Sourcing is cool

One of the slides I will be using in the presentations / workshops about Candidate Sourcing upcoming fall.

Things I like to do during spotlight time is get you to think about some cool tricks there are in “candidate sourcing” and to help you out in finding what you think you can’t find.

If you like to know more about sourcing, come and meet me and learn more about why Sourcing is Cool at

#MCR12, 4th of October
#TruLondon, 22nd of October get-together with Glenn Cathy, Irina Shamaeva, Martin Lee, Oscar Mager and others *WOOOT*
#HRTNL12, 15th of November
#TruAmsterdam, 22nd of November
#DWWD12, 6th of December

TIP try in Google this search: site:twitter.com #mcr12

Sourcing candidates via the web

Here a short video on Sourcing candidates in some of the search engines

This video shows what kind of results the different search engines may give you while searching for a Java Developer.

If you like to see more on this topic, ask me +316 421 21 451

ERE 2008, Workshop Passive Candidates for Busy Recruiters

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