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4 Sourcing Tips for Recruiters

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Here at Reflik we get a lot of questions about sourcing the best candidates for any given job requirement. While there is no one absolute method to go about it nor is there one place to find all of your quality candidates, we thought we would give you a few of our sourcing tips to find great candidates.

Sourcing Tip 1) Plan Your Search

It’s best to know what you are looking for in a candidate before you actually start sourcing. Recruiters often overlook what the client is asking of them. Understanding the exact requirements of the job opening/position is critical to finding the right person for the job: his or her title, skill, expertise. After conducting initial searches, make sure to break out the trusty internal thesaurus and begin searching for alternative titles, skills, technologies and etc.

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Internal Thesaurus

Sourcing Tip 2) Figure out who to search for

It is a good idea to know what type of person is perfect for your role. An important rule of thumb is not to judge a candidate’s worth solely on his/her resume. Even professional resumes cannot detail every bit of a person’s experience and expertise.
A resume is a candidate’s attempt to remember his or her accomplishments, duties, and work experiences. So make sure to have a conversation with a candidate before writing them off. In addition, even if a particular candidate is not qualified for a job now he or she can be qualified for another job down the line, so always keep your candidates in the back of your mind!

Sourcing Tip 3) Search in the right places

Qualified candidates tend to receive hundreds of InMails from recruiters on LinkedIn in a week. Why take such a crowded path? Consider taking the road less traveled. Use other forms of social media, such as: Pinterest and Twitter. They may prove to be helpful tools in the talent search.
Pinterest is great for looking for creative talent. You can see a graphic designer’s and a web designer’s chops through their profiles or, at the very least, what inspires them. On the other hand, Twitter has a huge user base and an advanced search capability. With it, a perceptive recruiter can network and grow her candidate pool without breaking the bank.

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Pinterest Portfolio

Why not also take things offline? Attending in-person recruiting events or attending industry-specific conferences can prove to be resourceful. Expand your network breadth. Do not leave any hidden talent pools untouched. Use all possible means and resources!

Sourcing Tip 4) Rinse, Switch-up, Improve

The last bit of advice we would like to leave you with is not to let your searches bog you down and to not allow your searches to get stagnant. Create dynamic searches for each type of role, person, and company. If certain combinations of role, person, and company indicate that Linkedin is the place to go, then go there. If another combination points to Pinterest then look there. Sourcing needs to remain proactive and not passive. Most importantly, you have to understand what kind of candidates you are looking for and where those candidates are. Find what works best for you and always strive to make it better.
Happy Hunting!

 

 

Maximizing LinkedIn

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LinkedIn is the most popular professional network for connecting with colleagues, advertising yourself as a candidate, and sharing content applicable to your trade. With so many people joining LinkedIn daily, it’s important to differentiate yourself with a well-organized and informative profile. The best LinkedIn profiles effectively summarize the key aspects of a user’s career and are interesting to read without providing unnecessary details. As LinkedIn becomes increasingly more important in the professional world, here are some of the most important ways you can maximize your LinkedIn profile.

Personalization

While populating your account with pertinent career information should be your primary goal when editing your LinkedIn account, select personal details make all the difference in making yourself appear more personable and interesting. For example, adding a few personal interests in your summary can serve as an easy ice-breaker for new connections eager to learn more about you.

  • A background photo to replace the dull blue stock background that we all started with can inform viewers of your current city if you post a skyline or your favorite sports team if you choose an applicable background.
  • Many companies provide free headshots to staff specifically for LinkedIn, but even if that’s not your circumstance, a headshot is worth the investment to land your profile more attention.
  • Another key detail on LinkedIn is the personal URL. On your personal page under your picture, name, and education there should be a small bar that allows you to change your stock URL to something more personable for a business card or email signature.

It’s All About The Details

In your summary, you should give an overview of your professional career complete with what you do at your current position, career ambitions, any pertinent skills, and as mentioned previously a few personal details to liven up your profile.

