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  • What recruiters need to know about SEO

    by on Nov. 19, 2009

     

    For some in recruiting, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is just another acronym in this already jargon-laden industry. However, SEO is a proven recruitment marketing tactic that has been around for years and should be incorporated into a company's recruiting strategy to increase applicant traffic to the corporate career site.  

    Each month about 775 million searches are conducted on Google, about 226 million of them job related. That means that just under a third of the questions being asked on Google are related to job search. Is your recruitment brand being well represented?

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  • Jason Elias demonstrates his "Top 10 Way Staffing Firms can Increase Billings in a Down Economy"

    by on Aug. 24, 2009

    Staffing firms can increase their billings with Jason Elias creative ideas. Jason runs a successfull niche search firm in Australia, where the economy is getting hit as hard (or harder?) than ours.

    Jason is Australia's representative to the global NPA organization. Not only is he an experienced attorney, and a well established recruiter, but also has an easy presentation style making it a pleasure to watch him present.

    He sent us this summary of the top ten ways he's increase is revenues for his own business in the midst of the worst recession we've faced in 30 ...

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  • Why is Semantic Search Important to Recruiters?

    by on Aug. 19, 2009

    There is just too much confusion about so-called “Boolean search” so I’d like to clarify a few basic things:

    1. The Booleans are simply: AND OR NOT. There, now you know Boolean search.
    2. When recruiters talk about “Boolean search” what they are really talking about is creating search strings using sometimes advanced commands or complex search syntax to query specific fields inside of databases.
    3. Well, that’s the end of my list.

    Search syntax has been around since the beginning of databases. Each “database” (lumping in Monster, Goolge, LinkedIn and Facebook under that term) has its own set of field ...

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  • Act While Others Wait – the Arbita Recruitment Genome Report

    by on July 13, 2009

    In May 2009, Arbita revealed the first survey results from the Recruitment Genome Report. The purpose of this multi-year research project is to define the most effective recruitment practices from among the thousands available.

    Below are my thoughts about the results, but you can download the full 11-page report for yourself here: http://www.arbita.net/Offer/Recruitment-Genome-Report-Download.html

     

    Why is this important to staffing leaders?

    There are so many tools and services in our industry, each vying for your attention and promising to be the only solution you need.  However, many of them are mostly "bells and whistles", providing ...

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  • Why, and How, you can quickly find passive talent on Blogs

    by on March 18, 2009
    Why are blogs still a very important part of our research repertoire?
     
    When it comes to finding passive candidates, today's unemployment reports are a temporary blip in the talent wars. This Sunday's NY Times featured an interesting article about how hard it remains in certain industries and functions to find top talent and that will apply to every industry as the economy rebounds, the huge Boomer generation ages out of the workforce, and new industries requiring unique skills blossom. In-demand professionals rarely have resumes floating around.

    So where can we easily find great talent, now or in the ...

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  • Top 10 reasons why mobile recruiting is here to stay and some say if you don't hop on board you'll be left behind

    by on March 6, 2009

    I started thinking about this list after I wrote a blog post but what really got my juices going are the replies I received after sending out an email invitation to Michael Marlatt's upcoming webinar.
     
    The responses were all over the place, from dramatically enthusiastic to insanely missinformed! What really amazed me though were the misconceptions and doubt that surfaced are out there about mobile recruiting. I had one particular gentleman reply to state "Oh this would never work in IT" and another lady commented that "response rates to mobile direct marketing are declining."
     
    First of all, let me ...

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  • How to brand your HR and Recruiting department internally in your organization

    by on Feb. 20, 2009

    brandingThis week we held a free webinar for HR and Staffing leaders to give them a few ideas on how to create, improve or promote their department's brand inside their organization.

     

    Why is branding important to HR internally?

     

    Because with all the restructuring and downsizing HR departments are facing, it is very important to increase your organizational visibility in order to grow your influence and help you stay in business.

     

    To do that, your HR and Recruiting department should not only be well perceived throughout the entire organization, but also have the respect of senior management and not be ...

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  • LinkedIn now limits you to 30,000 direct connections

    by on Feb. 11, 2009

    Last week I reached 30,000 connections and found out that LinkedIn users are now limited to having no more than 30,000 first degree connections. I found this out because now when I try to accept an invitation I am told by the system that I cannot because I have exceeded the limit, and so I would have to remove connections in order to add them.

    So for those of you that are approaching or would like to approach a network of that size, you may want to be far more careful in accepting invites from now on because ...

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  • LinkedIn Corporate Recruiter Upgrades to Talent Advantage - now with Custom Company Profiles

    by on Feb. 2, 2009

    It's not just a new name:  LinkedIn Talent Advantage offers some cool new functionality that should be of particular interest to companies seeking to use LinkedIn for sourcing and employer branding.  FYI, Talent Advantage includes: LinkedIn Recruiter (candidate search across the entire LinkedIn network, multi-recruiter team collaboration/project management, and related communication tools), Jobs Network (targeted job posting and viral distribution), Talent Direct (highly targeted InMail campaigns), Custom Company Profiles and Employer Advertising (targeted online text and display ads).

    LinkedIn gave JobMachine a sneak peak last week at what was released today, but I'll focus on a couple ...

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  • Shally's Rant about so-called "Cloud Computing"

    by on Dec. 4, 2008
    I've been getting lots of calls from vendors who want me to review their product, help them promote it, resell it, link to it from my website, blog about it, etc. In other words, they are trying to convince me that their particular brand of snake oil is the best and will cure all my client's recruitment ills.

