Cold-calling people you do not know, especially for candidate sourcing, could be a big time-waster. Instead, apply the "low-hanging fruit principle of selling" as your sourcing strategy - call your existing candidate database first. These are people you have worked with earlier and have a good relationship. Make sure you get 2-3 high-quality referrals on every call.
The ability to get high-quality referrals is often the secret behind recruiters who are highly successful and considered experts or extremely professional. You need to pre-qualify every referral and only call those who are worthy. A great referral will call you back if you mention the name of the person who referred her.
By focusing on your existing database first, you at least know that you are calling people who are good and who will call you back.
Source:-eGrabber Newsletters
There are many paid services that allow you to get comprehensive lists of people working for specific companies. But the best thing is that some have a free component or pages that can be viewed publicly using Google.
The Google search script to search company contacts (name and title) from Zoominfo is
site:zoominfo.com inurl:people (keyword) "company"
For example to search for contacts of Directors at Sun Microsystems, the search script will be
site:zoominfo.com inurl:people (manager OR director) "Sun Microsystems"
Clicking on the results will display the contacts' name and their actual job title in the company. Use this script to quickly source passive candidates.
Twitter has quickly reached millions of users and it has grown tremendously over the past couple of years. It has grown at a staggering rate of 1382% as of February 2009 (YOY) and is competing with the leading social networking giants like Facebook and MySpace.
Twitter is gaining more popularity and its user base is rapidly increasing on a daily basis. A lot of Twitter-based tools, widgets, and services are now available. Twitter is being used in information gathering, networking, businesses, advertising, corporate branding, recruiting and in a lot of other areas as well.
The recruiting and staffing industry has realized the potential of Twitter and using it as a recruiting tool. Recruiters and employers have started to post job openings in Twitter. Also, the recruiters are using Twitter to identify active as well as passive candidates.
For example, to search for profiles of "Sales Manger" in twitter, here is a simple Google search script:
site:twitter.com bio * sales manager
You can also search twitter profiles in the below websites
http://www.twellow.com
http://www.tweepsearch.com
The most encouraging sign for a recruiter during this recession is that there are plenty of free resumes available in the internet. Yes, hundreds and thousands of resumes are flooding the social networking sites, resume sites, personal websites and blogs. Now the challenge is how to import those resumes and build a perfect resume database?
If you have to do it manually, you need to visit each website/profile and click to download the resumes, which is a very tiresome and time-consuming task. Moreover, a recruiter cannot afford to waste a lot of time on a daily basis as this might end up in losing a client or a top talent. This is where an automation tool like ResumeGrabber Pro can provide you a huge advantage.
ResumeGrabber Pro automates resume data entry and imports resumes from the Internet, email and PC folders in a single click. It also helps you to quickly screen the resumes using keywords. You can export the resumes directly to ATSs, CRMs and Contact Managers.
ResumeGrabber Pro not only imports resumes from the Internet, but also helps you save a lot of time that you can utilize in other key areas.
Download the trial version of ResumeGrabber Pro today and try it yourself.
Source: eGrabber Newsletters
Free-For-Recruiters.com has a resume directory with thousands of resumes. The Google syntax to search resumes on Free-For-Recruiters.com is as follows:
Keyword site:Free-For-Recruiters.com inurl:resumes State
For example, to search for resumes of software engineers in the state of California, your search script will be
Software Engineer site:Free-For-Recruiters.com inurl:resumes CA
You can replace the keyword and the state in the above script to search for resumes of your choice from preferred locations.
Note: You can also use the inbuilt Google search option on this website to search resumes.
Source: eGrabber Newsletters
An innovative recruiting practice is one that reduces the time spent on recruiting, allowing you to fill positions in half the time, with higher quality candidates. You can achieve this either by way of adopting advanced technology or by implementing new and improved business processes. Innovative recruiting practices not only effects improved efficiency on your internal team, but make you a preferred choice for your clients.
Look at technology alternatives and other innovations that will enable you to quickly search quality talent on the Internet, reduce time spent in pre-screening processes, grow your pipeline with quality talent for future hires, implement consistent communication with talent, etc.
