In the premiere episode of “Searchology,” Jim Stroud demonstrates to Recruiters how to find passive candidates with Google Profiles. Want more? Subscribe to The Searchologist and get instant access to exclusive content designed to boost your resume sourcing and lead generation efforts.

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“I have been involved in online research and online lead generation for over a decade,” Jim Stroud says. “I never get tired of seeking out the next big thing and applying it to lead gen.”

Jim Stroud has been using his online research and lead generation skills for such companies as Microsoft, Google, MCI, Siemens and several internet startup companies.

“It was my day-to-day to find people who fit a certain profile, build a contact list based on that criteria and then reach out to them about an opportunity. Although I was doing it for  recruiting purposes, it’s not much different than finding sales leads.”

It was the state of the economy that inspired Jim Stroud to launch this new initiative.

“When times are great, people still want sales’  leads. How much more do they want them now?” Stroud says, “Ironically,  recruiters still need ways to find people for opportunities. Despite the proliferation of resumes being tossed around on job boards, some  recruiters are still having a tough time filling positions because many candidates are very risk adverse these days and prefer to stay where they are rather than join a new company.”

Here is a snapshot of some of the content that is exclusive to The Searchologist blog:

* VIDEO: How to find free resumes on Google
* How to find free resumes on Yahoo
* How to find clients for your recruiting business
* How to generate recruiting leads on Flickr
* How to find free resumes on Scribd
* How to  source the best of the best
* How to find software engineers by searching patents online
* How to find  stay-at-home Moms (and Dad’s)
* How to find more resumes and target your search by using TLDs
* How to find  software  developers by tracking the servers they use
* How to generate leads from Plurk
* How  to  find  ColdFusion  developers
* How  to  f ind US- based  candidates with  bilingual skills
* How to find  linux geeks
* How  to  find experts of  any  field  on  the Internet
* VIDEO – How to recruit with YouTube
* How to find free resumes on the internet
* How to find resumes with Google’s new Similar Images app
* How to find passive technical candidates
* How to recruit Latin America
* How  to source  international  candidates
* How to get disinterested candidates to call you back
* How to track confidential resumes with Google
* How to automate  your  resume sourcing for $0.00
* VIDEO: Twitter – I Tweet Therefore I am
* How to source resumes from a Google  map
* How to find clients for your Las Vegas based recruiting business
* How to find leads from online  bookstores

The Searchologist is available online at http://search.jimstroud.com

“Nowadays, a lot of  recruiters and  sales professionals have to pay for their own training without company reimbursement and I wanted to be sensitive to that when I launched this site,” Stroud says. “This is why The Searchologist is priced so competitively when compared to other training programs and/or  webinars that teach online lead generation techniques to recruiters.”

Webinars on Online Lead Generation for Recruiters average $100.00 and some hands-on training programs range from several hundred dollars to just over a thousand dollars for an all day workshop. In contrast, Jim Stroud offers basic and  cutting-edge strategies of online lead generation strategies on a monthly subscription basis. For a monthly fee of $49.95, subscribers will have access to all of the content hosted on The Searchologist blog. (The subscriber fee of $49.95 is an introductory price.) It is also notable to mention that Jim Stroud has a generous affiliate program connected to The Searchologist as well. It is powered by ClickBank and pays affiliates monthly commissions.

When asked why he has decided to tie-in an affiliate program with his new site, Jim made the comment, “Recurring income is a beautiful thing. I don’t mind sharing the wealth.”

The Searchologist is available online at http://search.jimstroud.com

ABOUT JIM STROUD

Jim Stroud is a “Searchologist”  (someone adept at online research) with an expertise in the full life-cycle placement of Executive and Technical personnel, Recruitment Research and Competitive Intelligence. He has consulted for such companies as Google, Siemens, MCI and a host of start-up companies. During his 3-year tenure with Microsoft, he served as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and was a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Technical Careers Blog. He is presently a Social Media Development Manager for EnglishCafe – the premier English learning community for global professionals.

When not engaged in  recruitment  research,  competitive  intelligence and  t raining projects for the aforementioned organizations, Jim creates and sells online properties and manages an award-winning blog – The Recruiters Lounge. He is also the producer and co-host of the video series – I Live Online and co-host of the technology podcast – Friday Traffic Report. When he is not online, Jim suffers severe withdrawal pains that can only be soothed by chocolate chip cookies and family time.

