Sourcing hacks to keep you ahead of the competition by Jim Stroud.

1. Wow! I have no
idea what I’m
going to say. Jim Stroud
Senior Director
Randstad Sourceright
presented at:
by:

2. This is what I want
to do…
Let’s share strategies!
Let’s share cool tools!
Tell me how you think!.

3. Tell me your strategy.

4. 1 Search for people who can be connected via social media
"dm me" cloud.computing
"find me on * " cloud.computing
"network with me on * " cloud.computing
"let's connect on * " cloud.computing
"skype me at * " cloud.computing
"tweet me at * " cloud.computing
"join me on on * " cloud.computing
"follow me on * " cloud.computing
More searches to try:
Oh! Searching on
cloud.computing and
“cloud computing” will
return the same results.

5. Tell me your strategy.

6. 2 Find people who have multiple versions of their resume online
When I did the search in French,
I found resumes written in
*French. Great for international
sourcing!"
Yeah!
"my CV" | "my resume" cloud.computing
"download my resume" cloud.computing
"download my cv" cloud.computing
"my vitae" cloud.computing
"download my resume" intitle:for | of | my cloud.computing
" télécharger mon cv " l'informatique intitle:de
More searches to try:

7. Tell me your strategy.
I have 2 strategies in mind.

8. 3 Find people who want to be contacted by email or phone
"email me at * " cloud.computing
"call me at * " cloud.computing
"phone me at " cloud.computing
"call my mobile" cloud.computing
"call my cell phone" cloud.computing
More searches to try:
Mmm… Gotta love that
low hanging-fruit.

9. 4 Find people based on personal branding pages
More searches to try:
site:*.brandyourself.com “cloud computing”
site:flavors.me “cloud computing”
site:vizify.com intitle:bio “cloud computing”
site:hi.im “cloud computing”
site:pixelhub.me “cloud computing”
site:zerply.com “cloud computing”
site:visualize.me “cloud computing”
You may want to try a search
on “Let’s Lunch” as well.*
*http://letslunch.com/search

10. Tell me your strategy.

11. 5 Find company employees on Twitter
Keep in mind that not all
companies have public twitter
lists of their employees.
Its still a decent hack.

12. I honestly don’t know.
What do you think?

13. 6 Track people by URL shorteners
site:tinyurl.com ("software * engineer" | "software developer") (he | she) -jobs -apply
site:bit.ly ("software * engineer" | "software developer") (he | she) -jobs -apply
site:goo.gl ("software * engineer" | "software developer") (he | she) -jobs -apply
Not sure if this is cool
or not but, it seems to
work well.
So, what’s going on with this
search? People share shortened
links on social media. By focusing
my search on short URLs, I am
sourcing leads from info that
people have been sharing online.
More short URLs to try:
site:Ow.ly
site:Su.pr

14. I honestly don’t know.
What do you think?

15. Look up the hottest articles
about cybersecurity.
7 Attract talent to you by sharing interesting content
a. Find a hot article based on the jobs you want to fill. Go to www.buzzsumo.com

16. 7 Attract talent to you by sharing interesting content
b. Shorten the URL with a personalized Sniply. Go to www.snip.ly
This has a free version
and a premium service.

17. 7 Attract talent to you by sharing interesting content
c. Share the Sniply URL anywhere and everywhere on social media.
Now you have recruitment
advertising on all the articles
you share with a Sniply URL.
Too cool!
Hat tip to @mobidextrous

18. I have a few tips, but I
would love to hear yours.
I’ll go first.

19. 8 Find competing technology in order to loosen up job requirements
Having trouble finding “ruby”
developers? Ask your client if
they are open to competing
products like Java, C# or Perl.
This works on
Google too. Just
sayin’…

20. 9 Get involved with communities that are exploding with growth
An Incomplete List of Communities on Slack — Medium http://buff.ly/1JW13rw
Start a group on Slack! Why?
• More attention, low
competition
• Higher engagement since its
real –time
• Its free
Read: How and Why to Create a Community With Slack http://buff.ly/1Q1zXAx
“Slack” is a real-time messaging
app. Mostly co-workers use it to
stay in touch with one another.
(Reminds me of Yammer.)

21. 10 A cool tool you can use ;-)

22. Okay, your turn!
What cool tools
are you using
these days?
Feel free to tweet
me some more
tips later!
:-)

23. Contact me:
Jim Stroud
Senior Director
RPO Recruitment Strategies & Support
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/jimstroud
Twitter: @jimstroud

24. At least, for now.