Writing emails to candidates takes time, practice, and patience. You’re competing with possibly 100+ other emails that all land in a person’s inbox on any given day. You must stand out and grab their attention before they hit the “delete” button.
As a recruiter, it’s vitally important that you have a professional online brand image for the sake of your career and your company’s employment brand. Chances are that any good candidate who is speaking to you will, at the very minimum, view your LinkedIn...
As unglamorous and low tech as it may sound, the fact is that you must be excellent on the phone if you hope to be a top recruiter. The best teams I’ve ever worked with are on the phone all the time. However, there are some fairly high tech tools you can use to...
Github and StackOverflow are the world’s largest online community of software developers. If you’re a software or development recruiter and you’re not sourcing from these two sites, you’re missing a huge candidate pool. However, you can’t search for candidates the traditional way of entering keywords. Learn how the pros search these sites!
Introduction to GitHub and StackOverflow
How to find candidates using GitHub and StackOverflow search
A great way to find more qualified LinkedIn profiles is to use x-ray (also known as site search or site:search). If you are going to use an x-ray search, changing your Google search from “All results” to “Verbatim” allows you to leverage Boolean Search Operations...