Jim Stroud can be contacted via his website: www.JimStroud.com

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Dan Harris’ Guide to India Sourcing

INDIA SPECIFIC… 

***JOB/RESUME BOARDS ***

• http://www.naukri.com  - click on search cv/resumes for free on bottom right hand corner, #1 job site
• http://www.placementindia.com – click employer login, pay site
• http://www.jobsahead.com – I hear good resumes on this, maybe consider paying; pay site
• http://adbhai.com/  - Free Resumes – similar to craigslist but an India version – click on resumes/job wanted area
• http://www.swamijobs.in – do reverse searching see what other companies are hiring for what you’re looking for; you then have target company
• http://www.bixee.com – do reverse searching see what other companies are hiring for what you’re looking for; you then have target company
• http://www.quikr.com – click on area, click jobs, then click on resumes
• http://www.gladoo.com – find jobs India; do reverse searching so you have other target companies
• http://www.bixee.com – job search engine, do reverse search to find target companies hiring similar candidates.
• http://www.careerage.com – click employers – login and/or search candidates
• http://www.timesjobs.com – click on employer login; pay site
• http://www.jobvertise.com  - click on employer log-in, sign in (Free), click on Search International resumes, click dropdown of India
• http://www.jobisland.com  click on Find Resume button, sign-in (Free), chose India in drop down box to right side, see resumes

*** INFORMATION/NEWS/SEARCH ***

• http://kyapoocha.com/  - teaches basics/questions – good IT knowledge database – answers/questions
• http://www.indianyellowpages.com – India Yellow Pages/business search
• http://www.samachar.com  - similar to sify.com for search/news
• http://zatka.com/search.php – India Search Engine/portal, sify & yahoo most popular but zatka is good too I believe
• http://www.rediff.com  - very popular web news portal/site – check discussions/forums to find talent
• http://sify.com – very popular web news portal/site – check discussion/forums to find talent
• http://www.yahoo.in – very popular web search portal/site  
• http://www.guruji.com/ – India consumer search/reviews engine
• http://www.indiamart.com – b2b marketplace
• http://www.samfra.com – India local search engine
• http://www.dwaar.com/?q=resumes – India search engine

*** SOCIAL/NETWORKING/BLOG ***

• http://www.brijj.com – Business Social networking for India, type in a specific name or a company to see names & titles
• http://www.linkedzone.com – India Social networking site.  Mainly for Networking India job reqs.  India Linkedin.
• http://www.hellointern.com – India Students looking for Internships/company work.
• http://www.techtribe.com – India Social BUSINESS/TECHNICAL networking website
• http://www.ayojak.com  - for meet-ups/events/more to find people/groups
• http://www.chillx.com – India social networking site
• http://www.indimeme.com – tracks Indian technology blogs to find hot stories/what’s happening in India Technology
• http://yomacha.com – India Social networking site
• http://www.indiashines.com – India Social networking site
• http://www.boloji.com – India opinions/forum
• http://www.indiaza.com – India Social networking site
• http://www.indeeaa.com/home.php – India Social networking site
• http://www.goyaar.com/ – India Social networking site
• http://www.indiblogger.in – India blogs
• http://www.blogadda.com – India blogs
• http://www.vkoot.com – India Social networking site
• http://www.bigadda.com – Myspace for India
• http://www.minglebox.com – Myspace for India COLLEGE Students

FREE People Finder/People Search that is USEFUL…

• http://www.zoominfo.com
• http://www.ziggs.com
• http://www.xing.com
• http://www.wink.com
• http://www.spoke.com
• http://www.spock.com
• http://www.orkut.com
• http://www.myspace.com
• http://www.linkedin.com
• http://www.jigsaw.com

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TalentHook Rocks!

In this episode: Jim Stroud interviews Cheryl Hardy, Director of Marketing for TalentHook. Jim gets the inside scoop on TalentHook and how Recruiters can use it to automate their resume sourcing and protect their backsides from the OFCCP police. If you want to save time resume sourcing (so you can recruit more) tune in to this one.

