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Passive candidate recruiter competency model webcast 12-8-2011 HANDOUT and Video.

HANDOUT for Creating Virtual Talent Community webcast - Nov 3 2011.

HANDOUT and VIDEO of Quality of Hire webcast 10/20/2011

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Referral fees

I recently placed a candidate I received as a referral from my LinkedIn network. I'd like to thank the referral source but am not sure what’s a reasonable referral fee or thank you. I’d appreciate any suggestions and recommendations. Thank you, Ira See More

Discussion posted by Ira Brown 17 hours ago

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Rheanne Meyers is now a member of Lou Adler's Recruiter's Wall 21 hours ago

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Thomas De Brun and Lori-Anne Meyers joined Lou Adler's Recruiter's Wall Wednesday

Kulpreet, Jay Spears, Michael Abrams and 12 more joined Lou Adler's Recruiter's Wall Tuesday

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Referral fees

Started by Ira Brown in General 17 hours ago.

Are you in the grips of the Staffing Spiral of Doom Catch-22 1 Reply

I just posted a video on YouTube walking through this slide. This is the new summary of our hiring manager training course.The key point - most companies use the wrong approach (The Staffing…Continue

Tags: interviewing, passive, candidates, behavioral, Hiring

Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing. Last reply by Jim OHara on Tuesday.

Recruiter Competency Model - What are the most important skills for recruiting passive candidates

Let's use this discussion to highlight and discuss the key competencies required to recruit passive candidates. Here's a graphic of the model we use. …Continue

Tags: candidates, passive, recruiting

Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing Jan 11.

ERE article for Dec 1 2011 on the importance of aligning business and talent acquisition strategies 1 Reply

In an upcoming ERE article (Dec 1, 2001) I make the contention that lack of alignment between a company’s business and talent acquisition strategies prevents the company from hiring enough top people. This lack of alignment also impacts recruiting…Continue

Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing. Last reply by Corey Leuders Dec 7, 2011.

How long a new graduate developer retains his first job employment?

Can someone please share an insight of some sort of statistic referring to how long a new graduate developer retains his first job employment?Continue

Started by Marija Ivanovska in Technology Nov 14, 2011.

How to Measure Quality of Hire

The recording and handout from the Oct 20 webcast are now available (left side). Use this discussion to post your views, thoughts, ideas,…Continue

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Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing Oct 21, 2011.

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LinkedIn Survey: Job-hunting Status of Fully-employed Professionals

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Find the Intrinsic Motivator to Attract More Passive Candidates

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Handling "Show me the money" objection

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Fastest Way To Find Passive Candidates In the Internet

Resumes are everywhere on the Internet. But, if you are not a resume search expert, you will be hard-pressed in finding resumes of your choice. Simple search queries on search engines will return a number of unwanted and irrelevant results. Manually sorting resumes from search results can be a tedious and distracting task. This is where a resume search software such as ResumeGrabber Suite can help you to instantly find passive candidates on the…

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Posted by Umamaheswari.K on January 2, 2012 at 5:00am

Resume Parser Software to Extract your Resumes & Increase your productivity

Now-a-days, most of the business industries having tough competition especially for recruiters and staffing professionals.

Recruiters have to spend more time in extracting the candidate's resumes, because they manually searching for qualified resumes to find the right person for the job openings. Recent head hunters are searching the resumes from different medium like search engines, job boards, social / professional networking sites, blogs, personal websites and portals,… Continue

Posted by Umamaheswari.K on October 14, 2011 at 4:32am

Resources you can use – The Network

The Network is a formal alliance of 36 leading recruitment job boards from over 80 offices committed to online recruitment in more than 70 countries. The Network is now the biggest online recruitment solution in the world, used by more than 1 000 customers. With access to a pool of over 82 million jobseekers across 70 countries, you won't…

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Posted by Umamaheswari.K on October 3, 2011 at 5:19am

Instantly import qualified resumes and build a resume database in no time

The Internet is one of the major hunting grounds to source resumes and build a candidate resume database. Social networking sites, professional networking sites(such as LinkedIn), blogs, personal websites, forums, etc. are some of the sources where you can find candidates. Surveys reveal that recruiters spend a great deal of time to source and import resumes. This is where recruiters who are well-versed with complex Boolean search scripts stand out from the crowd.

Boolean search is a… Continue

Posted by Umamaheswari.K on September 23, 2011 at 1:16am

Google search script to search candidates in Google Plus

Source: eGrabber Newsletter

Did you know that you can search candidates in Google Plus using the site command?

The Google search syntax is as follows:

site:(City | State) Keyword

For example, if you want to search C++ programmers in San Jose, California, your Google search string will be:

site:plus.google.com (San…

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Posted by Umamaheswari.K on September 3, 2011 at 1:40am

Source Candidates from Social Media in no Time

Social media recruiting has taken precedence over the traditional recruiting methods in the recent years. Millions of users join one social network or other on a daily basis. A recent survey has revealed that 82% of job seekers in the U.S. use social networks and 14.4 million job seekers have used social networks to find their last job. Almost 90% of the companies in the U.S. use social media as a recruiting strategy.

Social media recruiting shot to fame because of two reasons. The… Continue

Posted by Umamaheswari.K on August 10, 2011 at 4:02am