My very brief presentation from the RECTEC conference held in Sydney November 2011

1. Emerging Tools & Innovation
Find. Evaluate. Integrate

2. Tools
Support your goals
Support your sourcing strategy

3. Find...
First thing first: What’s the goal?
Finding and attracting & engaging candidates
Find new tools by reading blogs, following people on
Twitter, connecting at conferences
This could also include technology news eg
TechCrunch
Set up RSS
Think outside the square

4. Evaluate...
Remember your goals
Does it save you time?
This may not be immediately obvious
Does it give you access to new pools of talent?

5. Integrate...
Again with the goals
Work any new tools into your overall strategy
Test. Review. Iterate

6. All the shiny things...
Search Engines
Social Aggregators
Automation
Social Tools

7. Search Engine: Blekko
Features: Slashtags, No Spam, Human/Tech Mix
Try using /people
Use a keywords then /findslashtags
Create your own Slashtags
Get RSS for your results

8. Blekko

9. Blekko

10. Quick Tip: Profile Images
Try using reverse image
search on a profile pic
Use Google Images &
TinEye to do these
searches

11. Social Aggregators
Get information from a variety of sources
Best when you have a name and are building a profile
or cross referencing
Pull information from a large range of social sites so
you don’t have to check each one individually

12. kgbpeople & Webmii

13. Automation
You might be losing time on tasks that can be
automated
Most basic searches can be automated in some way
Google CSE & Blekko Slashtags are both examples of
automation
There are a lot of programs that support you in
automating; you may already have access to one

14. Automation: OutWit
OutWit is essentially a web scraper, it collects
information from websites
With some configuration you can tell it to ‘scrape’ a
website and pull down specific information then export
in a variety of formats e.g. Excel
Pro: Free/Low cost solution
Con: Configuration can be complicated

15. OutWit Hub

16. Thanks!
Andrea Mitchell
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