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posted by on Nov. 16, 2007
Today, I am honoring the work of the King of String Glenn Gutmacher. I've attended a number of his presentations (and co-presented with him in Boston) and have always come away humbled by the intricacy and depth of his search strings.
 
Why should you care? Well, if you take a moment to sit at the feet of Glenn (which you do by visiting his blog or taking his course )you will find candidates you would not have been able to find otherwise. And then you, too, can assume your rightful place in the Court of String.
 
I head a retained search and human capital intelligence firm The Good Search that specializes in research that's pretty hard core. So, I am not easily impressed. In a former life, I was an investigative journalist. Moreover, I was surfing the Internet before there were browsers. 
 
But Glenn and his Strings are worth studying and bookmarking. Better, fire up Broadlook Diver and pop in Glenn-esque bookmarks and really go to town. Oh, and for the record, this works not just for staffing level recruitment. We recruit at the highest levels and, my friends, the majority of VPs that one might recruit are not listed in the most obvious places online. You need to venture into the land of the King of String and he will lead you to them . . .
 
Enjoy!
 
Krista Bradford
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  • 1 point 2 years ago

    Thank you for the pointers to the bookmarklets . . .great links. T

    hose that want to get to top talent faster/better should definitely check them out.

    Cheers, KB

  • 1 point 2 years ago

    Krista, you are too kind (and before anyone asks -- this post was uncompensated, unsolicited and completely her idea; I didn't even know about it until it was posted). My feeling is there are way too many consultants with 50,000-foot views and not enough meat in what they provide. In contrast, it has always been my goal to share useful, actionable, hands-on information at the tactical level, to help raise the overall sourcing skills bar in the recruiting industry. It's gratifying when talented people like you recognize that.

    Nevertheless, I think you may wish to make it more obvious how to find my King Strings. You do link in your blogroll to me (http://recruiting-online.spaces.live.com) -- again, thanks -- and once there, if people click the E-Sourcing category link at the left (http://recruiting-online.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=cat%3dE-Sourcing), many of those posts are string-focused.

    I would also encourage folks to check out my free sample bookmarklets, recent powerpoint presentations, etc., at http://www.recruiting-online.com/bookmarklets.html and follow the links there to other useful free content!