sourcing tools & tips
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My very brief presentation from the RECTEC conference held in Sydney November 2011TRANSCRIPT
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Emerging Tools & InnovationFind. Evaluate. Integrate
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Tools
Support your goals
Support your sourcing strategy
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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
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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?
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Integrate...
Again with the goals
Work any new tools into your overall strategy
Test. Review. Iterate
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All the shiny things...
Search Engines
Social Aggregators
Automation
Social Tools
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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
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Blekko
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Blekko
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Quick Tip: Profile Images
Try using reverse image search on a profile pic
Use Google Images & TinEye to do these searches
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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
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kgbpeople & Webmii
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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
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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
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OutWit Hub
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Thanks!Andrea Mitchell
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