recruitDC Spring 2016 Shannon Pritchett - Editor, SourceCon

1. Practical Tips to Identify and
Engage Talent
Shannon Pritchett
@SourcingShannon

5. Which should we care about?
(intitle:resume OR inurl:resume OR intitle:cv OR inurl:cv
OR intitle:vitae OR inurl:vitae OR intitle:bio OR inurl:bio
OR intitle:"about me" OR inurl :"about me" OR
intitle:portfolio OR inurl:portfolio) graphic (design OR
designer) dreamweaver html css php

6. Sharing Their Positive Experience - CandEs
82.8% share with their inner circle
51% share their experience on social

8. site:about.me "graphic design"
site:*.brandyourself.com "graphic design"
site:flavors.me "graphic design"
site:hi.im "graphic design"
site:pixelhub.me "graphic design"
site:zerply.com "graphic design"
site:visualize.me "graphic design"
site:me "graphic design"

9. https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=002682709781726449870:f5jh5vd0xsa

10. Experiment with your searches
"graphic (design OR designer)" "(contact OR call OR email OR follow
OR dm OR network OR join) (me OR at OR on)"
"graphic (design OR designer)" "(contact OR call OR email OR follow
OR dm OR network OR join) (me OR at OR on)"

14. (java OR j2ee OR c#) mysql -intitle:resume
-inurl:resume -job -jobs -sample -samples
-linkedin (214 OR 469 OR 972) (tx OR texas)

15. (java OR j2ee OR c#) mysql -intitle:resume
-inurl:resume -job -jobs -sample -samples
-linkedin "*@gmail.com" (tx OR texas)

16. SourceHub

17. SourceHub
("software" OR "s/ware" OR "it" OR "ict" OR "applications" OR
"information technology" OR "crm" OR "erp" OR "cloud" OR
"application" OR "saas" OR "digital" OR "web" OR "j2ee" OR "tech" OR
".net" OR "sdlc" OR "testing" OR "app" OR "sap") AND ("engineer" OR
"beng" OR "b.eng" OR "designer" OR "eng" OR "engineering" OR
"engineers" OR "enginner" OR "engr" OR "engineered" OR "enginneer"
OR "eng." OR "engineeer" OR "enginering" OR "egr" OR "engneer" OR
"enginners" OR "fitter" OR "meng" OR "scientist" OR "technician" OR
"technical")AND (".net" OR "asp" OR "dotnet" OR "dot net" OR "wcf"
OR "c#" OR "asp.net" OR "c#.net" OR "ado.net" OR "vb.net" OR
"sharepoint" OR "c sharp" OR "mvc" OR "clr" OR "iis" OR "linq" OR
"xaml" OR "nunit" OR "Entity Framework")AND ("seattle")

18. Boolean - Less is More
Avoid over using OR NOT intitle: inurl:
resume "graphic designer" photoshop illustrator texas
-sample -jobs

20. www.intel-sw.com/blog/facebook-search/www.intel-sw.com/blog/facebook-search/

21. Women, BS CS, Stanford
https://www.facebook.com/search/females/intersect/str/
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/computer%20science/pages-
named/students/intersect
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/stanford/pages-
named/students/intersect
https://www.facebook.com/search/females/intersect/str/computer
%20science/pages-named/students/intersect/str/stanford/pages-
named/students/intersect

23. Natural Language Search
"i am a graphic designer" OR "i'm a graphic
designer" photoshop
"(he OR she) is (the OR a) graphic designer"
"she is (our OR the OR a) graphic designer"
(she OR her OR hers OR girl OR girls OR women
OR woman OR female)

24. Natural Language Searches
"(i OR my) (specialty OR specialties OR
specialize) (is OR are OR in) (photoshop OR
adobe OR illustrator OR dreamweaver OR html
OR css OR php)"

25. (nurse OR rn OR bsn) ("right to left" OR "left to right")

26. Look for names
Example: (intitle:team OR inurl:team OR intitle:people OR inurl:people)
(team OR people OR members OR employees) (202 OR 443 OR 410 OR 301 OR
240 OR 667 OR 703 OR 757 OR 804 OR 571 OR 540)
(intitle:team OR inurl:team OR intitle:staff OR inurl:staff OR intitle:people OR
inurl:people OR intitle:members OR inurl:members OR intitle:employees OR
inurl:employees OR intitle:personnel OR inurl:personnel OR intitle:attendees OR
inurl:attendees OR intitle:roster OR inurl:roster) (auditor OR controller OR actuary
OR "internal auditor" OR "internal * auditor") (202 OR 443 OR 410 OR 301 OR
240 OR 667 OR 703 OR 757) -jobs

28. Just do this …
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/alumni?
name=university%20OR%20(NOT%20university)

31. Words of advice
Observe first!
Where are they congregating?
How do they speak?
Be respectful of the candidates time
Find creative ways to ask questions

32. More advice
Get a candidate to laugh
Q: how many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: none, that's a hardware problem
Be respectful of the candidates time
Find creative ways to ask questions
Be human, be humble

33. Finally …
Don’t vomit jobs
Understand people motivators; make an effort
What do they want?
Our motivations shouldn’t come first
Work with hiring managers on educating them with data
Show you’re the expert

34. Presentation by Shannon Pritchett
@SourcingShannon
linkedin.com/in/SourcingShannon
facebook.com/svancuren
Shannon@ere.net
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