Comments on: Sourcing in the Sweet Spot http://www.ere.net/2005/10/14/sourcing-in-the-sweet-spot/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeremy Langhans http://www.ere.net/2005/10/14/sourcing-in-the-sweet-spot/comment-page-1/#comment-1263 Jeremy Langhans Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:50:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2005/10/14/sourcing-in-the-sweet-spot/#comment-1263 GREAT STUFF LOU !!! Enjoyed the article & your class this AM :-) jeremy @ jeremylanghans.com GREAT STUFF LOU !!!

Enjoyed the article & your class this AM :-)

jeremy @ jeremylanghans.com

]]> By: Merle Tenney http://www.ere.net/2005/10/14/sourcing-in-the-sweet-spot/comment-page-1/#comment-1262 Merle Tenney Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:23:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2005/10/14/sourcing-in-the-sweet-spot/#comment-1262 Great article, Lou. I have to tell you that I jump on to ERE every time I see one of your articles, because I know I won't be disappointed. I have a question on the Online Tools section of this article, and it is for Lou or anyone who has an idea here. You mention ZoomInfo and LinkedIn. I totally get how you can find good people on LinkedIn. ZoomInfo is another matter. I understand that the reach in a company is greater, because ZoomInfo mines the net for people and their contact information. This is very cool for making contact. But how useful is it in finding new people with a targeted skill set? The only job-related information that is returned, unless I am missing something, is the job title. Is this enough? Is Engineering Manager or Product Manager going to tell you enough about the person for effective name sourcing? Let me throw Ziggs into the mix as well. Lou, you didn't mention Ziggs as a resource. Why is that? Like ZoomInfo, Ziggs mines 99% of its information from the web, but it targets different information. It targets bios from company web pages listing key players, such as board members and senior management. The biggest ding here is that it doesn't also provide information about the rank and file, which is where most of the jobs are. But the bios usually have great information that can be searched. Is the fact that Ziggs is biased toward executives the reason that it doesn't get mentioned more often by recruiters? Finally, let me throw out a product idea to whoever wants to pick it up and run with it. ZoomInfo scours the web and accumulates names, titles, and contact info for everybody it finds. Ziggs scours the web and accumulates all the professional bios it can find in one place. I have seen ace data miners here and in other forums suggest great search strings to use ('resume' in title, 'resume' in url, but not 'submit' on page, etc.) and little known directories for different industries where you can search for profiles or resumes. Why doesn't some enterprising website build a product that goes out and aggregates all of these in one place? Or is somebody doing this, and I just don't know about it? You guys are the pros. Please enlighten me. Merle Tenney merletenney@yahoo.com https://www.linkedin.com/e/fpf/534076 http://www.ziggs.com/reg/member/Bio.aspx?uid=10040 Great article, Lou. I have to tell you that I jump on to ERE every time I see one of your articles, because I know I won’t be disappointed.

I have a question on the Online Tools section of this article, and it is for Lou or anyone who has an idea here. You mention ZoomInfo and LinkedIn. I totally get how you can find good people on LinkedIn. ZoomInfo is another matter. I understand that the reach in a company is greater, because ZoomInfo mines the net for people and their contact information. This is very cool for making contact. But how useful is it in finding new people with a targeted skill set? The only job-related information that is returned, unless I am missing something, is the job title. Is this enough? Is Engineering Manager or Product Manager going to tell you enough about the person for effective name sourcing?

Let me throw Ziggs into the mix as well. Lou, you didn’t mention Ziggs as a resource. Why is that? Like ZoomInfo, Ziggs mines 99% of its information from the web, but it targets different information. It targets bios from company web pages listing key players, such as board members and senior management. The biggest ding here is that it doesn’t also provide information about the rank and file, which is where most of the jobs are. But the bios usually have great information that can be searched. Is the fact that Ziggs is biased toward executives the reason that it doesn’t get mentioned more often by recruiters?

Finally, let me throw out a product idea to whoever wants to pick it up and run with it. ZoomInfo scours the web and accumulates names, titles, and contact info for everybody it finds. Ziggs scours the web and accumulates all the professional bios it can find in one place. I have seen ace data miners here and in other forums suggest great search strings to use (‘resume’ in title, ‘resume’ in url, but not ‘submit’ on page, etc.) and little known directories for different industries where you can search for profiles or resumes. Why doesn’t some enterprising website build a product that goes out and aggregates all of these in one place? Or is somebody doing this, and I just don’t know about it?

You guys are the pros. Please enlighten me.

Merle Tenney
merletenney@yahoo.com
https://www.linkedin.com/e/fpf/534076
http://www.ziggs.com/reg/member/Bio.aspx?uid=10040

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