July 2007
8 posts
Be a Groupie
By now you’re probably familiar with online Groups… you’re probably a member of one or more yourself. Here are a few tips on how to get the best recruiting results out of Groups:
1. The two biggest online Group repositories are at Yahoo and Google. Both Group sources began their lives elsewhere before they were acquired by their current owners, so both are very well...
Want cheaper campaigns?
We decided the best way to celebrate our 1,000 Campaign milestone was… how else?… with a sale! For a limited time our clients will be able to save 15% on our most popular service, the 10 Day Ultimate Campaign. Who benefits most from this sale? Any SourceSimple client who will request 10 or more campaigns in the future. Not only will clients save 15% off standard pricing, they’ll...
Thanks, Mohamed Ali
Mohamed Ali (not the boxer, the recruiter at Cisco) just released a really cool tool. He used the custom search widgets that Google offers to create shortcut searches. Recruiters can use his search site to produce better results from Google more easily. The directions are straightforward. Take a look at Big5Hire.com for more details. Thanks Mohamed, and Happy Hunting!!
1,000 Campaigns!
Today, July 25, 2007, at 6:22PM Pacific time, SourceSimple received campaign request number One Thousand!! It seems like as good a time as any for the first release of our stats to date: * 81% of clients who requested one campaign came back for another * 98% of clients are happy with the price point and the pricing model * 29% of campaigns in the last 6 weeks produced a candidate who will...
The Value of Passive Candidates
Every day I speak with recruiters who tell me they want ‘passive’ candidates. When I tell them what we do at SourceSimple, they say “Interesting… but how will that get me passive candidates?” The first question I always ask is “Why do you want passive candidates?” There is the widespread (mis)belief that passive candidates are inherently better. This is...
'A Players' Don't Exist
I’ve been in recruitment since 1996, filling various functions at various times. In all that time nearly every report I’ve read, nearly every strategy I’ve seen, has been about how to locate, recruit, and retain ‘A Players’. While the definition of ‘A Players’ is slightly different for variant industries and occupations, it always revolves around a...
Why SourceSimple?
SourceSimple is now 9 months old (launched October 30, 2006). We do ‘Baseline Sourcing’ — (‘BaSo’ —> pronounced ‘bay-so’) — we post our clients’ jobs on relevant job boards and search relevant databases for qualified candidates. It sounds incredibly simple, right? Why would anyone pay for a service that can easily be done without us?...
Time is everything
For the past 5 years, I’ve tried to blog. Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, whatever the latest hot flavor was… free sites, open source apps, paid apps. Routine blogging is like routine exercise: for me, it just doesn’t happen. The best of intentions die within a few days, crushed under the onslaught of other more pressing demands. Enter TUMBLR It’s really easy, man. No...