Recruiter's Essential Tips

 Source: eGrabber Newsletter You can search for LinkedIn profiles with experience in a particular domain. The Google search syntax is as follows: keyword (site:www.linkedin.com/pub OR site:www.linkedin.com/in) -"pub/dir" .. For example, if you want to search LinkedIn profiles with RFID experience, the Google search string will be RFID (site:www.linkedin.com/pub OR site:www.linkedin.com/in) -"pub/dir" 2000..2010

 Source: eGrabber Newsletter Asking the right questions is crucial to win more business & referrals and recruitment is no exception to this. If you are providing exceptional service to your clients, they will be always happy to share their experiences and make referrals for you. But you need to ask the right questions. Whenever you provide a service to a client, don't forget to ask the following questions: 1. What else can I help you with? -  This is an open question and it allows the client to think and let you know if there is any requirement. 2. Who else might be able to use my services? - Again, this question makes the client to think. So, you need to be patient enough to allow the client to think and answer.

You can use the site command in Google to search candidates with Google Profiles. The Google search syntax is as follows : site:(City | State) Keyword For example, if you want to search SAP consultants in San Jose, California, your Google search string will be site:profiles.google.com (San Jose | California) SAP The profiles display the candidate’s name, occupation, employer name, education and the places where the candidates have lived before. If you want to know more about such search strings, please try our resume sourcing-cum-import tool - ResumeGrabber Suite. It includes 100+ expert boolean strings developed by leading industry experts for sourcing resumes through Google, Yahoo, Bing and Social / Professional network sites. It also mass imports resumes from Google search results, Outlook email, PC folders and automatically transfers them to your database.  Download your free ResumeGrabber trial here: http://www.egrabber.com/TU4221L97

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Source: eGrabber Newsletter Social media is the easiest and the cost-effective way for recruiters to reach candidates but the unfortunate thing is, most of them don’t engage. Widen your engagement intersection to make the most of social media. Always remember to do the following: 1.     Think about how to engage candidates easily and make it easier for candidates to engage. 2.     While engaging, try to understand more about the candidates who engage with you. 3.     Start a talent pool or community. Build and maintain relationships with your community members. 4.     Once you build relationships, reciprocate to the candidate’s message. They want a job. 5.     Experiment and find out what’s working, what’s not working and why.

Recruiters and hiring managers spend a lot of time to source resumes and extract resumes. Generally when you search for resumes in search engines, you get a lot of results. Along with the resumes, the search results also contain other unwanted information. So, to pick only the resumes from the search results, you need to manually click each result and check whether it is a resume or not, and then segregate the resumes alone from the search results. This is a time-consuming and tiresome task. If you are well-versed with Boolean search strings, you can use various combinations of search strings to find only the resumes from the search results. But again, you need to manually execute each search script to source candidates from different locations, different skill sets, experience and various other criteria and it eventually takes away most of your productive hours which means there is every chance that you might lose a potential candidate or client. This is where a complete end-to-e

Source: eGrabber Newsletter In a recent newsletter we had mentioned how your success as a recruiter in future will be determined by how good you are in social media recruiting - building a community of potential candidates using LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. Here are things you should do to increase your followers on Twitter:     *      Have a detailed bio and a picture     *      Follow people you know and invite them to follow you     *      Search for people in your target talent pool.              (If you specialize in hiring CPAs, follow CPAs and get them to follow you)     *      Use TweepSearch, PeopleBrowsr, Twellow, etc. to find people, categories and locations     *      Tweet appropriate and useful content regularly    By setting aside time and doing this regularly, you can grow your network quickly.