When you're looking for a needle in a haystack - and what recruiter isn't? - use a magnet. The same goes for sourcing candidates and getting a quick primer on who they are and where they've worked. In this case, the magnet is an 8-year-old specialty search engine with the appropriately descriptive name ZoomInfo .

Scouring the Web for information on individuals and companies, ZoomInfo gathers it, indexes it, compiles it and presents it in a neat package. Like many search engines, the work is done entirely by computer. So it has limitations. Still, ZoomInfo makes it a snap for recruiters to develop candidate lists simply by entering their criteria.

But, says Tad Goltra , VP and GM of ZoomInfo's recruiting business unit, recruiters have found plenty of other ways of using what is rapidly becoming the largest business search engine in the world. "Recruiters are a big part of our business," says the former Monster exec.

Talking with ERE recently, Goltra shared these innovative uses and talked about plans for making ZoomInfo even more accessible to non-corporate recruiters.

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Jigsaw changed its slogan last month, eliminating mention of the business cards for which it became famous as a resource for recruiters.

Now, instead of saying "Buy and Trade Business Cards" the Jigsaw tagline is "Complete, Collaborative Business Information." The change reflects the evolution of Jigsaw, according to its co-founder and CEO Jim Fowler, who joined us in a podcast recently to tells us the company is broadening its reach.

In the 8-minute podcast, you'll hear Fowler tell us that recruiters are the most active networkers among the 400,000 members of its community; that sales people are the biggest users; and that Jigsaw is going beyond what is on the face of a business card to include data about the employee's company itself.

In the last several months, Jigsaw has rolled out new products specifically for companies. Jigsaw Team, introduced in September, is a corporate account shared among the participating employees. Jigsaw Clean is a service that cleans corporate CRM databases, discarding dated, departed and duplicate contacts and updating the ones still good.

It's also added rewards for updating business contact information.

But all this activity doesn't mean a change in focus for the company that declares its mission to be the mapping of every business on the planet.

Listen below to CEO Jim Fowler discuss where Jigsaw is today and what the future may bring.

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RSM McGladrey recruiter Ben Gotkin on why candidates should pick his firm over the biggies. He calls out the differentiators over the "Big 4" accounting firms and shares the secrets to attracting the best from the field.

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Two Kaiser executives discuss the unique technology challenges and the compelling reasons that candidates would choose a career at Kaiser. Specifically, the company prides itself on "meaningful" work and technology that impacts the way healthcare is being delivered in the United States.

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