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Terminology Question: #Sourcing

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Google+ Company Pages - How Will They Affect Recruiting?

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X-Raying #LinkedIn for Years of Experience

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Do you Have a LinkedIn Recruiter account?

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How to Find the Hidden Person’s Name

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People Search Engines and Productivity Tools

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Top 5 Principles to Boost Your Sourcing Productivity

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#Recruiters, #sourcers: bit.ly/tfrdj0 in 5 min.Topics: Basic search operators charts, Rapportive trick, CSEs, G+ and TheSocialCV

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As a Recruiter or Headhunter, how successful have you found LinkedIn: 1) to source talent for a placement - what strategy do you find works best for you 2) to check and assess the talent?

This was a question on LinkedIn a few weeks ago; I thought it was interesting; unfortunately it didn't get too many responses. I have pasted my answer below. What would you say?[here's my answer:]LinkedIn is the top resource. It is even more useful when it's part of your sourcing strategy, i.e. is not the only social media source. LinkedIn is the largest professional…See More

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Free Trial of TheSocialCV and a "Small Sourcing Challenge"

We have a fantastic opportunity coming up, a one week long trial of TheSocialCV for all of our members, starting on 1/31/2012. It is being offered in association with the event TheSocialCV.com - Sourcing Challenge. I am excited about the trial as well as (of course!) about having a fun sourcing challenge.WHAT IS THESOCIALCV?…See More

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Contest, LinkedIn Profile Search, MDs in Atlanta, and a LinkedIn Webinar

Here is a custom search engine that looks for LinkedIn profiles. Enter a name or a keywords and see the results:LinkedIn ProfilesNow, let’s search, for example, forphysician cardiology diagnostics MD "Greater Atlanta Area"Let’s exclude the word “recruiter” from the above search:physician cardiology diagnostics MD "Greater Atlanta Area"…See More

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Irina Shamaeva commented on Recruiting Animal's blog post 'Desperate 4 Guests'

@animal I could do a guest blog post for you if you like.

Jan 24

This is quite interesting how false rumors are spread Check it out, feel free to comment, and please share: http://ning.it/zbY3xz

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Irina Shamaeva replied to Nick Leigh-Morgan's discussion 'I'm trying to compile a list of free recruiting stuff. Any suggestions?'

Here's my list, also available for download as the attached PDF file. Beginner-Intermediate Storage and sharing Dropbox Browser Add-Ons (Chrome and FireFox) Fastest Chrome Fastest Fox Clickable Links Parsing, Filtering, and Sorting Outwit…

Jan 21

Looking Up Anybody's Name on LinkedIn While Browsing - a Simple 2-Step Set-up

Yesterday morning I got an email from one of my webinar attendees who is a Sales and Marketing Manager. “I search LinkedIn a lot for lead generation confirmation.”, he writes, ”I would like to select a name and search directly in LinkedIn only. Can you help direct me on the set up?”Here is how to set this up.Download Chrome if you don’t have it. Chrome is a great, fast browser.1. Copy this: …See More

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Bob Sharpe commented on Irina Shamaeva's blog post 'Internet Recruiting 101'

Thank you for clarifying, Irina. I appreciate it.

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Irina Shamaeva commented on Irina Shamaeva's blog post 'Internet Recruiting 101'

I haven't been on the Mac for many years now and miss it...(I used to be a Mac C++ software engineer.) Multiple browsers may be used for different add-ons available. (Firefox is the richest browser in terms of add-ons, but at some point it…

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Bob Sharpe commented on Irina Shamaeva's blog post 'Internet Recruiting 101'

Irina: Thank you for this post. As usual, it's informative and helpful. Just one question....what is the benefit of having multiple browsers? I'm in the Mac world and have no issues whatsoever using Safari. I hear the…

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Internet Recruiting 101

I have met many experienced and accomplished recruiters who have been thrown into the rapidly expanding online world without anyone providing adequate basic training or ways to keep up with the most important news.In this brief post I don’t aim to bring everyone up to speed. Bit I’d like to cover a list of the very basics that you may want to check for yourself. If you are way beyond this, and are open to learning more, please check out the …See More

