practical tips to identify and engage talent

Practical Tips to Identify and Engage Talent

Shannon Pritchett@SourcingShannon

Which should we care about?(intitle:resume OR inurl:resume OR intitle:cv OR inurl:cv OR intitle:vitae OR inurl:vitae OR intitle:bio OR inurl:bio OR intitle:"about me" OR inurl :"about me" OR intitle:portfolio OR inurl:portfolio) graphic (design OR designer) dreamweaver html css php

Sharing Their Positive Experience - CandEs

82.8% share with their inner circle51% share their experience on social

site:about.me "graphic design"site:*.brandyourself.com "graphic design"site:flavors.me "graphic design"site:hi.im "graphic design" site:pixelhub.me "graphic design" site:zerply.com "graphic design" site:visualize.me "graphic design"site:me "graphic design"

https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=002682709781726449870:f5jh5vd0xsa

Experiment with your searches

"graphic (design OR designer)" "(contact OR call OR email OR follow OR dm OR network OR join) (me OR at OR on)"

(java OR j2ee OR c#) mysql -intitle:resume -inurl:resume -job -jobs -sample -samples -linkedin (214 OR 469 OR 972) (tx OR texas)

(java OR j2ee OR c#) mysql -intitle:resume -inurl:resume -job -jobs -sample -samples -linkedin "*@gmail.com" (tx OR texas)

SourceHub

SourceHub("software" OR "s/ware" OR "it" OR "ict" OR "applications" OR "information technology" OR "crm" OR "erp" OR "cloud" OR "application" OR "saas" OR "digital" OR "web" OR "j2ee" OR "tech" OR ".net" OR "sdlc" OR "testing" OR "app" OR "sap") AND ("engineer" OR "beng" OR "b.eng" OR "designer" OR "eng" OR "engineering" OR "engineers" OR "enginner" OR "engr" OR "engineered" OR "enginneer" OR "eng." OR "engineeer" OR "enginering" OR "egr" OR "engneer" OR "enginners" OR "fitter" OR "meng" OR "scientist" OR "technician" OR "technical") AND (".net" OR "asp" OR "dotnet" OR "dot net" OR "wcf" OR "c#" OR "asp.net" OR "c#.net" OR "ado.net" OR "vb.net" OR "sharepoint" OR "c sharp" OR "mvc" OR "clr" OR "iis" OR "linq" OR "xaml" OR "nunit" OR "Entity Framework") AND ("seattle")

Boolean - Less is More Avoid over using OR NOT intitle: inurl:

resume "graphic designer" photoshop illustrator texas -sample -jobs

www.intel-sw.com/blog/facebook-search/

Women, BS CS, Stanford https://www.facebook.com/search/females/intersect/str/

https://www.facebook.com/search/str/computer%20science/pages-named/students/intersect

https://www.facebook.com/search/str/stanford/pages-named/students/intersect

https://www.facebook.com/search/females/intersect/str/computer%20science/pages-named/students/intersect/str/stanford/pages-named/students/intersect

Natural Language Search

"i am a graphic designer" OR "i'm a graphic designer" photoshop

"(he OR she) is (the OR a) graphic designer"

"she is (our OR the OR a) graphic designer"

(she OR her OR hers OR girl OR girls OR women OR woman OR female)

Natural Language Searches

"(i OR my) (specialty OR specialties OR specialize) (is OR are OR in) (photoshop OR adobe OR illustrator OR dreamweaver OR html OR css OR php)"

(nurse OR rn OR bsn) ("right to left" OR "left to right")

Look for namesExample: (intitle:team OR inurl:team OR intitle:people OR inurl:people)

(team OR people OR members OR employees) (202 OR 443 OR 410 OR 301 OR 240 OR 667 OR 703 OR 757 OR 804 OR 571 OR 540)

(intitle:team OR inurl:team OR intitle:staff OR inurl:staff OR intitle:people OR inurl:people OR intitle:members OR inurl:members OR intitle:employees OR inurl:employees OR intitle:personnel OR inurl:personnel OR intitle:attendees OR inurl:attendees OR intitle:roster OR inurl:roster) (auditor OR controller OR actuary OR "internal auditor" OR "internal * auditor") (202 OR 443 OR 410 OR 301 OR 240 OR 667 OR 703 OR 757) -jobs

Just do this …

https://www.linkedin.com/edu/alumni?name=university%20OR%20(NOT%20university)

Words of advice

Observe first!Where are they congregating?How do they speak?

Be respectful of the candidates timeFind creative ways to ask questions

More advice

Get a candidate to laugh Q: how many programmers does it take to

change a light bulb?A: none, that's a hardware problem

Be respectful of the candidates timeFind creative ways to ask questionsBe human, be humble

Finally …

Don’t vomit jobsUnderstand people motivators; make an

effortWhat do they want?Our motivations shouldn’t come first

Work with hiring managers on educating them with data

Show you’re the expert

Presentation by Shannon Pritchett

@SourcingShannonlinkedin.com/in/SourcingShannonfacebook.com/svancurenShannon@ere.net

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