Twitter is social network/web-based SMS service that connects you with everyone you know and lets them know what you’re doing at any given moment. It’s really more of a way to broadcast messages without them being important enough to warrant an email. For example, I can go to Twitter or text from my cell phone and update my status to: “I’m at the movies right now seeing Batman” or “I’m eating pizza”. Or if you’re more of the recruiting mindset: “I’m looking for Perl Application Engineers with strong software virtualization experience”.

Now how can one use this in the realm of sourcing? There’s not a lot of information here that you would normally find like on a Linkedin page. But a minimum amount of information is there like a short bio, location, and even work. Here’s an example of how this can be used:

You search a phrase like “work company”, where “company” would be the name of the company you are trying to target. You can also add a location like state. For instance you can enter in “CA” for california.

If you find someone that you would like to contact you can either follow their status messages or “tweets”, or you can send them a SMS text to their cell phone. You can be the judge if this is something you are comfortable with.

- Mark

We come to work expecting to solve problems or follow up with a candidate hoping he/she excepts and even expect to tackle down a few challenges. What happens when things don’t go your way? Most people handle their frustration within themselves and some employees even take a quick walk with a co-worker so they can express what they are feeling. In some rare cases there are employees that snap and cannot control their anger. So ask yourself, am I really having a bad day? With this said you are having a normal day until you react in the following way…

This is the true definition of having a bad day at the office.

- Ismael

When searching for member profiles or bios, you have to change your search strings from resume searches. If you want to target a specific group, such as members of Hispanic financial associations, you can start off in Google like this:

association financial professional hispanic

Now you want to add in the terms that will get you bios or profiles of the people who belong to associations like this. Adding bio or profile is a good start, but you also want to add words that refer to the individual in the 3rd person. Like so:

(bio OR profile) (he OR she OR his OR her) association financial professionals hispanic

Now the results are better except for the fact that you are getting job postings. You can remove them by subtracting job or jobs from the title of a web page:

(bio OR profile) (he OR she OR his OR her) association financial professionals hispanic -intitle:job -intitle:jobs

If we’d like to target a specific position like a CFO, then we can add that as well.

(bio OR profile) (he OR she OR his OR her) association financial professionals hispanic -intitle:job -intitle:jobs CFO

Now you have a large number of targeted candidates. Remember that they are going to be profiles, not resumes. There will be enough information to get a hold of these potential passive candidates.

- Mark

Today we venture into the new world of Video Blogging!

Cheers!
- Mark

Hello my fellow staffing professionals!! This is the beginning of our new Duran HCP Blog.