Recruiter Talk
Recruiting Blitz 4-9-2010
Weekly Recruiting Blitz of information that we found to be extremly great reads. This week we are featuring some great articles on social media, recruitment and some acquisitions that recently took place. Enjoy.
10 must have FireFox Add-on’s for Recruiters
Firefox is my browser of choice. Why? Just because I think it’s really cool. It’s fast and the add-on’s are phenomenal. For a recruiter the day can clip away, here are 10 must have add-on’s that I recommend to help your day to day recruiting game.
Track, manage and import profiles and resumes with ReferYes
With more changes on the horizon, new upgrades to the sourcing tool @referyes makes it a more viable sourcing tool for recruiters looking to track, manage and integrate their sourcing activity. Referyes allows you to cover the open web, social networks, track down email addresses, universities and more.
ReferYes Sourcer: 5 FREE Licenses & a Review: It’s good.
ReferYes provides recruiters and sourcers with innovative candidate sourcing solutions to help them find qualified candidates for their job openings. We gave 5 FREE liceneses to our readers. Take a quick look at our review. It’s a great tool with great potential to be a significant part of your sourcing tools.
Locafollow your Tweeps to a better #Recruitment strategy
Another good tool to check out for recruiting and sourcing profiles via twitter. IT’s not the perfect storm but it does have good potential and provides some great search capabilities.
Connect and Manage your LinkedIn Connections
Take full advantage of your LinkedIn network. Organize, Tag and recruit via company, industry, location title and more. It’s simple and easy to execute. You are missing great talent you are already connected with. Take control of your Network.
Meaningful #Recruiting with Twitter: @Followerwonk
Twitter this, Twitter that. Recruiters are starting to seem desperate on how to measure and use Twitter for recruiting. Let’s keep this simple and skip the theory. It’s about tactics and understanding how to use the tools to connect and then take that connection offline. Followerwonk is one way to try it.
Cuil – Search timelines, keywords and Facebook
The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. <–Is that true?
Whoozy – The People Search Engine
People search engines vary in capabilities and features. Some are certainly better than others but all move to serve the same purpose; to get you the information you are searching for. What makes them different? What makes one engine better than another? Read about Whoozy and our thoughts about it here.
2 Pretty Cool New Features with Twitter
I post today with a little curiosity surrounding Twitter. To be honest the site is horrible. It’s boring, lacks interactive features and is frankly everything (In design) opposite of what is preached as hip and cool today. Regardless, in a sad attempt to be cool, here are 2 new features being released.

