I don’t how many of you have heard of a search engine called exalead. It has been around since 2004, but I think it has some cool features and it works so well for resume searches that I thought it was worth mentioning for those of you who may not have heard of it.
Some of […]

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Candidate sourcing is the single greatest opportunity to impact the total cost, quality, and performance of recruiting. Sourcers have tremendous challenges facing them but somewhere tucked away in these challenges we have the potential for a solid sourcing plan.
Sourcers face many obstacles that recruiters don’t have to deal with. For instance regardless of how strong […]

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by Pete Johnson, Nerd Guru
This article is courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching entry level jobs and other career opportunities.
Wired magazine recently had story about DARPA’s string of human enhancement projects that contained the epitome of […]

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Since earlier I shared with you the “feature” command I wanted to open it up to another cool way to search for people. Remember this is a command used particularly in yahoo. A cool way to combine the feature command is with the word homepage. When combined this way it finds personal pages excluding commercial […]

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Recently Jim Stroud did an interesting study on document searches and which were the most common resume file types on the net; so I won’t go into a deep study on how to do document searches but as a brief summary. File extensions are extremely important, especially within the internet. File extensions instruct browsers, and […]

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In recruitingblogs.com there was an interesting question raised, Slouch is offering a subscription to the Fordyce Letter to the one who answers his post with the best recruiting lesson ever learned… If you haven’t yet you should go add your two cents worth. You never know it might be yours!!
Anyway, as I wrote my answer, […]

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Most smart recruiters have a hidden weakness and that is that we’re absolute suckers for anything that sounds clever. That is why there is so many of us paying so much money to learn about different internet search techniques like x-rays, flips and others that frankly have been around for many years. Even though they […]

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Queries are the combination of words and operators that we enter into search box of search engines and directories to show it what our intention from the search is. In order to maximize your search you should use a minimum of six to eight words in your query. They don’t all have to be related […]

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The more I think about this the more it makes sense to me. Everything you need to know about sourcing you can learn by attending a garage sale!! Call it what you will; maybe it is the thrill of the hunt, the thrill of finding hidden treasure, or maybe even the thrill of beating the […]

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If you want to use search engines successfully to find candidates you have to know that all search services interpret your queries differently. The better you understand how search engines translate your query into a search the better you will be able to control the results.
Search engines don’t deduce anything from the keywords you enter. […]

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I was reading an interesting article titled Am I addicted to food?Which said: “According to the Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery, food addiction is simply an obsessive preoccupation with food. It doesn’t mean that a food addict can’t get enough of food – it could be that they are so concerned with food, that they […]

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I found this cool search engine the other day and just thought some of you may not have seen it. It is called allth.at It is a meta-search engine with extra kick. No, I’m not affiliated with them nor do i get anything out of it. I just thought it was cool.
I like its ability […]

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Tonight in talking to some great recruiters over dinner, the conversation drifted to the bad things that happened in interviews and then it hit me. We all have stories to tell about things that candidates said or did in interviews that were unbelievable. Wouldn’t be fun to put together a list of things not to […]

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We all remember when it was easy to find candidates; they just about found us pretty much on their own. There were so many candidates all we had to do was put out some kind of sign and wham!! Candidates seemed to appear out of nowhere.  Things are so much different now. Candidates no longer […]

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I think the recruiting animal is on to something here. I was reading his post titled Networking For Shy People. My imagination took me away to figure out what that would be like; I mean, “networking for shy people”.
This is what I imagined, I pictured a room full of people, a shy person walks in […]

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