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Recruiters need to get soft (skills)

| May 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
Recruiters need to get soft (skills)

Do recruiters under value soft skills? Real live relationships? Has social networking and virtual relationships replaced the real, bare knuckle recruiter? Maybe, but without a doubt to be successful recruiters will need to leverage a blend of both virtual and in person, real live soft skills. Converting prospects is a hard task, especially in an economy like today.

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Sales Recruiting

| December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
Sales Recruiting

Thanks for asking a great question! There are many different techniques to use here, but no one size fits all solution. I took a few moments

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Web 1.0 – Web 2.0.. What is Web 3.0?

| December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
Web 1.0 – Web 2.0.. What is Web 3.0?

Thanks for the question. So here is the deal; we essentially have 3 versions of the web. Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and now Web 3.0 or the semantic web.

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Track down email domains quick and easy

| December 16, 2008 | 0 Comments
Track down email domains quick and easy

Here’s a quick little ditty on finding domain names for emails when you may be having problems finding the extensions. Obviously you are going to run through

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Creative Sourcing Vs. Deep Sourcing

| December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments
Creative Sourcing Vs. Deep Sourcing

This response comes from a question posted the other day regarding the differences between Creative Sourcing and Deep Sourcing.

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Communication – Collaboration – Conversation – Community

| December 8, 2008 | 3 Comments
Communication – Collaboration – Conversation – Community

What do these terms mean to you? To me it represents the data shift that we have seen over the past few years; it represents the need to share information

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Cache my Related Info search commands – Google!

| November 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
Cache my Related Info search commands – Google!

I was speaking the other day to a friend of mine who happens to be a sourcer. We got into a conversation about searching on Google

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Recruiting Videos and Adventures in Search

| November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment
Recruiting Videos and Adventures in Search

Normally I only post videos that are a few minutes in length. This clip is about 53 minutes in length but it’s an outstanding recruiting panel video headed up by John Sumser.  The video itself is about 2 years old, but the information is relevant to today.  Touching on control, budgets, recruiting process and ethics, [...]

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Google Stop Words?

| November 18, 2008 | 0 Comments
Google Stop Words?

Did you know that when you are entering in search terms and phrases with Google, most of your term entered are forgotten?

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“define” search command with Google

| November 16, 2008 | 0 Comments
“define” search command with Google

As you get deep into search and sourcing for candidates, you may find yourself in a bit of a pickle not understanding terms.

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