June 20-21 in London, one of the most well-known international sourcing conferences, Sourcing Summit, took place. We learned so much interesting information that we can't help but share it with you.
Henk van Ess
Henk van Ess began the conference with his presentation. He talked about searching on Facebook and familiar URL query methods. A useful tip: if Facebook provides many people with the same name, and their profiles don't include the company they work for, try this query:
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/elena+volk/users-named/141223719258758/employees/friends/intersect
This query retrieves profiles of people with the same name who have friends working at the same company. Just replace the name and surname and the company's ID number.
He also shared an alternative method for finding people by email (thanks to Victor Sorokeza for this method!). You do know that Facebook recently disabled this feature, right?
Irina Shamaeva
Irina's presentation was very impressive, as always, with lots of practical and useful information! She talked about several useful Boolean search queries. A helpful hack: try searching by email on LinkedIn (simply replace my email at the end of the link): https://www.linkedin.com/sales/gmail/profile/viewByEmail/7elenavolk@gmail.com
Karen Azulai
Karen is a fan of sourcing tools and shared the ones she tried and liked. Maybe some of them will be useful to you? Here's a list of some of them: Peoplecamp, HiringSolved, Arya, Pocket Recruiter, WeFind.
Angie Verros
Angie's presentation was about increasing response rates to our emails. We all know the basic principles, but do we use them? Or do we continue to save time and send generic messages? The key principles are:
- Understand what it's like to be bombarded with recruiter emails;
- Understand why candidates don't respond;
- Be a person first and a recruiter second;
- See them as people first and candidates second;
- Dedicate time to reading profiles;
- Avoid using the words "job opportunity";
- Understand what your candidates want.
Laura Stoker
Laura shared interesting life hacks and new ways to source IT specialists. For example, try this website for searching: http://www.exalead.com/search. You can use familiar Boolean Search operators. Here's an example query for finding Java developers in Ukraine on LinkedIn: site:linkedin.com java Ukraine.
Josef Jose Kadlec
Josef was the person who impressed everyone by downloading all the email addresses of participants who connected to the Wi-Fi at the conference. He also talked about hacking and demonstrated some examples of how you can forward SMS from one number to another, copy voices, and more.
