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In today's competitive talent market, you need the ability to aggressively seek and go after ideal candidates. Use these three basic sourcing techniques to get more proactive with your recruiting!
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Here are 3 Sourcing Strategies
Struggling to Find Great Candidates?
You Can Start Using Today
How are you finding talent?
Job Advertisements?
Employee Referrals?
Career Fairs?
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THESE ARE ALL EFFECTIVEWAYS TO FILL A POSITIONEach one plays an integral role in
your recruiting process
BUT...THEY SHOULDN’TBE YOUR ONLY CHANNELS FORTALENT ACQUISITION
YOU NEED MORE THAN A REACTIVE APPROACH TO RECRUITING.
YOU NEED TO BE PROACTIVE TOOSo you can fill today’s requisitions, prepare for tomorrow’s talent needs, and make meaningful connectionsfor your hard-to-fill roles
Proactively source for talent
Build a pipeline of prospects
Engage your right-fit candidates
Leverage your talent community
Here’s How
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Boolean Sourcing
Job Board Sourcing
Social Sourcing
Where can you start?
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Boolean Sourcing
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Boolean Sourcing
Enables you to find candidate information from
all over the web—including resumes and cover
letters—that are stored within personal
websites, job boards and social platforms
by using a unique set of search commands.
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OR returns results containing at least one of your specified keywords or phrase.
Example: Entering programmer OR developer OR engineer would produce results containing any of these terms but not necessarily all of them.
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Quotations return sites containing the exact phrase you’re searching for.
Example: senior manager would return pages containing either keyword but “senior manager” would only return pages containing the exact phrase.
Basic Boolean Commands
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Minus command returns sites that exclude terms.
Example: Using the minus command “-” before a keyword (i.e. pork -beans) will return pages with pork but exclude any pages containing beans.
*
Use the asterisk (*) within your query to identify a placeholder or wildcard terms.
Example: “the cow jumped over the *” would return pages containing the phrase “the cow jumped over the moon,” “the cow jumped over the fence, ” etc.
Basic Boolean Commands - Cont’d
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Parenthesis help group Boolean phrases for more complex search strings.
Example: If you searched for (Engineer or “Software Developer”) (CISCO OR Microsoft OR HP), your results would contain either job title keyword that ALSO contains one of the company keywords.
site:
Use the command site: to search pages within a specific website.
Example: Searching for site:linkedin.com “web designers” AND Phoenix would return LinkedIn profiles containing both keywords Web Designer and Phoenix.
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Job Board Sourcing
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Job Board Sourcing
Locate the employer section of a job board site
Look for the option to search or source a resume database
Use common keywords your candidates would use
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Leverage a job board site to source your ideal candidates.
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Don’t know where to start?
Recruiting.com offers both a free
sourcing tool and premium sourcing
of the resume database of our
leading locally focused job board,
Jobing.com.
Job Board Sourcing
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Social Sourcing
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Your prospects already spend a lot of time on social platforms.
Take advantage of sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that offer tools to help you proactively find your next hire.
Social Sourcing
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Use Facebook’s Graph Search. It’s a free tool that enables you to find people on Facebook who work for a specific industry, near a special location, or for a particular company
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Twitter is also a free tool for sourcing candidates. Use the search engine to find people by specific keywords, phrases and locations. Twitter is anopen network, so you’re free to connect with anyone.
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Find candidates on LinkedInNo membership required. You can simply use the Boolean commands you’ve just learned. site:linkedin.com “current * job title” (inurl:pub | inurl:in) -intitle:directory “candidate location”
(replace the blue words with your keywords, and paste into Google)
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FORGET WAITING AROUND FOR YOUR APPLICANTS!
Use these 3 basic sourcing techniques to find them yourself
What’s Next?
Now that you have great candidates…What should you do with them? Build a talent community
What’s a talent community? It’s a place where you can collect great candidates (the ones that you may not hire today, but could be great for an opening in the future).
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What’s Next?
Need help getting started?Recruiting.com offers effective tools for managing your candidate pipeline—like our Talent Community widget and our back-end candidate relationship management (CRM) system.
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