If you follow the Stafflink blog, you may notice that we often talk about something called “Boolean”, usually when we’re giving advice to other recruiters and related professionals in the HR or IT industry. As a job seeker you might skip over these posts, thinking that this isn’t for you. Today I’m going to show you why this Boolean logic…
When the Internet came of age, recruiters suddenly found themselves living in a much bigger world. But now we’re worried about it growing too fast. “Big data” is becoming a concern for many staffing agencies and HR departments. With the tools now available, searching for talent seems easier than ever, but the hard part is optimizing your search to find…
It’s that time again – Mobile Recruiting App Friday! This week I am very excited to tell you about a great mobile application that allows you to do real time search while you’re on the go. As recruiters, our time is extremely valuable. Every second we don’t spend sourcing is time that we can be missing out on great candidates….
Albert Einstein wasn’t very good at math. That could be read in two different ways. I don’t mean it in the same sense that I’m not very good at using the command-line interface in my Linux Mint operating system. What I’m saying is that as a physicist, Einstein wasn’t very good at what we call “pure” math, at least compared…
IT recruiter, Michelle De Rubeis, is the Boolean search expert of our office. If you want to know some of her secrets, you’re in luck. Michelle published an ebook with some of her best Boolean search tips for sourcing difficult-to-find IT talent. The response to this ebook has been extremely positive. We often get requests from people who are trying to track it down. The ebook is…
Posting a job is kind of like hitting a golf ball that hooks to the left and lands in the trees. In golf you can just switch balls. But IT recruiting is the real world. When you post a job that misses the mark you’ve got a whole lot of searching and sorting ahead of you. We call it “post…
Being in IT recruiting is a non-stop, time consuming career. It’s difficult to find the time to read up on what’s new in the recruiting world and get up to speed on new recruiting technologies. Here at Stafflink, we’ve done some of the work for you. We rounded up this resource page with links to some of the most valuable IT recruiting…
On Tuesdays we like to post tips to help recruiters mine the web for those difficult-to-find job candidates with niche and highly in-demand tech skills. If you’re a tech recruiter and you’re not using Google plus for recruiting IT talent, then you might want to add it to your repertoire. Google+ Surpasses LinkedIn in Users and Hits Google+ is a rapidly growing and relatively new…
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