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In today’s hyper-competitive talent market, sourcing candidates is probably the most valuable recruiting skill for anyone concerned about hiring high-quality talent. Put simply, many of the best candidates don’t apply anymore. It’s on you and your team to get proactive, and go out and find them! With that in mind, we’ve put together the 10 most important best practices to help you identify and approach talent on any medium you choose and make sourcing candidates something you excel at. Please include attribution…

Boolean search basics Based on George Boole’s mathematical theory in which all variables are either ‘true’ or ‘false’, Boolean search on Google is one of the best sourcing tools for recruiters. The definition of Boolean search is that it’s a type of search that allows users to combine keywords with operators such as AND, NOT and OR to produce more relevant results. Here are the basic operators for Boolean search strings for recruiters: AND When you want to include two (or more) criteria…

What are your most effective sources for finding talent? Do you leverage job postings? Ask for employee referrals? These are both successful ways to fill a position. In fact, each one can play an integral role in your recruiting. The only downside is that they’re reactive. You have to wait for the talent to come to you, in hopes that the right candidate is among them. What you need is the ability to aggressively seek and go after ideal candidates. You need…

Here is a delightfully easy way to get an Excel spreadsheet from a search for Github users. (See an exclusive offer for Brainfood subscribers below). Install Chome Extension AutoPagerize. It will allow appending the 2nd, 3rd, etc. search results pages to the bottom of the current page, creating one long page that contains all the results (or as many as you wish). It works in Google search results as well as in Github search results. Search for the languages and locations…