Recruiting and Sourcing Secrets

kurrently -search engine for Facebook and Twitter.

2010-11-20T12:21:00Z

kurrently -A real- time search engine for FaceBook and Twitter - Need I say more?

Input the key word and Voila! You can RSS it or restrcit to facebook or twitter searches + search engines sites.

Interestingly it understands the (AND / NOT) (+ , - ) booleans as well.

Happy hunting!

BranchOut - Interesting

2010-11-19T23:57:00Z

BranchOut says that 80% of new jobs come through direct networking. Really? I doubt that but still BranchOut seems like a great tool to fish out details from your facebook account. It spiders out the career /company info from your connected friends and their friends allowing you to introduce or network with them.

A great facebook application for Job seekers and Recruiters. Its very simple to use after logging in.

If successful, this might be the biggest competetion for LinkedIn but for now people might be skeptical with the lack of privacy issues in Facebook. BrachOut should try capture the Gen Y or the professionals coming out from school. Most of them would have a facebook account but NO professional relationship. This could be great combination.

A lot of recruiters are going to sign up soon with the free job posting as most of them are still figuring out how to tap the millions of profiles in facebook. It will let you link your entire job posting (Imagine all your 100+ jobs on Facebook).
Another similar Facebook application is Work For Us installing an App to spider/pull the info. One another which seems to be on work is Pursuit but I couldn't sign up...(sign up's Limited)

For now BranchOut is for keeps

Linkedin -Updates for companies you're following

2010-05-10T11:18:00Z

Enough of my laziness .. so back to committing on my blog.

LinkedIn recently launched a great features which will help you in tracking companies you like or your competition or someone you could be hiring from.. It gives you an update on "RECENT DEPARTURES" - Employees that recently left the companies (don't imagine that LinkedIn will magically update if someone doesn't edit their profile) ; NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES- (great if you are job seeker) ; PROMOTIONS & CHANGES & NEW HIRES are the other two updates which you can get via email like this :-

How to set it up? Go to your LinkedIn account - Do a simple search on the name of the company you like and on the right top corner you will have "Follow company NEW" - very simple

Recruiting In India

2009-09-11T15:14:00Z

From the last 6 months I had been working on a project for my firm looking for experienced candidates interested in going or working for KPMG India ( BTW I am still looking for people with experience in Audit, Advisory and Tax)Its been a great experience especially telling most candidates in India that I have no interst in their photograph or personal details in the resume.

I used many different methods for finding people from Twitter, Linkedin to Orkut (instead of Facebook for India)

On a recent short trip to India to "Gods Own Country" ; I still have my folks over there and not because NPR has putting a lot of ads on "Incredible India"(Good website though). So while flipping the giant phone Directory and looking at various Ads by banks. I was really surprised to see many banks mentioning the names and titles of most working in that location. Better customer support I suppose.. I don't know but they had mentioned all senior manager and above from Finance, IT ,Audit , HR dept.

I thought of giving them call... just for the heck of it. I called two of them and both were interested in talking further and got there cell numbers.

India recruiters are you listening? Do you go through phone directory in your local area to call?

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Its not me, Its always You

2009-09-10T11:01:00Z

I know I got many emails asking me if I have stopped blogging. Its a lame excuse but I say "I have been busy".. not lazy. (Wink)

Continuing with Excuses; one of the hardest part I feel during the whole interview process is to tell the candidate that he wasn't selected or that he was not a fit or may be even you suck big time. As a recruiter you can't say more than few scripted words like ok it was great meeting you and you were good but just not the match we were looking for.. kinda like that. You often don't here feedbacks like you were biting your nails or txting during interview or you were trashing your previous employer. You have to imagine that there are a lot of legal restrictions to follow in everything from posting the jobs to selection.

You have candidates who blame the recruiter for not clearing the interview. I feel as they don't have access to the hiring manager so they got to be "mad at someone"-Its better to spare their family if they can take out the frustration when you crush their ego.

Then you have candidates who thinks they were the best and no clue why they weren't selected. It could as simple as a firm handshake or the bad breadth.Its hard to give a honest feedback for that.

Over the years I have learned one thing - Don't argue with any candidate when giving the bad news. To be a good salesman you have to be a good listener too. Mention about helping them, reach out to your network.

Most of the times it frustrates me giving the bad news especially as you are the one to find the candidate, build a relation.

Gary Will lists a archive of shocking questions & horrible experience from actual interviews.

Its easy to say to "excuse the recruiter" as the broker. Its the Hiring manager who wants to fill a position and its you who want the job.. where do the recruiter come in?

They come everywhere during the hiring process. From Finding your behaviour sitting at the reception, getting you friendly and in finding how much you care about the job.

It does helps working with the recruiter even though he/she still won't be able to exactly tell you why you didn't get the job.

