This year has seen several sudden and unforeseen changes, such as the widespread transition to remote work that will undoubtedly be remembered as a significant disruptive event in modern history. Currently, almost everyone is working from home, making it an opportune moment to reach out to potential candidates through cold calling Cold calling can…
Month: April 2020
Creating email drip campaign is an important factor within recruiting. Recruiters have been recognizing its importance copying the concept from the sales industry. The Sales industry have innovated this concept and slowly improved it within the past few years. Recruiters can now fully automate an email sequence when prospecting and engaging a new candidate. There…
I had the opportunity to interview the legendary Katrina Collier from The Searchologist. She describes herself as an author, speaker, and facilitator. I would also add Wizard of Sourcing to the list. She is the author of: The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals. Which comes highly recommended by many recruiting…
The right subject line is the secret to an effective recruiting email, so why do most people spend just mere seconds writing one when they can spend an hour or more creating the email itself? If you’re doing things right, you’ll spend at least as much time considering your subject line as you do your…
Across the globe, many companies have been forced to furlough and layoff employees. At the same time, hiring efforts been moved to the back burner. So, it’s no surprise that recruiters and sources have been dealing with some difficult times, but that doesn’t mean you’re out of luck. With remote recruiting growing in popularity, you…
SalesQL is an extension tool that helps find contact information from LinkedIn users. It helps find phone numbers and email addresses for your 1st, 2nd and 3rd+ LinkedIn connections. Easily download your LinkedIn connections and extract their contact details in bulk, direct from LinkedIn search pages – great for building prospect databases and networking lists….
Being able to search for someone’s LinkedIn profile using an email address is very important hack as a Sourcer. There used to be several ways for a Recruiter to cross reference someone’s email using Rapportive, Sales Navigator, and most recently the URL manipulation hack using sales navigator. Unfortunately, all of these methods no longer work. …
Do you need a creative outlet to find diverse candidates online? Pinterest is community of creative individuals that happen to be female and diverse. Below I will show you how to recruit and source them on Pinterest. There is no doubt that social media is filled with talented people roaming around and Pinterest is…
I had the opportunity to interview the legendary Vanessa Raath. I had the chance to see her speak at SourceCon in 2019 and I was very impressed by her sourcing presentation. She has over 13 years of recruitment experience, 10 years focusing on the South African Technical IT market, she then decided to launch…
The economic impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic are uncertain, but some experts predict that unemployment in the U.S. could reach 15% and the economy could shrink by over 30% in the next quarter, resulting in up to 47 million job losses. As seen during The Great Recession, a contracting economy and high levels of displacement…
The growing number of social media platforms has surely created a number of opportunities for recruiters. Of course, many are getting left behind because they’re simply unsure of how to approach these brand new tools. If you feel the same way, this advice will help you out. While not all tools are created equal,…
Many Recruiters will be experiencing a slow down and uncertainty due to the Coronavirus. I wanted to put together a list of recruiting tools that are free to use. Recruiters will be expected to trim their budgets within the next several months. Recruiters won’t have the extra money to spend on the latest tool. They…
I had the opportunity to interview the legendary Aaron Lintz. He’s currently Senior Sourcing Specialist at Thoughtworks based in Florida. He’s been in the industry for many years and has presented at many recruiting conferences across the globe. Overall, I’m grateful and honored that he was open to getting interviewed for my blog. Tell…
There are plenty of browser extensions that can help you as a recruiter, but perhaps none more valuable than a good time tracker. After all, an accurate time tracker is a must for having accurate time sheet data, and they can even help analyze how time is being spent. Here’s a look at the best…
Recruiters can use a number of strategies to get the information they need out of interviewees, but competency based questions are among the most beneficial because they ask interviewees to get specific about how they have demonstrated specific skills in past scenarios. These questions are an excellent way to have a candidate explain their abilities…