Recruiter's Essential Tips

We have a lot of social networking sites and the most popular among them are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. However, for a recruiter, though they use all of the three and many such social networks, LinkedIn is the most preferred of all social networks. Why? LinkedIn has about 300+ million users. What's more? LinkedIn has about 187,000,000 unique monthly visitors. For every second, two new professionals join LinkedIn. The users are spread across 200+ countries.      Recruiters can access a huge pool of candidates all at one place. The search & advanced search features and LinkedIn Groups further help you to find the right candidates.   So how can recruiters make the most of this popular and potential recruiting platform? Try the following:   Create an impressive company page that will help job seekers to find you. Ensure that you are active on LinkedIn. With respect to posting jobs, spend time to write accurate and descriptive job ads that clearly conv

Add caption Knowing the latest trends in recruiting will certainly help recruiters, both in-house and third party recruiters, to assess whether they are up to date with the industry trends and modify their recruiting strategies accordingly to stay in the race. As we are in the halfway stage in the year 2015, LinkedIn has published a report on the latest recruiting trends and its impact on the industry. Sourcing new hires When it comes to sourcing new talent, online job boards (74%) still tops the list despite the tremendous growth and popularity of social and professional networks. However, things are improving and there has been a substantial increase in social media recruiting (59%). Top social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter have helped recruiters access the talent pool much easier and faster than before. The report also revealed company career websites (64%) and internal recruiting (62%) as some of the other popular sourcing methods.          Mobile S

The following search script will help you to build a list of candidate profiles from a specific industry. The search syntax is: "Industry" (site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub) -'pub/dir' For example, if you want to build a list of candidate profiles from "Computer Software" industry, the search script will be: "Computer Software" (site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub) -'pub/dir'

The following search script will help you to search AOL for LinkedIn profiles from a specific country. The search syntax is: Input_Keyword (site:«country domain».linkedin.com/in OR site:«country domain».linkedin.com/pub) -'pub/dir' For example, if you want to build a list of profiles from "Telecommunications Industry" in Canada , the search script will be: Telecommunications(site:ca.linkedin.com/in OR site:ca.linkedin.com/pub) -'pub/dir' You can change the industry and country based on your requirements. Source: eGrabber Newsletter

You can search Google for LinkedIn profiles that belong to any LinkedIn group. The Google search syntax is as follows: "LinkedIn group name logo" [site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub] For example, if you are looking for profiles from social media marketing group, the Google search string will be: "social media marketing logo" [site:linkedin.com/in OR site:linkedin.com/pub] Source: eGrabber Newsletter

Recruiter Lite is a premium feature that helps you to find candidates faster than the basic free account. It helps you to: See full names & profiles of your entire network. This helps you to find 35x more profiles. Access 8 premium search filters that enable you to refine your candidate search based on years of experience, seniority, function, company size, interests, etc. Save searches and create search alerts so that you don't miss potential candidates. You can save up to 10 searches. Access Recruiter Lite on your mobile. Improves productivity and interaction with candidates. Source: eGrabber Newsletter