    But here's the thing, more and more of them are talking about "cloud computing" as if they know what it is. My problem is that most of them are just throwing around the term "cloud computing" cluelessly, like folks ...

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  • Two LinkedIn Hacks

    by on Oct. 17, 2008
    In these turbulent times many recruiters are finding it necessary to reduce costs so free sources of leads are becoming more important than ever but the challenge is in learning how to use them all. Subscribers to the JobMachine.net newsletter recently got two LinkedIn tips in their inbox that may save them a bit of money so I thought I should also share them with you here. The first one is Glenn Gutmacher's new and improved LinkedIn hack for Google (BTW for those of you who may not know, Glenn is now a partner in JobMachine and VP ...

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  • Sourcing prospects from local events

    by on June 20, 2008

    Local events are a fantastic source of leads for prospects in fields where there is otherwise little online footprint. For example, in fields such as Accounting, Finance, Nursing, Law and Medical, among others, you may find individuals who occasionally blog or participate in online communities, but such individuals are not as plentiful as in other industry sectors.

     

    Many continuing education companies employ local experts to teach recertification courses. These courses can be found online but frequently behind dynamically generated content which makes it �??deep web�?? content not picked up buy regular search engines. However, the content of those sites can ...

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  • The Sourcer's Daily Dozen by Glenn Gutmacher, King of the Search String

    by on May 29, 2008
    Glenn is the undisputed "king of search string." In the ever changing fast paced world of Internet sourcing there are those who are highly skilled in applying techniques, and with that gain a competitive advantage, but among those there are a rare few with the ability to adapt and create new techniques on the fly. Glenn is chief among them and has been practicing what he preaches for many years, creating and testing new techniques which have become the gold standard of Internet research. He has been right there with me since the very first moment I realized there were ...

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  • Arbita and JobMachine Join Forces

    by on May 22, 2008

    ERE scooped the story before we had time to send out the press release! Big news, my gentle readers, JobMachine and Arbita are merging.

     

    Late in the end of the 20th century I arrived at the conclusion that sourcing was more than merely a way for me to meet my recruitment goals by finding talent unavailable in mainstream sources, it was to be my chosen career.

     

    When I started at this Sourcing hardly existed as a function, much less a dedicated role. Back them many though it was impossible to build a successful career entirely upon sourcing. I recognized early ...

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  • Shally's tips on how to not let your email inbox bring you down

    by on April 6, 2008

    You inbox can get out of control, particularly when you are traveling to conferences and away from your office for a few days. Since I just got back from the Spring ERE and am now headed out to the Australasian Talent Conference I thought some of my fellow travelers would find this blog post timely.
     
    With a daily average fluctuating between 500 and 700 new messages in my Outlook, Auto responders, Junk Mail and Filtering are simply survival tools for me, specially after long trips when I'm officially working but away from my computer during large parts of the ...

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  • Competitive Intelligence now on LinkedIn for 160,000+ companies!

    by on March 21, 2008

    I'm very excited about LinkedIn's new release from last night. 

    When you do a search and see someone's employer in their profile, you can now click on some of those companies and see a summary page of competitive intelligence! 

    Over  160,000 profiles of companies will show this feature and any user can see them. The company profile contains a succinct overview of a company's industry data in combination with LinkedIn data, and it pulls information from Capital IQ. 

    What do you see here?

    •  A list of all that company's employees to which you are ...

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  • Do you like LinkedIn's new face lift? Shally likes the new pervasive search feature!

    by on Feb. 28, 2008
    If you haven't logged into LinkedIn lately you will be surprised when you do because they have now activated their new interface which had been in beta testing.
     
    I find it easier to navigate LinkedIn now, with less clicks to get to what I want. In fact, you can now add a people search module right to your LinkedIn Home Page that shows you any new profiles matching your criteria! This is effectively a "pervasive" search meaning that it acts as an agent and will show you any new results matching your criteria. You can search by Company and ...

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  • Do you like LinkedIn's new face lift? Shally likes the new pervasive search feature!

    by on Feb. 28, 2008
    If you haven't logged into LinkedIn lately you will be surprised when you do because they have now activated their new interface which had been in beta testing.
     
    I find it easier to navigate LinkedIn now, with less clicks to get to what I want. In fact, you can now add a people search module right to your LinkedIn Home Page that shows you any new profiles matching your criteria! This is effectively a "pervasive" search meaning that it acts as an agent and will show you any new results matching your criteria. You can search by Company and ...

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  • Randy Bailey is a LinkedIn Group Maniac!

    by on Jan. 29, 2008
    You could learn from this fellow Open Networker!
     
    Amassing more LinkedIn Groups on his profile than any other recruiter alive, Randy has assembled what has to be the most impressive LinkedIn Groups collection I have ever seen.
     
    He started with a few tips he picked up from my LinkedIn webinar where I teach some hacks on how you can find groups to join, but it seems Randy took my advice very seriously and in fact has taken it to a whole new level. It appears he has pretty much mastered the art of joining groups. In addition to my hacks ...

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  • Sourcing at Lightspeed with Shally's Super Sourcing Shortcuts for Broadlook Diver

    by on Jan. 25, 2008

    On February 8th at 1pm US EST I will be presenting an exclusive 90-minute "how-to" webinar on utilizing the most advanced search strings I have ever created. NOTE: You don't need Diver to take advantage of this webinar,  and... I don't get any commission for copies sold, but after this session you are going to wonder how you can get by without using this amazing sourcing automation tool.

    This is NOT a software demo! This is a very advanced search engine sourcing class for serious researchers who want to automate the time-consuming, repetitive, and tedious task of downloading ...

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