Here is how to win the Worlds Greatest Sourcer Challenge #WGS15

Tune in on 3/19!

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Recruiting Trends 2015 Bratcher-Get off Google and Bing

I have the honor of speaking at the 2015 Recruiting Trends Conference in Orlando, Fl on November 8-10th. I will be presenting on using alternative search engines besides the Goggle and The Bing. Here is a sneak peek:

Using a search engine does NOT mean you are searching the Internet!

Search engines don’t give you access to all pages on the web, only the ones it has found and indexed.

Each search engine searches the web and catalogs pages in different ways.

Because of hierarchy individual indexing methods one search engine will have a set of results different than the other.

It’s good to have a favorite search engine, one you are most comfortable using, but don’t get complacent and place all your bets on one single search engine. Get to know at least three of them very well.

No single search engine has yet been able to search the entire Internet. Chances are that with the Internet growing faster than search engines can keep up, this may never happen. As a result, it’s wise to use at least three of the major search engines for any given search. Because the type of information you seek as a recruiter is contained in hard to find pages, it’s possible that what you seek is listed in one search engine but not another. If you stop at just one or two search engines you are probably going to miss many useful leads.

You are Human, Use Tools!

·         Read the instructions, learn the uniqueness and specialized commands of that tool

·         When you evaluate new ones consider how many pages they have indexed, how fast you can search through those pages, how easy it is to use advanced commands, and how relevant the results are.

Think!

·         Know when to stop searching (do what?) who the heck does that?

·         Take time to learn about the different search engines and determine for yourself what best fits your needs.

·         Remember that if you don’t find what you are looking for with one search engine, it doesn’t mean that the information doesn’t exist.

My Best Advice

·         Spend 20% of your search time using new, different or unique sources

·         Things change or even stop working so spend 10% of your time looking for NEW sources

A Peek at My Favorite Alternatives

Duckduckgo.com

What? Not a search engine but searches all the best ones and helps you get better results because of its simple to use interface across all searches.

So What? It doesn’t track cookies so you get the real unfiltered results, AND you can use natural language syntax

Now What?

Explore the commands at https://duck.co/help/results/syntax. For example, what could you do with b:resume?

Go Bang! Check out http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html and figure out what you could do with !dogpile

Etools.ch

What? A Swiss meta-search engine

So What? It searches major international search engines fast and extensively

Now What?

“my resume” “software engineer” j2ee “san francisco” -job

Let’s try this in advanced settings: UX “my portfolio” hasbro elf

Junoba

What? A very simple and user friendly.

So What? It shows you the web results against your queries as well as social media results!

Now What? Try searching for images on this one...

Millionshort

What? An experimental “discovery engine” that eliminates the top one million popular sites from your searches .

So What? Discover sites that don't make it to the top of regular search engine results. Think about it - isn’t that where all the garbage is that you are trying to avoid?

Now What? Start with the opposite, go to MillionTALL.com and search using the name of one of your hard-to-find candidates you’ve been trying to track down. What do you get? Lots of Twitter, Quora, LinkedIn, Facebook… etc. Now go to MillionSHORT.com and take out the top 1 million popular sites, now what do you get?

Hope to see you in Orlando!!

Talent 42 Conference

I just signed up to attend the Talent 42 Conference in Seattle on June 13-14th! I am very excited for two reasons. Number 1 is the content and speakers that are lined up is awesome and Number 2 I have never been to Seattle. I also get to hang with my Sourcing 7 aka Seattle recruiters sharing sourcing/recruiting best practices and ideas! If you can attend I highly recommend attend this event!

Meeting of the minds at TAG Recruiting

After conducting and attending tonights TAG Recruiting Meeting http://www.tagonline.org/tag-recruiting.php , I had the opportunity to have a late meeting after the meeting with Ed Newman and Eric Jaquith. The discussion was incredible, The inspiration was think in the air with two legends of the recruiting industry. So worth talking into the late wee hours!

At #TagRecruit meeting to introduce our speaker tonight Gary Conaway @Gconaway21!!!

Awesome day connecting with #UX professionals to join #Avanade 's Experience Design Team. Awesome opportunities to compliment our Service Lines!

awesome! #sharepoint architect opportunity with #avanade in NYC, check it out! http://bit.ly/flF5W1

Radical Source ATL- you have to attend! Seriously!!

  So, a couple of months ago, I stepped of my branch and decided that I really need to come out behind the leaves and publically participate in some type of recruiting capacity such as a conference or training. The opportunity presented itself as Geoff Webb approached me and asked if me and several other of my peers if we would like to participate in Radical Source ATL. I thought about and said, what the heck, lets do it!
  So on Dec 15th, you have to come join us, this is going to be one heck of a gathering in the ATL. If you think about the Atlanta Recruiting community, we have some of the best and brightest recruiters/sourcers in the country, ok, I am biased, but really, it would be a good argument! This conference is going to be unconference style. What I am expecting is a super collaboration of the minds that will challenge each other in both positive and negative situations, debating over recruiting subjects from a challenging perspective. Like other conferences that I attend, its usually the speakers opinions and show, but what we will have at Radical is thought processes in a group collaborating on hopefuly edgy stuff people would not say at a larger conference. So............
  I am dropping the hammer, I am going to lead a track that I am going to call-

Mobile Recruiting? Really? Cmon....... 

Yea, I said it, I am ready, I expect a uproar, I expect some of my mobile guru friends to show up and defend their ideas and I expect some might agree with that title. But what I want to happen is we get into a serious debate with no presentations and let's lay it down about Mobile Recruiting. Lets get it out in the open, bring on your opinions, positive and negative, I will make sure I bring the kid loves in case we get a little physical in our debate! 

 Are you up to the challenge? Do you really want to get the inside opinions, what is at stake for the future of this technology, well then, I expect to see you in Atlanta for Radical Source ATL on Dec 15th, 2010. We are going to lay it down and get gritty and hopefully come out feeling satisfied about mobile recruiting because you let your voice and opinion be heard. See you there!!!

wow! digging the recruiting transformation panel discussion #ereexpo

quick eats with @jillrosenfield @steverath #ereexpo

Awesome SharePoint Opportunity with Avanade in Houston, TX

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#tagrecruit meeting after the the meeting about to start. awesome!!

WAS-R to ATL #sourcecon completed!!!

Great, Great recruiting conference in DC! awesome networking and meeting friends and peers! #sourcecon

getting mentally prepared for Wowism information overload and sharing at #sourcecon

Score! great conversation with @ericjaquith on plane to DC #sourcecon

@booleanblackblt speaking at #TagRecruit, do not miss it! http://ping.fm/hhPJ9

ATL recruiting lead: http://bit.ly/9kd7Sv contact jlanghan@starbucks.com for more info

listening to @richardcho with facebook #socialrecruiting

thank you #pinstripetalent for sponsoring #socialrecruiting !!