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2017 Sourcing Challenge: The Answers

Social Talent

For the last three years, we’ve run a Sourcing Challenge to test your skills and flex your muscles, hunting around the web for totally random bits of information under a strict time constraint. Until you go and actually do a search for “Marketing Director” at Diageo in Australia and LinkedIn brings up nothing. What about now?

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How to source software developers from LinkedIn

Devskiller

Based on 2016-2017 Talent Shortage Survey , IT professionals constitute the second biggest talent shortage group globally and one of the hardest groups of professionals to recruit. LinkedIn is the go-to place for sourcing software developers for majority of recruiters , so it’s a very crowded and competitive space.

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7 Trends That Will Define Recruitment in 2017 (Infographic)

Social Talent

LinkedIn has released their annual Global Recruiting Trends 2017 report. The highlights of the report ( which is well worth reading in full ) are all contained in the infographic below including; the top roles you’ll be hiring for, the top sources of hire, as well as where most of your budget will go come next year.

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The Recruiting Trends The World Predicted Would Define Recruitment in 2017

Social Talent

Last year, we and every other recruitment blog on the planet wrote articles about what recruiters needed to know in order to be successful in 2017. These articles range some the frustratingly vague with tips like “try using the internet to source candidates” while others dug deep and provided some really valuable tips.

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Hard to Hire: Third-Party Recruiting & the State of Talent Acquisition Report

The talent acquisition challenges of today are unparalleled: 90% of survey respondents feel that the current hiring market is more challenging now than in the past! Recruiting as we’ve known it is evolving - how are you keeping ahead of the competition?

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The Education Confusion on LinkedIn

Boolean Strings

LinkedIn people search would work better if everyone had: one degree with the dates. For that reason, you will not be able to find exactly people who got, say, a Master’s in Computer Science within 2017-2021. However, searching for a graduation date in the future in LinkedIn Recruiter reliably finds current students.

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How to Source Google Code Jam Events

WizardSourcer

Gone are the days where recruiters only needed LinkedIn and some savvy research skills to find and hire top candidates. Here’s how to source and recruit from these events: What Is A Google Code Jam? How to Source Using Google Code Jams. Source Previous Competitions: 2019 List. Other Resources for Sourcing.

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