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Social Recruiting

Free Recruiter Tools

I’ve had a great response to my free recruiter tool called Shane’s Tools! However, I know that there was a problem for some people who use Internet Explorer, and so I’ve split these in two. I’m reasonably sure these new versions will work across all browsers, but please let me

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Social Recruiting

Search for and Scrape Email Addresses

I regularly want to find email addresses for particular companies and so I’ve developed a free tool to help me do this and then extract them from any web page. Go to Shane’s Tools and drag and drop the button onto your bookmark bar in your browser. When you want

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how to build a big recruitment business
Social Recruiting

Building a Big Recruitment Agency

The vast majority of recruitment companies are very small businesses, many with fewer than five staff. I have spent much of my career in Intelligence Software looking for ways recruiters can be more successful and often I am drawn to looking at the barriers to growing a small agency into

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Social Recruiting

I’m on Boolean Strings

I’m delighted that my new LinkedIn Alerts tool is on the home page of the Boolean Strings site (www.booleanstrings.ning.com). So I’ve put together a short video to show it off. I’ve had lots of feedback since this tool went live a few weeks ago, and am planning a number or

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recruiters adapt or die
Social Recruiting

Recruiters will Die!

I was recently talking to Greg Savage about the changing world of recruitment and the premise that recruiters must Adapt or Die. Greg talked about dinosaur recruiters who cling to the methods of the past and proactively resist change. While I agree with this view, I see the successful recruiters

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Social Recruiting

LinkedIn Alerts

I’ve been working very hard to develop some new recruiter tools and I’m delighted to have finished my new Intelligence LinkedIn Alerts system which is available here. I wanted to develop a tool focused on business development for recruiters. My thought is that one of the main reasons that companies

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