RSS for Recruiting / Sourcing - Part 1
Before getting in to the sourcing and recruiting from RSS; I want to cover the basics of RSS. Many recruiters I speak to haven't even heard of the term RSS. They are amazed that you can not only effectively gather competitive intelligence but even source candidates.
Every blog publishes a feed, which is basically the content of that blog. Everytime you publish a new blog post, your blog will generate a feed automatically. This is the feed that your readers subscribe .
Your feed URL would typically be your-domain.com/feed Ex http://researchersecrets.com/rss2.aspx.The feed URL isn’t very important because feedreaders automatically pulls them whenever you subscribe to a blog.
What are feedreaders?
Feedreaders or aggregators pull feeds from all your subscribed blogs so that you do not have to visit each and every one of them to check for new blog posts. For example you if you come across one of my blog post and like get an update everytime I post again and hate the idea of visiting the site everyday checking if there's a new post? All you need is a feedreader
The following are the popular ones-
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There are plenty of feedreaders available, like Google Reader, Yahoo , Bloglines, NetVibes, FeedLounge, Newsgator. I like Netvibes and Google Reader.
How do I read?
1) The easiest way is to click the RSS button
2) In Google Reader, one your left sidebar, click on Add subscription and a small box will pop up, and type the blog URL into the box.
3) Subscribe using your browser.
How do I read my feeds?
Simple - Go to your feed reader and it will tell you which blogs are updated with new posts OR if you have Explorer 7 you just click your Feeds
Or if you are like me using chrome (which still doesn't have RSS)- go to web page there are two http://www.feeds.ramisp.org, bookmarklets available: "View RSS Feed" and Auto-Detect RSS." Drag each of these bookmarklets to Chrome's bookmark bar.
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Good stuff, Rithesh - keep it up!
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Nice post, Rithesh. It would seem that we're working down a somewhat similar path in terms of using RSS for sourcing - while your post concentrates on pulling rss feeds from sites I've been leaning much more towards really sourcing candidates.
Check out this post (http://budurl.com/rsssourcing) for some additional information on using readers and rss feeds as cloud based ATS. It's high level but gets the idea across, I think.
I'd love to hear more about what you've found and sharing with one another where it makes sense. Looking forward to keeping up with your blog, sir.
Chris Hoyt
RecruiterGuy
www.RecruiterGuy.net
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Chris,
This post was just about on how to use RSS... the part 2 similar among your lines but google reader is so 2008... lol . I like newsgator check it out
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Thanks, Rithesh. Based on your title and blog's content it was obvious what direction you were heading.
I'm looking forward to reading more and in your helping me to move out of my "2007" mindset.
Chris Hoyt
RecruiterGuy
www.RecruiterGuy.net
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useful info
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