Recruiter's Essential Tips

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Source: eGrabber Newsletter Do you run job postings with the same message, similarly worded, on all sites? A job ad that is effective on a job board (a place for active candidates) will not perform equally on a social networking site (a good source for passive candidates). You should not be surprised if I told you that, for the same ad, the response you get in LinkedIn will be different from that on Twitter or Facebook. So in designing ads, you must understand how the different sites and networks work, the audiences these sites attract and their general mood. It is better that you always come up with 3 messages for every job opening you would like to advertise - 1 each for general purpose sites, niche sites and social networking sites - for maximum effectiveness.

Source: eGrabber Newsletter You can program or restrict your Internet resume searches to return only resumes that contain phone or email address inside them. All the major search engines allow you to write search scripts that let you do this. The search syntax to find resumes that contain phone or email from Bing.com is "Keyword" intitle:resume phone email For example, to search for profiles of Certified Public Accountants, the search string will be Certified Public Accountant intitle:resume phone email You can even eliminate sample resumes in your search by including the following at the end of the above search string -submit -openings -template -tips -submission -sample -examples -wizard

Source: eGrabber Newsletter MySpace, one of the most popular social networking sites, is no longer the exclusive domain of teenagers. The average age for people on this site is now about 35 years. There are millions of MySpace users and many of them are professionals (potential passive candidates). The search syntax for finding profiles on MySpace is site:www.myspace.com keyword If you are looking for passive prospects from a geographic area, you can include the state code at the end of the search string. For, example, if you are looking for profiles of Certified Public Accountants from California, the search string will be site:www.myspace.com Certified Public Accountant (California | CA) Use the above search technique and explore the vast possibilities that MySpace can offer, especially to locate those hard-to-find candidates for your assignments.