P.S:- I downloaded a new applicationon Iphone / Blackberry- Contact Capture by Broadlook. Its a great tool for capturing contact informations from lists ,documents and emails. I personally deleted tha app as I don't use iphone to extract mass contact data.

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Oddskills - JobBoard

2009-06-24T12:31:00Z

With a name like Oddskills.com I thought you might find jobs that no ones want to do or posting like "I like to dig a hole in my yard" but turns out that's just the name as it has all jobs you mostly see in any job board.

Since its launch 2 months back Oddskills.com looks to have grown very well. You can see a lot of new position based on your interest, skills or location. I just signed up. I like the fact that signing up was very easy and posting or searching for any position looks very easy too. I strongly believe those are two most important thing which turns users away from any job board.

Job Seekers.. something for you to look at.

I am not sure how they would be making money as everything is free unless the use the ad space which currently runs Google Ads

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Top 10 IT Certifications - Verify them

2009-06-22T23:33:00Z

I am currently hiring for a Sr. Business Analyst in Montvale, NJ and ran across a
excellent resume but in the resume the candidate mentioned in one of the section that he's a "Certified Project Manager.. Pending". What does that mean? Pending? Most of these exams are online and like the PHR (which I have) and you get the results immediately.
So either you are a PMP or you are not ..simple.

This got me to thinking the other certifications online which are easily verifiable

1) Microsoft - MCP/MCSC & 50 thousands others they have

2) CISCO -Cisco Career Certifications Tracking System
        * The Tracking System does not track CCIE lab results.

3) Oracle Certification Program (OCP /DBA Others)
         Please send an email to ocpexam_ww@oracle.com and place "OCP Credential Validation" in your subject line.. blah blah - Read more at Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

4) PMI (PMP) Certification Verifications

5) Verify other Security Certification Like CISA/CISM/CGEIT

6) CompTIA Certifications (A+,RFID,Network, others)

7) Verify a Red Hat Certificate

8) Sun Certifications

9) QA Certifications

10) Citrix CCEA or CCA Certification

TWO Non IT -

CPA LICENSE VERIFICATION - Cost $45 (Looks Like they are the only One Charging)

And for all those HR and Recruiting professionals out there

HR Certification - GPHR /SPHR/PHR HR Certification - GPHR /SPHR/PHR

Now you dont have excuses; Either your name is in one of this list or you don't have a certification.

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LeadResearcher Pro - Find Emails,Phone numbers FAST

2009-06-19T01:52:00Z

Recently I heard about a new software beta release of LeadResearcher by Egrabber. I have used many of their excellent products like ResumeGrabber and Resumefinder and this seems to another feather in the cap.

Why do you need it?

If you are a recruiter looking at email patterns for a specific company or looking to find all the possible email addresses of employees working in a given company.
For example you search on Linkedin to find a great profile in a company with no contact info. Now you can use this tool to get the contact information.

It works in 3 different ways

1) Type in a name and company. It digs the net and bring out corresponding domain based email contacts
2) If you are interested in more info you can find more details like phone number, company news or web details
and 3) or if you have someone's emails id; it does a Reverse emails look up searching for again phone number details or company info/domain info

They have a good 2 min demo you can watch at LeadResearcher.

To try it out I downloaded a 3 day trial version of LeadResearcher and here's how it worked for me.

Final Verdict: -Another Great Product but wish it was cheaper to afford in this economy.

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Find a Job on Twitter

2009-05-20T12:06:00Z

Find a Job on Twitter

Its tougher than it sounds but not that hard. The most important aspect is networking but what are

the other things you can do?Lets assume you have a twitter account and you have been doing some

tweets.

1) The first thing you need to do is creating a self brand.You have created a clean image with link to

you resume online or you might use http://twtjobs.com/ to create your twitter resume

2) Start following things of your interest. Yes following sanfranescorts is fun but keep that for your

private ID. Follow Industry experts , people you already know.

3) Start Networking with Recruiters. Follow them all.. starting with me ..

@ http://twitter.com/rithesh or the easiest way to look for recruiters is using the site command in

Google You can follow more than 10 thousand accounts related to jobs or recruiters.