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Name: Irina Shamaeva

Job Title: Partner, Chief Sourcer

Company: Brain Gain Recruiting; "Boolean Strings" Network

Which best describes your profession?: Agency

How many years have you been in the business?: 5 - 9 years

Which industries do you work in now?: All Industries, Financial, Technology, Other

How many employees in your company?: <10

College/University: MGU

Are you interested in split placements?: Yes

Which conferences do you plan to attend in the next year?: ERE, SHRM, SourceCon

What kind of networking are you open to?: Open networking, Referrals between friends

How do you introduce yourself to people you meet in business?: Irina Shamaeva

Name someone you most admire: My Dad

What recruiting tools can you not live without?: eGrabber [http://tinyurl.com/ResumeGrabber
http://tinyurl.com/ResumeFinder]
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What do you like best about RecruitingBlogs.com...: Being able to connect with interesting people

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As a Recruiter or Headhunter, how successful have you found LinkedIn: 1) to source talent for a placement - what strategy do you find works best for you 2) to check and assess the talent?

Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

This was a question on LinkedIn a few weeks ago; I thought it was interesting; unfortunately it didn't get too many responses. I have pasted my answer below. What would you say?

[here's my answer:]

LinkedIn is the top resource. It is even more useful when it's part of your sourcing strategy, i.e. is not the only social media source. …

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Looking Up Anybody's Name on LinkedIn While Browsing - a Simple 2-Step Set-up

Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:49pm 0 Comments 1 Like

Here is how to set this up.

Download Chrome if you don’t have it. Chrome is a great, fast…

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Internet Recruiting 101

Posted on January 13, 2012 at 3:41pm 4 Comments 2 Likes

I have met many experienced and accomplished recruiters who have been thrown into the rapidly expanding online world without anyone providing adequate basic training or ways to keep up with the most important news.

In this brief post I don’t aim to bring everyone up to speed. Bit I’d like to cover a list of the very basics that you may want to check for yourself. If you are way beyond this, and are open to learning more, please check out…

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Why You Must Start Using Google-Plus for Sourcing and Recruiting

Posted on December 13, 2011 at 12:38pm 9 Comments 1 Like

If you are waiting to start using Google-Plus for sourcing and recruiting, you will soon find yourself falling behind your competition. Google-plus is still smaller than major social networks but its size doesn’t matter that much. It is also a moving target in terms of its functionality, but that makes it even more interesting!

Here are just a few tips.

Identifying/Cross-Referencing Prospects. If you know someone’s…

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How to Find Contact Information - Dec 6th (Tue) at 1 PM EST

Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:07pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

How to Find Contact Information

Join us for a Webinar on December 6

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It happens to many of us that we locate a person who seems like a fantastic potential candidate or a business lead – however we either don’t have the contact info or it turns out to be obsolete or wrong.

In this webinar we’ll…

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At 4:37pm on September 7, 2010, Kevin Vaughn said…: Hi, my name is Kevin and I am the operations manager for a healthcare recruiting firm in Los Angeles, CA. I’m reaching out to you because you indicated on your profile that you were in healthcare staffing and possibly open to doing some splits. We have a lot of open job orders and offer a 50/50 fee split. Would you be open to discussing ways we could collaborate from time to time?

At 12:44pm on May 21, 2010, Jay Perreault {DCTechRecruiter} said…: Irena,

Thanks for Joining the DCTech group. Please feel free to post your current openings. Also let me know if you are having challenges identifying talent. I will check around for referrals for you if you ask.

Regards,

Jay

At 2:32pm on April 17, 2009, mwilson said…: Hi every one I am new to this networking site.I want all your help.
looking forward..
Thanks in advance
Max wilson
Internal Recruiting Specialist
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"Celebrating 25 Years of Customer Commitment"
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