CharlotteRecruiting

Learn How To Use Facebook To Recruit

The event is set.  May 21st, I'll be hosting a live webinar on Facebook recruiting through hireability. The session is called,

Facebook Recruiting:  A Live Demonstration of Hiring Inside Facebook by Jim Durbin, the Social Media Headhunter.

The explosion of Facebook as a social networking tool is challenge and a mystery to recruiters.  Unlike LinkedIn Plaxo, Facebook users aren't looking to be contacted in a search for jobs.  They certainly don't want to be headhunted, until they're ready.  Jim Durbin, a social media expert takes a look at Facebook from the eyes of an experienced staffing professional, and provides live, actionable training on how to use Facebook to increase placements.

In a session that combines sourcing, contacting, and referral generation, Mr. Durbin shows recruiters how to navigate the tricky waters of social networking.

The event is a paid webinar - the cost is $89, and it will be 1:30 p.m. EST/10:30 a.m. PST, and will cover sourcing, filtering, connecting, reference checking, and referrals in Facebook.  Most training sessions are full of theory - this webinar will be a walkthrough of screens and search terms on an actual job search.

There'll be Cross-promotion at socialmediaheadhunter and my other recruiting blogs StlRecruiting, Seattle, and KC Recruiting, as well as the social networks  and social media circles.  If you announce the event on your blog, be sure to send me an e-mail, and I'll link to you from this PR5 blog.

How To Make Money Using Facebook To Recruit

Well I've gone and done it.  May 21st, I'll be hosting a paid webinar on how to use Facebook to recruit.  None of this namby-pamby theoretical making friends nonsense.

We're digging deep and we're going to wring some value out of the time you've put into your funwall.

This is what is known as a teaser post. 

Recruiting Viral Video

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Meet Guy Kawasaki In Charlotte March 25th

Big Small Business Networking Event - pulled it from @shashib on Twitter.

Solutions Are Power with Guy Kawasaki.

Meet best-selling author and Entrepreneur Magazine columnist Guy Kawasaki at our next Small Business Networking Event to be held in your area.

Guy Kawasaki, small business experts from your area and Network Solutions will discuss how to make solutions work for you, and more importantly, for your bottom line.

Registration is free. Events are in Miami. FL (March 19th), Charlotte, NC (March 25th) & Orlando, FL ( April 9th)

Registration is Free - March 25th

Talent Drive: Remote Sourcing

I'd heading up to Chicago to meet with the TalentDrive Advisory Council.  It's a cool idea - sourcing taken up one level.

The basic product is you work with the TalentDrive team to give you a list of sourced names from people who have agreed to be contacted.   It's not full life cycle recruiting, but it doesn't cost the same as full-fee recruiter.

If you're in sales, marketing, or one of the other verticals they serve, it's a service you want to check out.

With more than 35 million resumes dispersed over 40,000 web-based locations, recruiters are spending more than 65% of their time searching the Web for quality resumes. TalentDrive provides a candidate sourcing solution that enables companies to leverage the Internet as a recruiting tool more efficiently and effectively.

TalentDrive is the first company with the capability to search more than 40,000 web-based locations – including niche job boards, local community websites, social networking sites, university websites, and more - as well as the only company to have experienced industry experts to provide objective, eyes-on review to evaluate and uncover quality resumes.

      

Charlotte Social Network

I just had the most wonderful idea for building a Charlotte Social Network for IT candidates using this site. More over at Social Media Headhunter.

Incidentally, you can follow me at twitter.com/smheadhunter.

Video: Crossbows and Moustaches

This has nothing to do with recruiting, unless you're considering staffing up your drug lord empire.

  Crossbows and Moustaches is a buddy cop parody that pits Bruce and Steve up against a crime lord touting a drug called Mutagen X.  The series has nine episodes, and they get progressively funnier. This is the first.** You can watch them from Flektor, or all nine can be found at MySpaceTV. *The content is adult, and may not be safe for some workplaces.

Yoh IT Looking For An Account Manager

YohIT is looking for an account manager in Charlotte.

