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Passive Candidate Sourcing - Target the Right Talent

Any recruiter who is assigned with the task of finding the right fit for a job opening has to essentially put on the shoes of a treasure hunter. Yes! Recruiting the best candidate for every single assignment is no cakewalk. When it comes to sourcing, Internet is the river of life for recruiters. And the list of avenues where they hunt is numerous. From Social Networking profiles to Job Boards, the options are plenty and the resumes available are uncountable. But most times the best talent remains hidden and cannot be reached through traditional methods. The buzz of passive candidate sourcing has been hovering around the recruiting space for a while now and the most successful recruiters are the ones who have mastered this art. To be fair Boolean Search Experts have had the cherry so far when it comes to finding passive resumes. The simple reason being the major proportion of their sourcing results are passive candidate profiles. While their counter parts are held up with weedi

Use Online News Sites to Find Passive Candidates

Did you know that you can use online news websites to prospect for passive candidates? The Google search syntax to search news sites is site:online news website "keyword" For example, if you are interested in sourcing Software Architects from The Seattle Times' website, the search string will be as follows site:seattletimes.nwsource.com "software architect" You can also use the OR operator to search multiple news sites (site:seattletimes.nwsource.com OR site:al.com) "software architect" If you do not know the URLs of websites of newspapers, go to www.onlinenewspapers.com to look them up.

Source Resumes from Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc

Source:eGrabberNewsletter I use the Internet to search for resumes of passive candidates. But my searches often return a number of irrelevant and unwanted results, which is frustrating and time-consuming. Is there a way I could zero in on the relevant resumes without having to be a search engine expert? ResumeGrabber is specifically designed to assist recruiters who search for resumes on the Internet. Simply enter your keywords (such as Java programmers) and ResumeGrabber will use the power of search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) to search matching resumes from -     Internet Communities such as GeoCities, Angelfire, etc. -     Social Networking Sites -     Free resume sites including Craigslist and many others -     Largest ISP’s such as ATT, Earthlink, AOL and others -     Popular blog hosts such as bloggers.com, etc => Find business email address and phone number for each profile => Export them to an ATS or Excel. This way, you get an actionable, ready