(Length: 24:36)

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• Linkedin Recruiting Companion
• Facebook Recruiting Seminar
• MySpace Recruiting Seminar
• Web 2.0 Tools for Recruiting

Details:

LinkedIn: Recruiting Companion

LinkedIn is increasingly becoming the social network of choice for businesses and passive job-hunters. In an age where e-mail and voicemail can easily be avoided, LinkedIn represents a new and exciting channel that candidates prefer to use as an initial contact with recruiters.

In this 90 minute presentation, Jim demonstrates a step by step walk-through of how to use LinkedIn to source, connect and hire candidates. This video is designed to be effective both towards internal recruiters and third party firms.

Facebook Recruiting Seminar

The explosion of Facebook as a social networking tool is challenge for recruiters. Facebook users aren’t looking to be contacted about jobs, and the rules in using Facebook are much different than business networks. Yet up to 25% of Facebook prefer Facebook messaging over their email accounts. How can you tap into that pool?

Jim Durbin takes a look at Facebook from the eyes of an experienced staffing professional and provides live, actionable training on how to use Facebook to increase placements.

In a session that combines sourcing, contacting, and referral generation, Mr. Durbin shows recruiters how to navigate the tricky waters of the Facebook crowd.

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MySpace Recruiting Seminar

MySpace is the world’s largest social network. Over 100 million people are signed up as users, a number multiple times higher than that of the major job boards. When looking for populations to recruit, do you think MySpace is for you?

* 25% of Americans are on MySpace
* Over half of the registered users are over the age of 35.
* MySpace is the most trafficked website in the US
* 12% of all online minutes are spent on MySpace
* 13.6% of all internet users in the world are on MySpace
* With 15 languages available, MySpace is the most translated social network
* On average 300,000 new people sign up to MySpace every day

Jim Durbin, the Social Media Headhunter, continues his series on using social media to recruit with a webinar on sourcing and recruiting using MySpace.

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By the way, if you would like more videos on Resume Sourcing, click here to check out my collection on Mindbites. On Mindbites, you can preview the videos and download them to your computer and keep them forever. Its a great way to build up an internal resource site for your staffing team. (Hint-hint) For a VERY short time, my resume sourcing videos are dirt cheap, but only for a (very) limited time.

Okay, enough of that! Take a peek at the video below and let me know your thoughts on what Google has done. Cool? Thanks…

How to speed up your Resume Sourcing Time on the “new” Google

For more information about Google’s new search results format (aka Search Wiki), click here for their Web Search Help Guide.
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Resume Sourcing
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Q: Is there a way I can speed up my sourcing time? I write and write and write search strings all day. How can I speed that up?

A: Have you considered creating your own resume search engine? Its not as hard as it sounds.   Below is a video explaining how to do some of that. Its not a freebie, but at the super-cheap price of $1.99, you can buy it, download it and play it forever on your computer or ipod. Enjoy…

VIDEO: “How to automate Resume Sourcing (part 3)” on Mindbites

 

Resume Sourcing
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The video above is produced in partnership with a new company called “MindBites.” Mindbites helps content developers make money by selling their videos (as I am doing from now on). How it works is very simple. The video preview above is 1-minute long. When it stops playing, you are given 3 options: 1) To replay the video again, 2) To go to the Full Lesson or 3) To share the preview video (via social bookmarking sites like Digg).

To view the rest of the video, click the orange “Go To” button (as shown below).

Clicking the “Go To” button will take you to a page on Mindbites where you can preview the video (again) and/or purchase the video. To purchase the video, click the “Buy Lesson” button as indicated by the arrow in the screenshot below.

Clicking the “Buy Lesson” will take you to the page shown in the screenshot below. On this page you can buy the video using PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express.

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ACT NOW! The price on my videos are only $1.99, but that will be increasing in the near-future. Load up on them at this super-cheap price while you can.

Happy hunting!

-Jim Stroud
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Q: Is there a way I can automate my tickler file? Say I find a hot candidate online (or a good resume), but they are not looking to leave their present job. How can I keep up with them without sounding too pushy? 

A: (At the risk of repeating myself from last post) I feel your pain having been there so many times in the past. No worries. Just do what I used to do and automate all you can. Below is a video explaining how to do some of that. Its not a freebie, but at the super-cheap price of $1.99, you can buy it, download it and play it forever on your computer or ipod.  Enjoy…

VIDEO: “How to automate Resume Sourcing (part 2)” on Mindbites

 

Resume Sourcing
made easy

 

Want More?

