Data – do you really need it? We go through life collecting data. We can’t avoid it. Every day, more emails, more communications, more people.…

Data Privacy and Intelligence Following on from my previous blogs on Data Privacy, this week I’m looking at some of the work I have been…

POPIA Survey I have been creating blog articles recently about Data Privacy and the South Africa Legislation POPIA, which is coming into force later this…

POPIA with Vanessa Raath I’m delighted to be able to share a conversation I had with Vanessa Raath around POPIA. I’ve known Vanessa for very…

Data Privacy a hot topic. In my opinion, there are three very important reasons why everyone should be embracing Data Privacy. 1. Legislation Whether it…

Embracing Data Privacy This is the introduction to a series of blogs on embracing Data Privacy for Recruiters. Data Privacy is a hot topic. Social…

WordPress Security Following on from last weeks blog about website security (One easy fix to avoid being hacked), this week I’ve been talking to Jan…

One easy fix to avoid being hacked. Website security for recruiters. This week I happened to check out one of our customers’ websites, and was…

3 Clever ideas to build a better Recruitment Agency Wouldn’t it be great if you never had to cold call for new business? Wouldn’t it…

Shane McCusker of Intelligence Software talks to Roly Boardman of APSO about POPI, Privacy and Personal Information. Roly Boardman is the president of APSO and…

Attitudes to Data Privacy and Data Protection are changing for the better, and it is vital that businesses embrace these changes and lead the way…

Shane McCusker of Intelligence Software talks about Sourcing for Recruiters. In this video Shane shares ideas about how to search the internet to find candidates…

Live Stream from SourceCon South Africa Meetup 6th March 2019

In the run up to Savage Sell in July 2018, Chris Savage talks to Shane McCusker about how important storytelling is for recruiters now and…

Greg Savage talks to Shane McCusker about how Recruiters can sell their services to clients on an exclusive basis. This is becoming an essential skill…

Greg and Chris Savage talk about the Sales process for Recruiters. This is a webinar in advance of the Savage Sell masterclass in Johannesburg, Durban…

Bots seem to be yet another technology buzz word set to be the next big thing in the recruitment industry. It is often the case…

I was delighted to be asked to speak at the Evolve Summit in Brno in the Czech Republic. So I gave two presentations, Sourcing on…

St Valentines Day is around the corner. So with thanks to a suggestion from Andy Headworth of Sirona Consulting, I have upgraded my Facebook Search…

I’ve been working to upgrade my Facebook search tool and have added a number of new features. This video describes the new LinkedIn search tool…

It is a surprise to me that Sourcing with Facebook is not more common. It seems that most recruiters turn first to job boards or…

Earlier this year, I designed a tool to help recruiters search for people on Facebook. It has proven to be an extremely popular tool with…

This month’s free recruiter tool is an update of my Recruiter Bookmarklet previously called Shane’s Tools. This is a very handy tool that I personally…

Last month I developed a very clever search tool for LinkedIn and this month I’ve developed another one. Last month’s tool was inspired by work…

When searching LinkedIn, there are been two main methods used by recruiters – either searching directly through LinkedIn or using a search engine to x-ray…

Facebook Graph Search has changed significantly and this creates fantastic sourcing opportunities for Recruiters. As everyone knows Facebook is massive, much bigger than LinkedIn or…

Big Data has been talked about at length, but what is it and how can it help recruiters? Unfortunately, I fear that this is another…

I really do think more recruiters should be using Twitter for recruiting. It is such a powerful tool to find and engage with Candidates. Recruiters…

We all know that LinkedIn is one of the most popular sources of candidates for the recruitment industry. Unfortunately for many recruiters, their client has…

It is typically the case that a recruiter will find a good potential candidate on the internet but struggles to find any way of making…

Linkedin seem to be making changes to the Public Profiles. Premium profiles have just been released, however, it seems that for many profiles (free and…

Sharing content on LinkedIn can be a very effective platform to distribute information and engage with your audience. In this week’s article on Sourcing and…

This week’s video in my Sourcing and Social Recruitment for Beginners series is all about X-Ray Search. This is the common name for using the…

I’ve been getting very active on Twitter over the past few weeks and this seems to be working very well for me. As part of…

This is my second video in my beginner’s guide to sourcing and social recruitment. Today I’m talking about LinkedIn and how to make sure that…

I’m starting a series of short videos to help recruiters learn about internet sourcing. This is my first episode and it’s about Boolean search, what…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Yesterday I was speaking to a friend of mine, Marie O’Loan. Marie, along with her husband Aodh and a small number of others, run a…

This post was inspired by three free really cool LinkedIn tools for recruiters. After watching some videos by Jeremy Roberts on the Sourcecon site, I…

I’ve been trying to give a simple explanation of simple recruitment software. More often than not we hear requests for a super simple system that…

I wanted to do a short tutorial showing how Outwit Hub can be used to scrape data from the internet. Here, I am scraping my…

I was thinking about very simple ways to automatically post jobs from Intelligence through a recruitment web site and then to Twitter, LinkedIn, and all…

Following on from my last blog about LinkedIn skills pages, I found a fantastic tip from Jim Stroud on using Google Drive (formerly Google Docs)…

Linkedin has turned off their Skills pages, it will be sadly missed. Perhaps it’s true that you only appreciate something when it’s gone. The Skills…

This video is looking at sourcing techniques based on image searching. I’ve mentioned these techniques on other videos but I know it’s easy to miss…