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How Would You Search for Candidates for this Job? Senior Financial Analyst
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Feel free to use a fake name (e.g., Recruiter1, Yoda, etc.), and you can even use a fake email address so there is absolutely no way anyone, including me, can identify you.Įither way – don’t be shy, and please contribute! If sourcing isn’t something you’re responsible for – please forward this to someone who would like to participate.

That excludes Internet search engines and LinkedIn.
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I would also like to limit you to creating search strings that would run on a source that allows for longer strings and supports full Boolean logic as well as stemming (e.g., config* to return configure, configured, configuration, etc.). The job description and hiring profile I pulled from Indeed is quite long and appears more complex. I also specified that participants could craft searches using the source of their choice – the Internet, LinkedIn, Monster, an ATS, etc.įor this experiment, I am going in the opposite direction. In the first Boolean search string experiment, I used a relatively basic and brief job description. You Can Contribute to the Global Sourcing Community!Īll you need to do is comment on this post with your search string(s) and include a brief overview of your analysis and approach to searching for the hiring profile below.
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Unlike professional athletes and musicians whose skills and techniques are on display and scientists who publish their work for others to analyze, the skills and techniques of sourcers and recruiters responsible for talent discovery are not widely publicly available.Ī powerful and effective way to demonstrate the fact that not all searches are created equal (nor do they return the same number and quality of results!) is to offer the global sourcing and recruiting community the opportunity to share and view the search strings and strategies of many sourcers and recruiters all crafting searches for the same hiring profile. Much of the “magic” of sourcing (or lack thereof!) happens on each person’s computer screen for no one else to see, appreciate, or learn from.

In many organizations, sourcers and recruiters do not often get (or even seek out) the opportunity to compare and contrast their search strategies and tactics with a large community of their peers on a position-by-position basis. Public Basis of Search Strategy Comparison

When searching to identify talent, the more effective you are at translating your information needs (skills, experience, qualifications, etc.) into queries, the more likely you are to find all of the best candidates any particular source of talent has to offer. Queries are formal statements of information needs. However, human capital informational and competitive advantage can be achieved through more effective retrieval – in other words, more effective queries (i.e., Boolean search strings). When it comes to information retrieval– which is the science of searching for documents (e.g., resumes, press releases, etc.), for information within documents (e.g., experience and qualifications), as well as searching relational databases and the Internet – simply having access to the information does not afford a sourcer, recruiter or organization any competitive advantage. Or can you? Information Retrieval is the Key You can’t be aware of something your searches do not return. The most important question to ask is anyone actually finding all of the best candidates that the particular source has to offer? Believe it or not, some of the best candidates are never found by the people who are searching for them. However, not all search strings or strategies are created equal, nor are the results that are returned.īecause of this fact, 20 different sourcers and recruiters searching the same source (LinkedIn, the Internet, Monster, etc.) will find some of the same candidates, but each will also find some that the others do not. Back in November, I posted a Boolean search challenge to demonstrate that when you give a number of sourcers and recruiters the same job description/hiring profile to search for, you will get as many different searches and search strategies as you have sourcers and recruiters.Īs I have said many times before, every search string “works,” provided they are syntactically correct.
