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Network on Industry Sites and Broaden your Candidate Search

As recruiters, it is important that we become familiar with websites representing professional associations for positions that we recruit. For example an IT recruiter should be familiar with HDI (http://www.thinkhdi.com/), the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), Women in Technology International (WITI), etc. If you specialize in Enterprise Architects, then be on The Open Group for Enterprise Architecture Forum, etc. These sites provide valuable opportunities for broadening your reach in the business community and getting to know the group's members, many of whom will be qualified job candidates. Often these sites will also post job openings for a fee.

Twitter - A Recruiting Tool??

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows the user to post 140-character tweets (Twitter updates) and display 160-character bios (User profile) in his/her Twitter account. Although the tweets are restricted to 140 characters, the viral effect of Twitter helps the users to convey the messages to hundreds and thousands of Twitter followers in no time. 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

Using Social Networks for Background Screening

Source: eGrabber Newsletters A recent survey titled "Background Screening - Top Technology Trends 2009" said that 1 in 5 employers use social networking sites to make a hiring decision. The trends indicate a considerable, if not major, shift in focus to using non traditional sources - social networks, forums and blogs - for background screening. Here is a simple Google search script that will help you research people's profiles on LinkedIn, MySpace, ZoomInfo, etc. Candidate Name site:xyz.com For example, to search for Chandra Bodapati's (Founder & CEO of eGrabber) profile on LinkedIn, the script will be Chandra Bodapati site:linkedin.com Similarly you can use zoominfo.com, myspace.com, friendster.com and more.