For Ex:-

I use this site:twitter.com +bio (recruiter OR sourcer OR headhunter)

command in Google to to get http://tinyurl.com/onyd9z

4) Now you have searched for individual recruiters search for Corporate Twitter accounts Like

@KPMGUSCareers - KPMG US Open Job Positions

@KPMG - KPMG Careers

@EMCCareers - EMC Job Postings

@WBCareers - Warner Brothers Career Opportunities

@DeloitteTalent - Deloitte Job Postings

@TheRecruiterGuy - AT&T

@AppleRecruiter

@HewittCareer and so many others

Corporate Twitter Accounts includes

- Best Buy

- Cisco Systems

- Toys ‘R’ Us

- Dell

- Johnson & Johnson

- Wells Fargo

- Microsoft

- Time Warner

- FedEx

- New York Life Insurance

- McDonald’s

- Oracle

- Google

- Avnet

- Amazon.com

- CBS

- Texas Instruments

- Monsanto

- Whole Foods Market

- Rubbermaid

- Symantec

And so many others. Follow them interact with them

5) A lot of twitter related job sites are popping up every day like

http://jobshouts.com/

http://www.twithire.com/

http://www.twitterjobsearch.com

http://twitterjobcast.com/

http://tweetmyjobs.com get notification of new jobs on your cell phone

Or use twitag.com/tag/job to search for jobs ,conference, experts, webinars etc using "hash tag" #tag

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Strategy for hiring The Disabled

2009-04-01T12:08:00Z

Strategy for hiring The Disabled

Given a chance would you hire Albert Einstein as your scientist or maybe consider FDR, Beethoven, or Thomas Edison? These and are several of the famous people who had some form of disability

ADA-Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990- is a civil rights law which prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act. Disability is defined as "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity."

According to the U.S. Census, people with disabilities comprise the largest minority group, approximately 20 percent of the population

Everyone agrees that the Economy is bad, so it stands to question, why is the unemployment rate (15 percent ) among disabled workers almost double that of the non disabled population? Especially considering that disabled workers have one of the highest retention rates of 85 percent.

DiversityInc recently published a list of the Top Companies for people with Disabilities. The list may not be perfect; The companies are doing all they could (I am sure they are trying) and it’s especially hard committing to programs during these hard economic time which is why it’s more important not to lose focus.

Disability inclusion is not about being compliant or avoiding a law suit. It is about maintaining a competitive advantage. It’s about becoming the employer of choice. It’s about sending the right message to your employees and your customers. It’s about enhancing your organization to access untapped talent.

Many believe that there's a shortage of talent and with a large workforce pending to retire in coming years. The Gen Y are coming to the market. They are well versed with ADA. They will not tolerate discrimination and would expect the same of level of understanding they got in their schools, community and college.

It’s very important to know that there are different types of disabilities. Physical Disabilities like Cerebral Palsy or Cystic fibrosis, Acquired Disabilities like AIDS or Multiple Sclerosis and Developmental Disabilities like Dyslexia, ADD or Learning Disability which are very common.

According to the United States Social Security office almost 1 in 4 of today’s 20 year-olds will become disabled before reaching age 67.

Hiring disabled employees may qualify your business for additional tax benefits such as: deduction for costs of removing barriers to the disabled and elderly; disabled access credit and work opportunity tax credit financial programs.

IT’S ABOUT ABILITY.

The statistics and numerous surveys demonstrate that Disabled workers have one of the highest retention rates and the lowest turnover therefore ultimately costing companies less to provide a reasonable accommodation.

Companies also gain in - Increased employee productivity and organizational performance through a more diversified employee base; Tax benefits; Lower economic costs because of lower absenteeism; decreased employee turnover, and better-than-average safety records

So what should be your strategy for hiring Disabled workers?

(1) Establish Affinity Groups - resources to raise and share voice which will change the misinformation and attitudes of your staff. Educate everyone.

(2) Plan - look at your current diversity plan. Does it focus on specific programs for tapping or reaching out to disabled?

(3) It has to be a Top down approach. Not only the leadership and management should be actively involved in the efforts but should make it mandatory

(4) Involve people who are disabled. The best ideas would come from them. For example while creating a new software design or product design which might appeal to someone who is blind (voice recognition) or deaf or hard of hearing.

(5) Have an effective PR campaign in creating awareness. It should be an issue of the entire organization. It’s just not about legality. Is your career page friendly for disable.. Does it show only people who are multi race or is there a picture of a disabled person. (How about someone in a wheelchair?).

(6) Get your mentorship or internship process involved for disability.

(7) Select and external/national/local disability partner to implement programs, events, workshop etc.

(8) Portray your company as one that values the contribution of individuals with disabilities. Disability inclusion should be in your Organization's Value Proposition

(9) Budgeting for the inclusion of people with disabilities should be a part of the overall budget. It should be a centralized resource. Everyone knows the cost of hiring a Foreign worker (H1 B costs $3000 Plus Green Card another $5000). The Average Cost for Employers to Accommodate Persons with Disabilities is less than $500 for more than 60% of People with Disabilities

(10) Create networks (social /professional) internally and externally just for disability candidate pipelines. Do Targeted recruiting

Employers who hire people with disabilities create a positive corporate image. Hiring people with disabilities is not charity. But bringing them into the organization is an exemplary act that models corporate responsibility. It’s about ABILITY and its time you start doing something about it.

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