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Jason thank you for chairing the ERE expo Fall 2008!
My final thoughts, why was ERE a succes:
Lot of open minded recruiters, lot of smart thinking recruiters, lot of enthusiastic recruiters, lot of creative recruiters, lot of interesting recruiting tools, lot of funny give aways, lot of very good networking events around the sessions, lot of good food and drinks, lot of serious thoughts, lot of fun!
See you all next time, by the way, contact me whenever you come to Amsterdam!
Left to right: Alfons Boltjes, Bolwork, Peer Goudsmit, Peersearch, Geert-Jan Waasdorp, Intelligence Group, Marko Hol, HRP Consult, Gordon Lokenberg, InterimRS
We all like to thank everybody who attended this ERE expo. It was awesome, you were great!
What happened today?
Jason Warner, Conference Chair, opened with an overview of Time Magazine frontpages over the years, all spot on what is happening today in World economy.
Jan Hopkins, first keynote speaker discussed what does economy do with us and what is hapening in recruitment. The example like not being able to relocate, because you can’t sell your house, there are no buyers and so on. Very interesting overview, with all the things happening out there.
Kevin Wheeler, gave an insight in the global recruitment issues. One thing for sure, in recruitment we need to go more global! And of course train our labourmarket. Shortage on skills will keep on growing. In two weeks I will meet Kevin Wheeler again in Amsterdam at the Global Recruitment conference. I will go on blogging about this topic than. It is very on topic and part of your Recruitment Focus.
About the FUTURE…
Michael Marlatt is an Evangelist, actually what I do, he does in English, and is even more throwing sites to you to use than I ever did. He is good!
His presentation was about how to use the web as being a recruiter. Today a lot of tools and techniques are being showed to us. And the question is what do we, THE recruiters, do with it.
His opinion about this is focus and get SMART,
Synchronize, Mobilize, Appropriately equiped, RSS enabled, Tuned in.
Being Smart means move on, technology does, why don’t you? So you used to have all your docs etc., on your desktop, than you moved it all to your laptop, now use your webtop!
Get your gear into the CLOUD, by using all the webapps that are easy to use for you.
I am not going to name all the sites he mentioned, to many 
But here are some good ones to start with:
sugarsync
icerocket
It has been a wonderfull day again #ERE Expo
Workshop by Shally Steckerl and Glenn Gutmacher about Sourcing on the Master Level.
In the morning session we saw what is possible if you like to search on Google and others for resumes.
This session is really about what else is out there to do…
I am not going to reveal all this in todays posting, there is a lot written on this already. But having a training about this is really the only way to get it.
Glenn and Shally have done an awesome research on all different commands, searchstrategies and “this”-searchengine only commands.
It is really like a jam session with all these commands to check out best results.
I like that.
To see how we are doing out here, I got this photo from ERE.net
Today we, 5 members of the RecruitersGuild from Holland, entered the ERE Fall Expo 2008.
Geert-Jan Waasdorp, Alfons Boltjes, Peer Goudsmit, Marko Hol and me.
Now we are at the Workshop by Shally Steckerl and Glenn Gutmacher about how to empty the searchengines on resumes.
The presentation is very powerfull, 39 attendees are in here.
The first part is about Recruiting Technology and what is out there. Now we are in the part of differences amongst results in searchengines, using ranking.thumbshots.com.
Now working on the example: SAP FICO profile.
Step 1: where do we find these vacancies, which part of the country.
This means, where there is a demand there are people as well.
Step 2: what kind of keywords are being used in the vacancies
They will appear in resumes… Check out onelook.com for more keywords, close to the ones you already have.
Step 3: think of what people write down in the resume…
Of course not all the tricks will be in this blog, but try wordle.net
Step 4: Use the searchtips, jobmachine.net, get specific and break it down to approx. 250 results.
Easy for you scrolling result by change number of results per page to a 100.
Awesome just received a Cheatsheet for Recruiters!
By the way the asteriks in Google is a word place holder. try: “senior * manager” yahoo
Step 5: Checkout website patterns to refine your search.
Nice to know only 1 filetype per search in Google.com and more per search on Live.com
Okay, here we come to search on Social networking sites. To start with Linkedin, and of course the all work more or less the same. This network is still growing, over 34mln users total, growing 300K new users each WEEK. More about Linkedin on JobMachine.net.
Searching on Social Network sites is of course possible via Searchengines, but nowadays a lot of social networks, and especially “social/ business networks” do have good search facilities. Use them.
Wrap up: go out there and enjoy
