You gotta love MSN Spaces…

Here is another Sourcing with MSN trick. Hope you like.

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MSN Spaces is Microsoft’s free blogging product and its full of people to recruit for your open reqs!!! Let me show you what I mean.

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1. Go to MSN Spaces and click the “Advanced People Search” link.

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2. Additional search options appear such as: “Occupation.” Hmm… Let’s imagine that I am looking to hire a Web Designer. Such being the case, I type in “Web Designer” in the occupation slot and click “Search.”

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3. Wowzers! At this writing, there are 1,018 Web Designers on the MSN Spaces network. Cool! Let me pick one of these for a closer look. Hmmm… Let’s go with Danny.

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4. Here is a screenshot of Danny’s Space in all its glory. Hmmm… How can I contact him to pitch a web design job?

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5. I mouse over Danny’s picture (see arrow) and a box appears around Danny’s picture and a small down arrow.

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6. I click the down arrow under Danny’s picture and am presented with a few options. I choose the “View Profile” option and click it.

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7. Abracadabra! I am taken to a page of information that Danny filled out about himself. I scroll down to the bottom of the page and what do I find?

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8. Well, lookee here… It’s Danny contact info. Cool! Now I can touch base with him about all of my wonderful opportunities.

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Now you see this as a cool strategy for finding Web Designers! I wonder how well it would work with your reqs? Let me know…

-Jim

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