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Tools

Support your goals

Support your sourcing strategy

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

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?

Integrate...

Again with the goals

Work any new tools into your overall strategy

Test. Review. Iterate

All the shiny things...

Search Engines

Social Aggregators

Automation

Social Tools

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

Blekko

Blekko

Quick Tip: Profile Images

Try using reverse image search on a profile pic

Use Google Images & TinEye to do these searches

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

kgbpeople & Webmii

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

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

OutWit Hub

Thanks!Andrea Mitchell

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