The video above is produced in partnership with a new company called “MindBites.” Mindbites helps content developers make money by selling their videos (as I am doing from now on). How it works is very simple. The video preview above is 1-minute long. When it stops playing, you are given 3 options: 1) To replay the video again, 2) To go to the Full Lesson or 3) To share the preview video (via social bookmarking sites like Digg).

To view the rest of the video, click the orange “Go To” button (as shown below).

Clicking the “Go To” button will take you to a page on Mindbites where you can preview the video (again) and/or purchase the video. To purchase the video, click the “Buy Lesson” button as indicated by the arrow in the screenshot below.

Clicking the “Buy Lesson” will take you to the page shown in the screenshot below. On this page you can buy the video using PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express.

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ACT NOW! The price on my videos are only $1.99, but that will be increasing in the near-future. Load up on them at this super-cheap price while you can.

Happy hunting!

-Jim Stroud
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Q: Jim, there are not enough hours in the day! I need time to Source, so I will have people to recruit, but I have so many phonescreens that I don’t have time to source. This is driving me crazy!!!!

A: I feel your pain having been there so many times in the past. No worries. Just do what I used to do and automate all you can. Below is a video explaining how to do some of that. Its not a freebie, but at the super-cheap price of $1.99, you can buy it, download it and play it forever on your computer or ipod. (Its also about 8 minutes long.) Enjoy…

VIDEO: “How to automate Resume Sourcing” on Mindbites

Resume Sourcing
made easy

Want More?

The video above is produced in partnership with a new company called “MindBites.” Mindbites helps content developers make money by selling their videos (as I am doing from now on). How it works is very simple. The video preview above is 1-minute long. When it stops playing, you are given 3 options: 1) To replay the video again, 2) To go to the Full Lesson or 3) To share the preview video (via social bookmarking sites like Digg).

To view the rest of the video, click the orange “Go To” button (as shown below).

Clicking the “Go To” button will take you to a page on Mindbites where you can preview the video (again) and/or purchase the video. To purchase the video, click the “Buy Lesson” button as indicated by the arrow in the screenshot below.

Clicking the “Buy Lesson” will take you to the page shown in the screenshot below. On this page you can buy the video using PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express.

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ACT NOW! The price on my videos are only $1.99, but that will be increasing in the near-future. Load up on them at this super-cheap price while you can.

Happy hunting!

-Jim Stroud
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Q: Jim, I am going out of mind dealing with the Recruiters I support!!! They keep changing the project I am working on, but want to keep the deadlines the same. Plus… (censored) I need my job, so I’m afraid to make too much fuss. How can I get my point across to them without strangling them?

A: Wow! Your letter had a lot of… um… emotion to it that I am sure many Sourcers can identify with. Fortunately, the resolution to your problem is easy. Create a Service Level Agreement and let that govern all the work you do from now on. If you don’t have one, click here.

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Imagine yourself as a Sourcer working on a research project and just as you deliver your results, your client becomes irate with you because they did not receive what they were expecting. Consider the frustration of dealing with a customer who manages to change the parameters of a project every other week, but still expects you to meet the original deadline. Worse yet, what do you do once you have supplied data to your client and they refuse to give you feedback on your work or pay you for your time? I can sympathize with each of these scenarios because I have lived through them all and much, much more.

As a “Searchologist,” I have been involved with Recruitment Research (Sourcing) projects for over a decade. I have worked for large corporations like Microsoft, Google, Siemens and MCI, as well as various smaller firms. Believe me when I tell you that the leading cause of customer dissatisfaction is miscommunication. When different perceptions abound, client relationships are damaged, time is wasted and your reputation is harmed. One sure way to avoid a lot of needless drama is to agree on the scope of a project, then write up a contract detailing the final deliverable. The name for such a contract is called a “Service Level Agreement.”

A Service Level Agreement will keep you from a lot of pain, preserve your professionalism and impress your clients. Some companies use Service Level Agreements when engaging Sourcers, but I would dare say that most do not. As a result, the true value of a Sourcing Department is never fully realized due to conflicting views on what a Sourcer should be doing. Due to the popularity of my blog – The Recruiters Lounge and my activities with SourceCon, I am approached (a LOT) for suggestions on how Sourcers can best communicate with their clients. As a result, I have created a Sourcing Service Level Agreement.

Click here for more information (or the button below) and to download your copy now.

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