the sourcing tip mashup
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The Sourcing Tip MashUp
Gail Houston - @ghouston – Feb 2016DFW TRN Board Member
Be Smart - Understanding Your Market
Be Smart– Become Data Driven with Pipeline Reports
Run ATS Report on “uninterviewed applicants” from your targeted companies
Offer RejectsUniversity Offer Rejects
Regrettable Losses
One Master Spreadsheet Per Skill SetEvery Applicant Interviewed
Every Applicant That Responded to OutreachAlways Pull From This List First
Be Smart - Don’t Ignore The Job Boards
Niche Sites
Getting Social – LI Company Page
Getting Social - Make It a Conversation
The Brand Responds
Getting Social - LI Company Page Best Practice Tip for Job Post
Best Practice TipHave Recruiters and Employees Respond to and Share the LI Job Postings
LI States 70% of company Followers interested in a job
Getting Social - Your LinkedIn Personal Brand
Photo is a Must NowHeadline - Includes Recruiter, Company Name and Skill You Recruit For
Include Visible Email Address (Contact, Summary, Job, and Advice To Contact)Add Websites – But Select Other So You Can Name (Brand) Your Site
Make Sure All Parts of Your Profile are Public and Customize Your URL
Getting Social – LinkedIn Profile View Ranking
What’s Your Number?
Getting Social – Personalize inmails or emails
Read Their ProfileMake a Personal ConnectionCheck Out Slideshare, YouTubeGitHub, StackOverflow, Quora,About.Me, Google+, Instagram
Getting SocialDon’t Just Post Jobs
Getting SocialHelp Your Hiring Manager – Everyone Recruits
Use key skill word and Intuit in your job title (headline)Headline 120 characters, searchable by LinkedIn and Google
Provide ready made “status updates” for them to post
Getting Social Yes, We Want You To Use Facebook To Recruitbut not to spy Control your privacy settings:
• Public (Everyone)• Search for me• Send me a message• Education• Work• Websites (if appropriate)• Bio and Favorite quote (if
appropriate)
• Friends Only• Birthday (never include year)• Religious views• Political affiliations• Photos• Videos• Wall Posts
• Review Apps
Let People Find You Your Public - Facebook ProfileShould Look Like Your Public LinkedIn Profile
Getting SocialFacebook - Add Your Contact Information
Tip Hide Your FB Email And Make Your Work EmailPublic
Getting Social - Searching on Facebook
http://www.intel-sw.com/blog/facebook-search/
Getting Social Emailing People Directly From Facebook
Look at the info after facebook.com – in this case gail.houston – send email to [email protected] and it goes to the address that is associated with their Facebook account
Getting Social - Create Your Twitter Brand
You must have photo
Header photo optional but becoming more common
Bio – 160 charactersKeywords – recruiter and area of focus
You can also include email
Getting Social - Your Twitter Settings
User name
Visible email
Set Time zone to schedule tweets
Register yourself on sites like www.twellow.com – twitter yellow pages
Go Thru All Settings Tabs
Getting SocialTwitter – Create List or Find and Subscribe To List
Thinking DifferentlySourcing from YouTube
Find them on YouTubePersonalize Your LI or Email Outreach
Thinking DifferentlySourcing from SlideShare
Learn about what you are recruiting for
Thinking DifferentlyWho is providing Answers on Quora?
Thinking DifferentlyPinterest for Talent? Yep!
Finding EmailsWe Constantly Make Our Job Harder Than It Has To BeSee someone on LI but you don’t have time to wait for them to respond to an Inmail• Check your ATS first – you would be surprised how often they are there• Ask a trusted connection if they have it and are willing to share• Ask them to connect in LI• Look in their profile – you would be surprised how often it is right there
Finding Emails - Connectifier connectifier.com Connectifier works with LinkedIn, Indeed or GitHub to provide additional information like email addresses and phone numbers Connectifier Search allows users to search candidate database directly
Automated spreadsheets
Finding Emails - Prophet http://recruitingtools.com/prophet
Finding Emails - Find Any Email – findanyemail.net
Tool uses publically available data to connect and validate email addresses on over 1.5 b social media accounts. Doesn’t always work but worth a try – currently in beta
Finding Emails - Exporting Emails from Your LI Connections
Finding Lists – Paid and Free
https://www.irs.gov/uac/Active-Enrolled-Agents-Listing
http://cpa-accountants.net/intro
http://irs.treasury.gov/rpo/rpo.jsf
Finding List - Niche CPA Site https://www.cpadirectory.com/about.cfm
Trying Beta’s - Talent Signals - https://talentsignals.com• Free During Beta Period (and they
don’t require a credit card)• New Profiles Every Morning (they scan
social platforms like Meetups, Github, StackOverflow, etc.)
• Improve Success Rate with personal messages because you can see social context of the candidate which might include attending conference, recent tweets etc. They also talk about no message limit since you are not messaging thru their tool
• Understand your candidates better – gain insight into conferences they might attend or meetings they are going to
Connect with Gail [email protected]@ghoustonConnect on LinkedIn - http://tinyurl.com/link2gailhttp://www.slideshare.net/ghouston