thanks Recruiterguy,

Love the first bit.... makes sense scarily enough

I'll get into this after my coffee number one! Coming up NOW

Cheers

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Melanie Gretgrix on May 1, 2008 at 10:09pm

Hi Dan,

Im in Perth - good to see you are getting value from the conference! good starting blocks if you are the beginning of stepping up your use of social networking and professional networking sites and forums. There is loads of info out there from people who have sucessfully trod this path before us. If you search in the archives on the recruiting blogs site, ERE or on jobmachine.com (Blog is awesome and has good tips too), you'll find loads of good pointers to get you started. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but will link you into some of the wider community using these sites as sourcing tools already. I went to Shally's Masterclass after the ATC and found some of his search shortcuts really helpful. Its great to be able to access this after hours also.

Mel

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Permalink Reply by Jim Durbin on May 1, 2008 at 11:20pm

I might be able to work something out. There will be video replay for people who watched it. I imagine you could register for the event and not actually watch it live.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Nuroo on May 4, 2008 at 9:28am

Thanks Melanie,

Couldnt stay around the extra day, sent one of my team instead, that reminds me, he still hasn't presented on what he learnt there (albeit I haven't presented to the rest of the team yet either)

I does look like I have a bit of research to do, but the results of this forum have been truely great.

Cheers

Dan

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