  • For experience, you should summarize your current position and past positions with important accomplishments, an overview of tasks performed, and whenever possible a record of quantifiable achievements (ex. annual sales total). There’s even a section for volunteer activities, which can allow you to connect with other volunteers at organizations all over the world.
  • The Education section on LinkedIn is pertinent especially to college students or recent graduates but visitors to your account will certainly pay attention to important details like your Alma Mater, activities you took part in at school, pertinent courses you took, and your GPA.

Posting and Interacting

A personalized LinkedIn account isn’t complete without regular interactions with connections.

  • Posting regularly puts your profile at the forefront of your connections’ minds and allows you to show some of your personal interests. Liking and sharing connections’ posts also shows them that you’re interested in their content.
  • You can post articles associated with your industry or you could even post open positions from Reflik, if a connection applies to the position from your link and is hired, you’ll be sent the referral reward for the hire.
  • Endorsing a connection’s skills similarly demonstrates interest and encourages them to in turn endorse you for a skill.
  • Make sure to join groups that have to do with your interests or career on LinkedIn. Type a few key words into LinkedIn search to see what’s out there and check out what your colleagues or college friends belong to on LinkedIn. Groups are a great way to show off your interests as well as find valuable new connections.

Leveraging LinkedIn

After following some of our tips for maximizing your LinkedIn, you can get started making the most of your newly edited profiled! Here are a few ways you can leverage LinkedIn to your benefit.

  • With an edited profile it will be far easier for connections to find you online or recruiters to reach out to you with new job opportunities.
  • Export your LinkedIn information into resume format or at the very least utilize it as a resource when editing your resume.
  • Post open positions from Reflik on LinkedIn and earn money when candidates that use your links are hired!
  • Advertise your business or work by posting content on LinkedIn.

The Perks of Social Recruiting with Reflik!

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The recruiting industry is evolving at a rapid pace. While old ways of finding new employees  included job boards, professional association websites and internal employee referral programs, social recruiting is emerging as the most effective way to find new employees.  Unfortunately, many employers previously didn’t have the means to recruit through social media and thus don’t have the experience necessary to take advantage of this opportunity. In contrast, recruiters have been using social media sites like LinkedIn as a source of candidates for years but don’t have a central site to connect these candidates with applicable positions efficiently.

With technology continuing to change daily, so has the behavior of the job seeker.  Today’s candidates are much more tech savvy and use social media on a daily basis – often on smart phones or tablets.  As millennials increasingly make up a larger portion of the job market, it is essential that efforts are made by recruiters and employers to capture their interest where it is best held, social media. In order to reach those valuable candidates, you have to use social recruiting, which is made easy for employers and recruiters on Reflik.com.

Social Recruiting For Employers

With the tightening of recruiting budgets at many companies, employers need a reliable source of candidates without the hassle of hiring additional staff to perform new tasks. With Reflik.com they don’t have to allot a good deal of time learning how to use social media to find candidates.  Reflik helps manage the process for employers – saving both time and money!

Reflik is based on social recruiting through crowdsourcing.  We help employers find candidates by using the “crowd” – all those people on social media.  You sign-up and post your job for free with a referral reward that you decide on.  Then our “crowd”, which consists of independent recruiters and members find high-quality candidates for you.  You only pay the referral reward if a successful hire is made.  Social recruiting done the Reflik way is much more cost effective and efficient than recruiting the traditional way with job boards, costing hundreds of dollars for each listing, as well as each site and recruiting firms charging a large percentage of a year’s salary. In short, Reflik lets you be in control.

For Independent Recruiters

When you sign-up with Reflik as an independent recruiter, you have access to all of our hard-to-reach job listing without having to become an approved vendor. All you need to do is sign up! The process is simple; you find a great candidate through social recruiting or your own networking for the right position and you get the referral reward.  You aren’t at a disadvantage against big firms and we manage much of the process for you.

