Recruiting today: Sources of information search and aggregation

  Post Source: Victor Soroka (Russian Recruiter)

" Deciding What not to do is as Important as Deciding What to do. "-  
Steve Jobs

The modern recruiting involves work with a lot of diverse information. Earlier in the recruiter's arsenal was only a few sources to search for potential candidates, but now the number of these "hunting grounds" is constantly growing and in the first place there is the question of how to choose the most effective resources in terms of Return on Interest (under the investment is first and foremost mean time by ensuring that search). Here are just a small part of the sources of information that can be used today to search for candidates: LinkedIn, Google +, Branchout, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, specialized portals, forums and communities (Scguild and etc.)

If some of the tools are easy enough in terms of search and analytics, while others are limited in this respect, and to require full use of various "tricks", such as X-Ray Search or Custom Search Engines, which in turn translates into more time-consuming.Whatever it was, now it becomes clear that to cover all possible resources is problematic, and there are recruiters come to the rescue services for aggregating information. The problem (in terms of recruiting), both of these resources is that they collect only basic information - only your immediate contacts and do not provide comprehensive search capabilities. More interesting in this respect is service thesocialcv , which I learnt recently. The main idea - Thesocialcv a system that automatically brings together different social profiles of potential candidates, and allows you to search across a subset of them. Here you can see a short movie about how the service works. According to the founders of the resource, to date they have processed more than 100 million different social profiles. Here's what a search form:

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