I have the job description here:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
An Account Manager is a true hunter. The Account Manager is responsible for selling and developing staffing opportunities within an assigned territory, offering a full range of IT staffing services. The Account Manager is held accountable for personal production while contributing to the overall success of the business center.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & ABILITIES:
-1+ years of IT staffing experience
-Experience in prospecting, cold calling, and client presentations within a professional business- to-business sales organization
-Strong communication and organizational skills in order to maintain a level of activity which includes qualifying prospects, scheduling client meetings, pipelining qualified candidates, and generating revenue.
-Successful completion of background screening process

-A Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Management, Sales, or related fields.

Now, I used to work for Yoh, so let me give you the skinny.  The real information to know is that Yoh is a private company, not a public one.  They're big - 367 million but not too big.  If you can manage yourself, and know how to make money, it's the right company for you.  I don't know if it's still this way, but in general, in private companies, you have more leeway to work with clients.  As long as you know how to be profitable, and you can deliver, you can prosper here.

They tend to hire people who are mature and know the business.  The requirements say a year, but it should be a good year.  You won't have the restrictions of a public company, which has to worry about revenue and profit affecting stock price.  At the same time, some people do well in that kind of pressure environment.

Also - their non-compete is very fair.  When I signed it in 2001, it was a short paragraph that said don't steal their clients if you leave.  That's a big positive.  I don't know much Yoh has changed since 2003, and how it differs from the Charlotte market, but it's a decent company. 

To get sourced, contact Maria Kench  at Maria.Kench@yoh.com or  #603.685.3457 Office

The Future Of Recruiting Web Seminars

I have three webinars coming up in the next month.  The first will be February 19th at 12:00 CST for the Human Capital Institute. The topic I'll be covering is Talent Scouting and Social Networking: The New Employee Referral program.  To register for the 60 minute webinar, click on that link.   

The second event is the Recruiting Tour De Force,  March 6th and 7th, where I'll be presenting with Shally Steckerl and Margaret Graziano  We had a successsful event in San Antonio at the NAPS conference, and we're revisiting the event on the topic of What's Next For Recruiting.  Shally, Margaret and I cover the hot trends in recruiting from the standpoint of practioners.

No dull theory here.  We'll teach you how to make money and hire more people.  The cost of the event is $89.97, and you can sign up at either of the links below, or by sending me an RSVP to jdurbin@durbinmedia.com.

Shally has the event linked for the 6th here, and the 7th here. Margaret writes about it today on her KeenHire blog.

To help us out, link the post or make an annoucement on your own page.  I'll be happy to link back to anyone who advertises the events and sends me a note. 

Is It The Shoes or The Suit?

Preparation for an interview can be rough enough even if you're not a fashionista.  Business Dress Codes are diverse, ranging from business casual to, well, is anyone but lawyers and bankers wearing suits anymore?

One tip to remember is to ask what you are supposed to wear.  Recruiters usually prefer their candidates wear suits to an interview, even if the office is dressed down, because we know that a candidate in a suit is on their best behavior.

If you're not wearing a suit, you ought to consider at least springing for the nice shoes.  Our dress code for recruiting used to be, if you're not in a suit, at least wear "shiny shoes."  Shiny shoes was our code word for dress shoes with a solid sole.

I've thought about it for years, and finally realized it wasn't the clothes that made the difference, it was the shoes.  It is my contention that the kind of shoes we wear has a direct effect on the manner in which we compose ourselves in an interview, or in business in general.

Try this experiment:

Put on a suit, and instead of the wingtips, wear sneakers.

Now try on a pair of slacks and a polo short, but wear hard-soled shoes with a shine.

How does each make you feel.  Wearing the polo shirt and dress shoes, don't  you just feel like you're at work, or at least dressed up?  The suit and sneakers may make you look silly, so take off the shoes and go barefoot.  Aren't you missing something?

The difference is more obvious like this, but the truth is a good pair of shoes, laced up and shiny, puts you in a "business" frame of mind, while a pair of loafers, slip-ons, or,  really anything else encourages you to act casual.  I don't know the rules for women - but for a man, the right pair of shoes makes a difference in the way we carry ourselves.