We can automate your communication through social media platforms and email – or you can do it yourself with a unique link that connects the job listing to your account.  Anyone who applies with that link is connected to you – you can track the process through Reflik.com and then when your candidate is hired, we distribute the payment for you. In fact, here are the top 6 reasons why independent recruiters love Reflik.

In today’s tough job market, with most of your target candidates spending a lot of their time on social media, social recruiting is the new trend that you can’t afford to miss.  Reflik makes it happen, right now.

Check out how Reflik can work for you by watching our “how it works” video.

Reflik is changing the recruiting game through the power of social media and crowdsourcing.  We know that the best source of candidates is through referrals.  Our referral-driven system uses a proprietary matching algorithm to match great jobs with great people.  It’s a win-win-win.  Employers win by getting the best candidates through referrals for less money.  Recruiters win by accessing more job listings using our automated system and through earning referral rewards. Members and job-seekers win by finding great jobs and getting real rewards.  Check out Reflik today to see how rewarding it is!

By Ashish Vachhani

Social Recruiting 101

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The job market is tough for everyone.  The economy is improving and companies are starting to hire again – but unemployment is down and there is stiff competition for qualified candidates.  Traditional recruiting is expensive and many companies are eager to find cost-effective alternatives to recruiting firms or job boards.   Those searching for alternatives that provide real results need to consider social recruiting. Social media use has grown exponentially and with  “millennials” coming on board, online social activity is everything.  It only makes sense that social media is the perfect place for companies to find great candidates to fill an increasing number of open positions.

Referrals are still the best source of new employees with a much higher rate of success than other methods, but most internal company referral programs don’t offer as much as a well-executed social-recruiting strategy.

Through social recruiting, you don’t have to wait for a candidate to find you, you can find them.  Social recruiting lets you identify those valuable passive candidates who are already employed but may be willing to relocate to another job if it’s a greater opportunity.   It’s like an online recruiting fair – with no gatekeepers. There are many other perks of social recruiting over conventional recruiting methods.

Reflik is the newest way for companies to find candidates through social media and since a lot of companies – and many recruiters – don’t understand how to effectively use social recruiting, Reflik takes a good deal of the work out of this complex process.

Reflik helps you by automating part of the social recruiting burden by making it easier to:

  • Use LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms to identify candidates
  • Contact and start direct interaction with those candidates
  • Increase your efficiency
  • Track the hiring process

Recruiting through social media can hasten the hiring process by providing you with those valuable referrals that fit your company better.  You can reach passive candidates more easily and source new employees in a different, more efficient and less expensive way.

Reflik helps you remove the geographic barriers that you may have in traditional job listings – like the “location” requirement that filters out your listing on many job boards due to the searcher’s current location.  We also automate the process, so that your contact and subsequent interaction is simple, transparent and tracked.

Most employers know that referrals are the best source of new employees.  Research has shown that since referrals are essentially “pre-screened,” they are often faster to hire, fit better with the company culture, and stay at the company longer.  Despite knowing that referrals are better, many companies have a hard time finding enough candidates because they rely on in-house referrals and the choices are limited.

Posting a job is free, using it to recruit new hires is free.  Employers only have to pay a referral fee if a successful hire is made.  Employers aren’t risking anything by using our service – and even when a successful match occurs, it is often much less expensive than most other methods of recruiting.

Check out how Reflik can work for you by watching our how it works video.

If you are ready – you can sign-up right now and start posting!

Reflik is changing the recruiting game through the power of social media and crowdsourcing.  We know that the best source of candidates is through referrals.  Our referral-driven system uses a proprietary matching algorithm to match great jobs with great people.  It’s a win-win-win.  Employers win by getting the best candidates through referrals for less money.  Recruiters win by accessing more job listings, using our automated system and through hiring rewards.  Members and job-seekers win by finding great jobs and getting real rewards.  Check out Reflik today to see how rewarding it is!

by Ash Geria