Table of Contents - Self-paced Online Version
Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques course

To avoid travel and higher live seminar costs, you can purchase the entire course on its own in a self-paced online format. In fact, it's our most popular format, with even more resources than anyone could pack into a day-long (or even multiday) seminar! It's accessible 24x7 from home or work, and only requires a standard Web browser. Learn more or register now.

If you have a login: Click any link below to go directly to that part of the course (section numbers correspond to the tabbed sections in the course binder notebook), or use the black-and-white arrows at the bottom to scroll through page-by-page (left-pointing arrow at bottom left corner on any page takes you to previous page; right-pointing arrow at bottom right corner takes you to next page).

Introduction - Goals and Value of This Course

Section 1 - Sourcing & Competitive Intelligence

Planning Your Sourcing

Using CI resources to help sourcing

Applied examples using advanced search, etc.

Lookups

Section 2 - Forums, Groups & Lists

Newsgroups, Listservs, User Groups and Forums within Virtual Communities

How to datamine them for resumes and people

Section 3 - Advanced Search & Networking

Boolean techniques on search engines to datamine for resumes, names and profiles

Deep Web search

Patent search

How to find and use keyword synonyms (including our own special synonym string generator Excel template!)

Blog (weblogs) search

Local Google

International search

FTP Gopher IRC search

Bookmarklets (if you're not using these, you're shooting yourself in the foot re: productivity big-time!)

CI Out of the Box

Email methodologies

Building your candidate and peer networks

Section 4 - Employment Web Sites

Types of career portal sites and how to evaluate them

Writing job titles and descriptions for the Internet that get results

Free job posting & resume database sites (also see Appendix)

Virtual communities: how to datamine them for resumes and people

Web rings: how to use them

Tools: Broadcast job posting, Spiders/Robots, Meta resume search

Section 5 - Phone Sourcing

Communication Styles

Scripts & Role Playing

Voice mail methodologies

Direct contact methodologies

Section 6 - Designing/Revising Your Company Web Site's Recruitment Section

Statistics

Six-step process

Examples of good sites

Section 7 - Managing the Applicant Process

Applicant tracking and assessment systems

Recruitment advertising agencies

Videoconferencing systems (for remote candidate interviewing, etc.)

Tips to Streamline the Online Recruiting Process & Future Trends

Section 8 - Appendix (the big one!)

Dozens of resource lists for recruiters/sourcers (social networking portals, college recruiting, recruiter networks, books, industry associations, certifications, user groups, etc.) - some of these lists are publicly viewable

Tools of the Trade: select third-party sourcing and productivity tools (e.g., reverse lookups, mass email, desktop search, bookmarklets, etc.)

Candidate sources by industry (pharma, finance, ex-military, construction, etc.), function/level niches (diversity, executive, MBA, project management, etc.) and location (Canada, UK, etc.)

Maximizing the value of autoresponders through customization

Developing email newsletters to maintain widespread candidate contact

...and much more! (selected items printed in course binder, but you can view the Appendix table of contents)