That’s time for the fourth lesson. Today we’ll talk about sourcing and communication. That will be probably the biggest lesson of all. So, make yourself comfortable and let’s start.
Oh, it’s time for sourcing. We won’t teach you how to find candidates, but we’d like to share some tips and keywords.
Let’s talk about the main things that make recruitment in Russia different from recruitment in English speaking countries:
You can use boolean logic to find more relevant profiles on ANY SOURCE. This tool is unique due to its flexibility. If you are not willing to create queries yourself, try Recruitem (Social Talent, etc) or any other constructor of the boolean string.
I am sure, that you are already familiar with the x-ray & boolean logic. But now, in order to practice and expand your vocabulary, I will briefly tell you about the main operators for searching.
AND / OR / NOT operator must be written in capital letters (especially on Linkedin).
The ‘AND’ operator can be used when you want to include several criteria in your search.
Example: engineer AND developer
The ‘OR’ operator can be used when you want to search for a group of people that have some skills, titles, and locations, one of which is important to you. For example, you are looking for developers who know databases well. And use MongoDB OR PostgreSQL.
The ‘NOT’ operator is used to exclude some words from your search. As for me, that is the most important operator. You can also use -.
Example: UK -London
site: is perfect for those situations in which you want to restrict your search to a certain domain. Example: site:linkedin.com
inurl: find pages with a certain word (or words) in the URL. For this example, any results containing the word “github” in the URL will be returned. Example: inurl:github
parentheses () are great when you start to create more complex boolean strings. Use parentheses to group keywords into categories. For example, you are looking for a marketer who has experience with Sass products OR B2B:
(head of marketing OR chief marketing officer) AND (sass OR b2b)
quotation marks “” help you make the results more accurate: ****put your search term in quotation marks and the search engine will match that exact query.
Example: “QA engineer” — you’ll see just pages that include this exact phrase
asterisk * is used to broaden your search results when you know there are multiple variations of a root word. For example, you are looking for someone for the managing position. And you can simply type: manag and see all profiles that include manager, managing partner, management, etc.*
tilde ~ is a great operator to expand your search results when including criteria that may be described in multiple ways. *For example, ***you’re interested in resumes and don’t want to see any job descriptions in the search results. software developer ~resume ~CV -job -list
filetype: is used to search for specific filetypes. Example: filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc