Master Search with Recruiter Lite

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Daily Recruiter Workflow

There are four main things you can do with Recruiter Lite:

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Find Contact Organize Nurture

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Find Contact Organize Nurture

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Let’s drill into the first one – FINDING candidates

Searching strategically with Recruiter Lite

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Before you draft the job description and start sourcing candidates… run a strategic search.

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Before you draft the job description and start sourcing candidates… run a strategic search.

How?

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1. Put in your criteria (e.g. skills, years of experience, level, industry, location) 2. Run a search

•  What does a successful candidate look like?

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As you go through your search results, ask yourself questions like:

•  What does a successful candidate look like?

•  Should you consider anything else?

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As you go through your search results, ask yourself questions like:

•  What does a successful candidate look like?

•  Should you consider anything else?

•  Are you leaving talent on the table?

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As you go through your search results, ask yourself questions like:

•  What does a successful candidate look like?

•  Should you consider anything else?

•  Are you leaving talent on the table?

•  Are your expectations realistic?

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As you go through your search results, ask yourself questions like:

Imagine you need to hire a Marketing Manager

ü Lives in the Boston area

ü Has B2B experience

ü Familiar with SQL and Stata

You might run a search for:

Boston B2B marketer with SQL and Stata experience

But you’ll only get 5 results

What if you for expand your search outside the Boston area?

What if you for expand your search outside the Boston area?

Now, you’ll get 160 results

What if you for expand your search outside the Boston area?

Now, you’ll get 160 results

That’s 30x more candidates!

What if you expand your search to “adaptable hires” who have

experience, but not in SQL and Stata?

What if you expand your search to “adaptable hires” who have

experience, but not in SQL and Stata?

Now, you’ll get 630 results

What if you expand your search to “adaptable hires” who have

experience, but not in SQL and Stata?

Now, you’ll get 630 results

That’s 125x more candidates!

Strategic searches may reveal:

§  Required skills vs. “Nice-to-haves”

§  Insight into new roles

§  Patterns that indicate “adaptable hires”

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In fact, 37% of small to medium-sized businesses have considered “adaptable hires”

And 8 in 10 small businesses are glad they hired adaptable hires

Advanced Search Feature Tips

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Recruiter Lite has over 15 different search filters

And LinkedIn supports Boolean searches.

And LinkedIn supports Boolean searches.

What are those, you ask?

And LinkedIn supports Boolean searches.

What are those, you ask?

Let’s dive in.

Boolean searches support the following:

AND, OR, NOT, ( ), “”

Check this out for a more explanation on Boolean:

http://lnkd.in/boolean

Let’s imagine we’re planning the perfect vacation getaway

And we care about ocean views, nightlife, and great food

OCEAN VIEW

NIGHT-LIFE

GREAT FOOD

If we search “Ocean view” AND “Nightlife”

GREAT FOOD

OCEAN VIEW

NIGHT-LIFE

If we search “Ocean view” AND “Nightlife”

We’ll get results like Los Angeles and Miami, Where we can get both ocean views and nightlife.

If we search “Ocean view” NOT “Nightlife”

GREAT FOOD

OCEAN VIEW

NIGHT-LIFE

If we search “Ocean view” NOT “Nightlife”

We’ll get results like Big Sur, CA and the Oregon Coast where we can get ocean views but not nightlife.

If we search “Ocean view” OR “Nightlife”

GREAT FOOD

OCEAN VIEW

NIGHT-LIFE

If we search “Ocean view” OR “Nightlife”

We’ll get results like Las Vegas and the Oregon Coast where we can get either ocean views or nightlife.

If we search “Ocean View” AND (“Nightlife” OR “Great Food)

GREAT FOOD

OCEAN VIEW

NIGHT-LIFE

If we search “Ocean View” AND (“Nightlife” OR “Great Food)

We’ll get results like Nice and Miami where we can get either nightlife or great good,

and definitely ocean views.

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Remember to save your important searches!

So you receive alerts when new candidates appear

Delivered to your inbox

All new profiles that match your

criteria

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And access your saved searches and history anytime

Helpful Resources

Industry Talent Pool Reports

ü Architectural design ü Brand strategy ü Corporate finance ü Corporate law ü Ecology & environment ü Java development ü Non-profit fundraising ü Many more!

http://lnkd.in/talent-reports

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Conduct a search using advanced facets or Booleans Save that search to get automatic updates Join the Hiring with LinkedIn Recruiter Lite group at http://lnkd.in/RLite_group

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