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5 Tips to improve your sourcing strategy

One of the keys for successful candidate sourcing is to have a thorough knowledge about your sourcing cycle. It gives you enough confidence to fill a job position. Try the following: Search for resumes in job boards. Get the best possible matches; you can also save the search and set alerts to get the search results delivered to your inbox. Use LinkedIn and find relevant profiles that match your criteria. Look for suitable candidates in your internal database.  Get referrals from your existing employees. N ow, you have a candidate pool to work on. You can also post jobs in various sites, forums and social networking sites to further your chances of finding the right candidate.

4 Tips to hire the right candidates

Hiring the right candidates has always been one of the biggest challenges for recruiters and hiring managers. You cannot term someone as the “right” candidate based on her qualification and skills alone. You have to do a lot more than that. Here are a few tips that will help you hire the right candidates. Decide upon the qualifications that are mandatory and skills that can be learnt on the job. Have clear objectives for various stages of your interview process. Hire candidates who fit into your company culture, understand your company’s core values and help you achieve your long-term goals. Always build a talent pipeline of qualified candidates – tap into social media / professional networks and make use of employee referral programs.

Facebook Recruitment - Why & How?

This infographic illustrates why Facebook recruitment is important and offers tips for recruiters on how to recruit candidates using Facebook. via mashable.com

Search LinkedIn profiles with multi-lingual proficiency

You can search Google for Linkedin profiles with multi-lingual proficiency. The Google search syntax is as follows: site:linkedin.com (inurl:in OR inurl:pub) -inurl:dir (“keyword” OR “keyword”) (“language * native or bilingual” OR “language * full professional” OR “language * professional working”) For example, if you want to search for system administrator or network administrator profiles with multi-lingual proficiency, the Google search string will be: site:linkedin.com (inurl:in OR inurl:pub) -inurl:dir (“system administrator” OR “network administrator”) (“French * native or bilingual” OR “french * full professional” OR “french * professional working”)

5 reasons why recruiters should use Twitter?

Twitter, one of the most popular social networking sites, has been growing at a phenomenal rate. Here are 5 reasons why recruiters should use Twitter: Twitter has 500 million users. In a recruiter’s perspective, you have a large, diverse candidate pool that you can reach by a simple tweet.    Using hashtags, you can search for information on any topic of your interest; get to know about job openings by companies and candidates looking for jobs.   You can check who is mentioning you and who is retweeting your updates. This can help you to initiate a conversation. A majority of the users use Twitter on their mobile phones too. So, you can instantly reach your candidates on Twitter. Your followers opt-in to receive your tweets. So tweet relevant updates that are useful, informative and engaging.

5 Tips to hire great people

Hiring great people is not easy. Hiring people who fit into your work culture and share your company’s vision is a challenge. Here are a few tips that will help you hire great people. Write an impressive job description and post a killer job ad. Maximize the visibility of your job postings to get better response. Make the most of your network – professional & social. Diversify your search. Use various online & offline sources & strategies. Evaluate & optimize your hiring process periodically.

The fastest way to search & import resumes into your database

If searching resumes is a vital component of recruiting process, importing resumes from various sources into your database is far more important. These are the two areas where most of the recruiters lose their time and lag behind their competitors. If you are one of those recruiters losing your opportunities to your competitors, then you need to try ResumeGrabber JobSuite. ResumeGrabber JobSuite is a powerful tool that helps you to instantly search resumes from the Internet and import resumes into your database. ResumeGrabber JobSuite has 100+ Boolean search strings that enable you to find resumes with a click of a button. ResumeGrabber JobSuite enables you to import resumes from any source – search engine results, social networking sites, job boards, PC folders, emails, etc. All you need to do is: Just enter the resume keyword and click Find . ResumeGrabber JobSuite instantly searches the Internet and displays the resumes in a few seconds.  Now, select th