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We have been as Recruiters using searches using strings,operators,names,location,companies for our sourcing practices. With wide spread of ATS software or third party software to reduce our load of searching resumes and going downtime in getting matching/to be matched resumes by this softwares. Is it Man Vs Machine kind of approach going on ...   Does it benefit or doom and secondly questions are they really 100% match correct-still the definition of 100% accuracy is not been defined yet ,but it happens it certain times not always.I have been able to find key points where AI goes high or certain times AI is not so good.. Let start here on basics A software doesn't think on it own .let say for example a easy skill "C++ Developer".A ATS will take this two words gives search results of 10,000. But if it like this a role of "Argus Clinical Trial Manager",it would give resumes of 5000 with like this 1) A person working on Argus tool 2) A Manager workin...

It's been time i 'm away out of blog for sometime attending work activities.One day i was using Facebook,my recruiter thought starts using search ,hurray it works out and want to share the same on Facebook.Before i start here some titbits about Facebook Facebook is one thing not more searchable as like Linkedin,but really helps when your are out of search, facebook comes like small dagger when you want to continue fighting the search.It may look strange why i say this because here patience needs more in searching .Here you can use any of search ways 1) Co Worker Search 2) Profile Search 3) Yahoo’s Link domain Search As caution,never give your search practices saying facebook is not good.I would say it helped me when i put my mind and action in getting not a candidate and facebook has groups where you be member immediately not like Linkedin groups waiting for some moderator give yes or no as your life is on owner/moderator hands.This one i hate in Linkedin as if i leave my life ...

Twitter Search Twitter search is fairly straightforward. Because it's real time searching that we're doing here, don't expect to get number of results since that's fairly pointless in this situation. Just expect to get results from the last few seconds back, and you get the full tweet. Twitter search defaults to AND, and it recognises the OR option, but assumes that NOT is a search term, although the minus sign works in place of it. Unfortunately phrase searching isn't an option which is annoying, except that there is if you use the advanced search option. Search using hashtag (#) is a useful option, as long as you know what tags to use . A hashtag such as #uksnow is a neat and easy way to collate a series of tweets together on one subject, such as a conference for example. A search on said hashtag will then result in a series of tweets discussing that subject. This works in both basic and advanced search in the same way, with the same results. Language sear...

I have been seeing everyday lot of recruiters posting job ads in job boards,group,social networks without any proper job description/jd.I wonder it would be possible for them to get right profiles... Yes,their is always people in recruitment who won't agree as most think to submit resumes (Doing courier delivery,post man job of sending resumes to the client mail box) and some say,yea i got resumes through one line job posting as one line.Is this a creative way of recruitment. Nope.It is not.. I feel most recruiters don't get into research in job/skill before posting.It shows how lazy recruiters they are,by this they can escape day but it will not cut ice,most profiles get rejected because of 1) job description is not clear,so you get junk resumes 2) candidates they say they have but doesn't have,recruiters are clueless to ask right questions to determine he/she is right fit 3)Recruiters don't understand job description or take time to research on it Here is, of ...

Definition : Mobile Computing is about finding and connecting with people who use mobile phone, not about recruiting from or through your mobile phone. Mobile allows an employer to connect with candidates like never before. A connection based on relevance, engagement and consumer opt-in. With more than 4 billion handsets in the world, mobile is rapidly becoming the media of choice for savvy recruiters across the globe As Online Talent Acquisition and Sourcing has become more mobile, so has the need to use the more direct means to attract qualified andidates. SMS Text Messaging is a non-intrusive way to send a targeted recruitment message without the need for the candidate to respond or put a resume together. Furthermore, as Mobile recruiting advances many predict the text resume will be a thing of the past. In fact, many experts believe that candidates will instead one day create "digital profiles" that would include a summary of work experience, education, project/wo...

It happens most times that i couldn't reply to candidates messages or i miss it.It really makes me think that i missed that candidate so easily when the role that passed by and i didn't care to reply earlier . We know that candidate won't respond properly next time when you talk about exciting opportunity .... Let see what are the effects of missing candidates on not replying... The 15% Factor This number is thrown around a lot but I've heard it's pretty accurate - that only 15% of jobs are available through recruiters. Whether that is 15% of all jobs or 15% of manager/above jobs, I'm not sure. It makes sense when you remember that recruiters (rightly) are paid either a healthy percentage of your first year salary. They usually earn it - and then some. So it makes sense that recruiters do not make up a larger % of the effort. It's expensive. So what are the implications of this? .Your job search strategy should include an effort with recruiters that is...

WHAT IS CROWDSOURCING? The word “ Crowdsource” was apparently firstcoined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 in an article for Wired magazine, it is very much associated with “Web 2.0” ways of doing business where the internet moved from being a very large notice board to users generating much of the content. In essence “Crowdsourcing” means applying the thought of a large number of people to solve a problem or inform an issue. A good starting point for anybody wanting to see what is out there in terms of crowdsourcing". CROWDSOURCING IN RELATION TO RECRUITMENT? Actually we would argue that in relation to recruitment crowdsourcing isn’t new! For many years executive search firms have at the start of each new assignment set their researchers the task of speaking to lots of industry insiders to get their views and steers on who they might subsequently approach as candidates – i.e. consulting “the crowd”. But of course that wasn’t really crowdsourcing as we view it in 2009 because...