This course is is purely devoted to searching for and addressing candidates via LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media and online platforms. No presentations, no slides, no exhaustive theory - just hands-on practice in searching and addressing candidates.

Searching for and targeting candidates for your position

• Selecting the most effective search method for the given position.

• Finding the maximum number of candidates using various search models iterative, semantic, implicit, language based, etc.

• Practicing the Boolean operator.

• Process descriptions that can uncover other sites on LinkedIn, Facebook and other online resources with potential candidates.

• Fully understanding shortlist specification criteria, so no relevant candidates are disregarded.

• Streamlining the search operation to save time.

• Search automation.

• Working with various search engines (X-ray search).

• Candidate search outside of LinkedIn on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or more specialized platforms such as GitHub, Stack Overflow, and so on.

• Installing and becoming familiar with plugins and tools designed to help your sourcing flow.

Contacting the candidate

• Technical training of all the possible ways of contacting.

• Writing a message based on the user profile.

• Obtaining the email and other contact information of the candidate.

• A recapitulation of services and plugins used effectively contact the candidate.

Goals of the course

• Transforming knowledge from theory to practice.

• Using social media to recruit for real positions.

• Increasing the number of relevant candidates for your positions.

• Improving search techniques and methods used to uncover hidden resources containing relevant candidates.

• Improving your chances of success in filling hard-to-fill positions by effectively addressing candidates.