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Where I Found My Last Hire: Sourcing Advice from The RightThing Recruitment Specialists

With today’s unemployment rate at 9.1%, the ease of applying for positions has many left companies processing a high-volume of unqualified candidates. Instead of posting to job boards and opening up the floodgates to an influx of applicants, some companies are utilizing unique recruiting techniques to seek and find qualified candidates. However, with more recruiting channels than ever before, knowing where to begin can quickly become overwhelming. As a recruitment process outsourcing firm, The RightThing helps find, recruit, hire and retain critical talent and is also parent company to AIRS, a leader in recruiter training and sourcing technology. With fully dedicated resources committed to understanding and utilizing the most current sourcing strategies, The RightThing offers a unique perspective on today’s hottest sourcing strategies.

(PRWEB) June 30, 2009 -- With today’s unemployment rate at 9.1%, the ease of applying for positions has many left companies processing a high-volume of unqualified candidates. Instead of posting to job boards and opening up the floodgates to an influx of applicants, some companies are utilizing unique recruiting techniques to seek and find qualified candidates. However, with more recruiting channels than ever before, knowing where to begin can quickly become overwhelming. As a recruitment process outsourcing firm, The RightThing helps find, recruit, hire and retain critical talent and is also parent company to AIRS, a leader in recruiter training and sourcing technology. With fully dedicated resources committed to understanding and utilizing the most current sourcing strategies, The RightThing offers a unique perspective on today’s hottest sourcing strategies.

Here, our industry sourcing specialists and recruiters weigh in:

Industry: Retail
Position: Sales Associate
Source: Microblog –Leveraged Tweets on Twitter by creating a message regarding the openings, #job and other frequently used #hashtags along with a TinyURL to redirect people back to the posting to apply. People who ran searches for these types of jobs, now follow me in preparation for my next real-time job Tweet.

Industry: Pharmaceutical
Position: VP of Clinical Operations
Source: LinkedIn – Utilized Boolean logic to identify high level candidates within clinical operations experience. Specifically, I went to google.com and typed the following in the search field:
linkedin.com (director OR manager OR “vice president” OR vp) “clinical operations” –inurl:directory.
Utilizing this string I was able to connect with a candidate who was hired by my client.

Industry: Insurance
Position: Underwriter
Source: Custom search engine – Targeted competitors, schools and associations by creating a Google Custom Search Engine focusing on all these sites. As more were found, they were added to the engine. In short I was able to create a customized Underwriter search engine. I’ve been able to leverage this approach to quickly search all relevant web sites for Underwriters and find a high quality match for my client.

Industry: Engineering
Position: Engineer
Source: Leveraged the committee member names found on an IEEE Working Group that matched search criteria. Since these people are the gurus in their field, PeerSearching on these few names resulted in finding dozens of similar candidates I was able to contact in minutes. Since I found these peers on documents like white papers, I was able to reference these projects when making first contact which helped build instant rapport and ultimately find the perfect fit.

Industry: Manufacturing
Position: Environmental Specialist
Source: Deep Web mining and Spoke–Spent time deep Web mining key associations that related to position expertise including: www.awma.org, www.cwea.org and www.ceha.org. Once individuals were found on these sites, I used the social networking site Spoke to connect with the potential candidates which enabled me to find the right hire for my client.

About The RightThing
The RightThing is the number one recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider. Harnessing the power of proprietary technology, The RightThing leads the industry with innovative, scalable solutions that help clients find, recruit, hire and retain top talent. The RightThing is also parent company to AIRS, the leading provider of recruitment training. Visit us at http://www.rightthinginc.com.

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