Sourcing hacks to keep you ahead of the competition

Wow! I have no idea what I’m going to say. Jim Stroud

Senior Director Randstad Sourceright

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This is what I want to do…

Let’s share strategies! Let’s share cool tools! Tell me how you think!.

Tell me your strategy.

1 Search for people who can be connected via social media

"dm me" cloud.computing "find me on * " cloud.computing "network with me on * " cloud.computing "let's connect on * " cloud.computing "skype me at * " cloud.computing "tweet me at * " cloud.computing "join me on on * " cloud.computing "follow me on * " cloud.computing

More searches to try:

Oh! Searching on cloud.computing and “cloud computing” will return the same results.

2 Find people who have multiple versions of their resume online

When I did the search in French, I found resumes written in *French. Great for international sourcing!"

Yeah!

"my CV" | "my resume" cloud.computing "download my resume" cloud.computing "download my cv" cloud.computing "my vitae" cloud.computing "download my resume" intitle:for | of | my cloud.computing " télécharger mon cv " l'informatique intitle:de



I have 2 strategies in mind.

3 Find people who want to be contacted by email or phone

"email me at * " cloud.computing "call me at * " cloud.computing "phone me at " cloud.computing "call my mobile" cloud.computing "call my cell phone" cloud.computing


Mmm… Gotta love that low hanging-fruit.

4 Find people based on personal branding pages

More searches to try: site:*.brandyourself.com “cloud computing” site:flavors.me “cloud computing” site:vizify.com intitle:bio “cloud computing” site:hi.im “cloud computing” site:pixelhub.me “cloud computing” site:zerply.com “cloud computing” site:visualize.me “cloud computing”

You may want to try a search on “Let’s Lunch” as well.*

*http://letslunch.com/search

5 Find company employees on Twitter

Keep in mind that not all companies have public twitter lists of their employees.

Its still a decent hack.

I honestly don’t know. What do you think?

6 Track people by URL shorteners

site:tinyurl.com ("software * engineer" | "software developer") (he | she) -jobs -apply

site:bit.ly ("software * engineer" | "software developer") (he | she) -jobs -apply

site:goo.gl ("software * engineer" | "software developer") (he | she) -jobs -apply Not sure if this is cool or not but, it seems to

work well.

So, what’s going on with this search? People share shortened links on social media. By focusing my search on short URLs, I am sourcing leads from info that people have been sharing online.

More short URLs to try:

site:Ow.ly site:Su.pr

I honestly don’t know. What do you think?

Look up the hottest articles about cybersecurity.

7 Attract talent to you by sharing interesting content

a. Find a hot article based on the jobs you want to fill. Go to www.buzzsumo.com

http://www.buzzsumo.com/


b. Shorten the URL with a personalized Sniply. Go to www.snip.ly

This has a free version and a premium service.

http://www.snip.ly/


c. Share the Sniply URL anywhere and everywhere on social media.

Now you have recruitment advertising on all the articles you share with a Sniply URL.

Too cool!

Hat tip to @mobidextrous

I have a few tips, but I would love to hear yours.

I’ll go first.

8 Find competing technology in order to loosen up job requirements

Having trouble finding “ruby” developers? Ask your client if they are open to competing

products like Java, C# or Perl.

This works on Google too. Just sayin’…

9 Get involved with communities that are exploding with growth

An Incomplete List of Communities on Slack — Medium http://buff.ly/1JW13rw

Start a group on Slack! Why? • More attention, low

competition • Higher engagement since its

real –time • Its free

Read: How and Why to Create a Community With Slack http://buff.ly/1Q1zXAx

“Slack” is a real-time messaging app. Mostly co-workers use it to stay in touch with one another. (Reminds me of Yammer.)

http://buff.ly/1JW13rw

10 A cool tool you can use ;-)

Okay, your turn! What cool tools are you using these days?

Feel free to tweet me some more tips later! :-)

Contact me:

Jim Stroud Senior Director RPO Recruitment Strategies & Support LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jimstroud Twitter: @jimstroud

At least, for now.

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