Recruiter's Essential Tips

Sourcing top talent is still considered as one of the major challenges faced by recruiters. With talent shortage on the rise, it is essential for recruiters to have a tab on the latest recruiting trends and follow strategies that will help them to source top talent in the future. Try the following: Social networks - A recent study revealed that social networks are going to be one of the major sources to look for top candidates, not only active candidates but also passive candidates. A lot of job candidates have started using social networks to look for jobs. Statistics reveal that about 52% of active job seekers use Facebook to look for jobs followed by LinkedIn 38% and Twitter 34%. So recruiters need to have social media recruiting as one of their strategies to succeed. For recruiters who are already in the social media space, they need to focus more to make the most of it and for recruiters who are yet to get into social media, it's high time they consider this as on

Job boards and LinkedIn are some of the great sources to search candidates. However, it may not be helpful if the resumes are old and if potential candidates don’t reply. The best solution is to source potential passive candidates who are interested and aware of your company background. Try the following: Consider candidates in your ATS. Maybe they didn’t make it sometime ago but now they have improved their skills or added a few certifications. Search for new talent via career page in website, job fairs, networking, career development programs, etc. E ncourage employee referral programs. Ask your employees to refer their friends & former colleagues with the desired skills.

Talent sourcing has never been the same since social media came into existence. With social media taking center stage, especially in the last couple of years, it has drastically changed the way companies recruited and hired prospective candidates. Companies ranging from Fortune 500s to small startups are now using social media as one of their key recruiting strategies. Social media broke the shackles of traditional recruiting methods and it helps recruiters speed up their recruiting processes. Geographical boundaries have now been reduced to just a status update or a tweet. Employers, recruiters and prospective job candidates are now able to reach each other in a fraction of a second which was not the case in the past. Statistics reveal that the year 2011 has been a year of social media. More than 14 million people have used social media to find their last job and an increasingly large number of companies have started using social media to recruit and hire the top talent. Based

One of the toughest challenges faced by HR professionals and recruiters is to find the right candidate for the right job. Despite having several job boards, there are still a lot of hard-to-fill jobs. The reason is that these job boards are unable to provide the right candidate and they are quite expensive too. So what next? The solution is sourcing passive resumes.  Passive resumes are resumes of candidates who are already employed and are not actively looking for jobs but they are “actively passive” – i.e. they will be just monitoring the job market trends and opportunities. If an attractive offer comes their way, they might be interested in it. These candidates post their resumes in social networking sites, blogs, personal websites, professional forums, etc. The major advantage of passive candidates is that they are a hidden talent pool and are not contacted by your competitors. Passive sourcing is less expensive as these resumes are available in the Internet for "FREE."

Source:- eGrabber Newsletters There are many paid services that allow you to get comprehensive lists of people working for specific companies. But the best thing is that some have a free component or pages that can be viewed publicly using Google. The Google search script to search company contacts (name and title) from Zoominfo is site:zoominfo.com inurl:people (keyword) "company" For example to search for contacts of Directors at Sun Microsystems, the search script will be site:zoominfo.com inurl:people (manager OR director) "Sun Microsystems" Clicking on the results will display the contacts' name and their actual job title in the company. Use this script to quickly source passive candidates.