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10 More Reasons Why You Should Consider the ‘Overqualified’

Editor’s note: This is the second of two posts offering 20 reasons why ‘overqualified’ candidates make good hires. This article first appeared as a single post on our sister site, ERE.net. Though aimed...

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Use the Job Boards to Get Referrals

Dear Barb: Our biggest client has told us that they don’t want us to use job boards to find candidates. They have in-house recruiters that were hired to screen resumes sent to their website postings...

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Americas Sourcers Not As Savvy As the Rest of the World

Despite inventing the job of sourcer, professionals in the U.S. are less technically skilled at it than their counterparts in the rest of the world. They are more reliant on paid LinkedIn accounts and...

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How To Write An InMail Subject Line That Gets Results

If you’re not getting the response you want from your InMails, the problem could be as simple as your subject line. With LinkedIn again tightening up the consequences for InMails that go ignored,...

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When Sourcing Nurses, the Phone Is Your Friend

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Projections 2012-2022 released in December 2013, registered nursing is listed among the top occupations in terms of job growth through 2022....

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What You Can Learn By Phoning That You’ll Never Know From LinkedIn

Nowadays, as technology does a lot of the sourcing (and to some extent, the recruiting), people are no longer on the phones much talking to people, exchanging information, bumping into and up against...

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Turning Around the Impossible Search

There is no such thing as an “easy fill” when it comes to recruiting. Every search will have its ups and downs, and it is our job as recruiters to overcome those challenges and provide results that...

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Puncturing the ‘Myths’ About Contingent Search

Last fall, on BountyJobs, we blogged about macro trends in third party recruiting. Since the end of the recession, fees spent on contingent search agencies have been steadily growing while retained...

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New LinkedIn Rule: Search for Free Until You Can’t

LinkedIn, the No. 1 social network used by recruiters and sourcers around the world, is changing the game; it has decided to give it all away for free. This is a direct quote from their website: As...

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Recruiting On Facebook Using Groups

By now, every recruiter interested in online sourcing is aware of Facebook Graph search; most are probably less aware Graph Search has now disappeared (take a look at this article from Tim Sackett for...

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