Social Networking Beyond Linked In For Ere

Social Networking
Beyond LinkedIn
How to pursue the other big
passive prospect pools

Presented by Glenn Gutmacher
(glenn@jobmachine.net)
VP, JobMachine.net / Arbita Education & Consulting
Services (ACES)

Overview

• Great tools for searching people, but don‟t use them just for that
• Employer brand and trust building benefits can be significant
• Provides additional detail on prospective candidates
• Not for active or volume recruiting
• Companies actively recruiting this way are in different industries, but
skewing to finance, high tech and retail
• John Sullivan‟s recent webinar on this topic reported best practices
from Dell and Zappos
• Get your employees involved with socnets and help them (e.g.,
provide good company-related content; train on best first approaches,
which is *not* a job pitch, etc.)
• Alumni social networks (e.g., use a vendor like AffiliateCircles or
create yourself within Facebook)

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Facebook

• 100 MM+ users, mostly social, some business
• About 50% “out of college”
• Regular search: http://www.facebook.com/srch.php lets you find
classmates by any university name or coworkers by any company
name (goes beyond your joined networks)
• The profile search has the most field criteria choices (interests,
location, etc.), but only searches within your network
• Friend finder lets you upload an address book or IM list file, or search
by a name or email across all of Facebook
• Join regional networks to find local prospects
– http://www.facebook.com/networks/networks.php?view=geographi
es
• Search for former employee and alumni groups
– http://www.facebook.com/s.php?&ref=search
– Or site:www.facebook.com pitney.bowes

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Facebook is Web 2.0 Marketing

• #1 site for people ages 17-25, 50% of them visit daily
• 25-35 yr olds are fastest growing audience
• LinkedIn‟s “My company is hiring”
– http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2415694143&b&ref=pd
• Create a company Facebook page
• Create a user poll
• Contextual advertising:
– Social Ads seen by users who visit your Facebook page or website site
– Contextual impression or per-click ads targeted in various ways
– Metrics are included
• Free Marketplace job postings
• Post career fairs/other events, targeted by network or to all, and by type
• Look at job- and career-related applications developed by companies for
Facebook (auto-sorted by popularity). You might get ideas for your own!

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Facebook is Web 2.0 Marketing

• Use it on your wireless devices (e.g., Facebook
for Blackberry app, or Facebook‟s own mobile
app.
• Go to the main mobile section within Facebook
which shows how to upload content from your
mobile device to Facebook, receive content from
others on your mobile, or just browse Facebook
from a mobile-friendly browser interface.
• Twitter can be run through your Facebook page,
too
• You can find friends‟ mobile and other posted
phone numbers under Phonebook tab
• Focus your incoming content feeds on things of
interest to recruiters (more about groups, and
more about profiles)
• Similarly, you can control what friends see about
you


MySpace

• 200 MM+ users, all social, not much business
• Search MySpace from Google with the site: command
– site:www.myspace.com (occupation.*.CPA OR major.*.accounting)
• Limit geography with intitle: for city or state
– For example add intitle:virginia or intitle:atlanta to the site: search, or
use the previous example with multiple nearby city names:
– site:www.myspace.com (occupation.*.CPA OR major.*.accounting)
(intitle:jacksonville OR intitle:orlando)
• Filter for specific universities
– For example: university.of.houston
• Diversity inclusion search:
– site:www.myspace.com ethnicity.*.asian (or latino, black, etc.)
• Contact by sending a message via MySpace


MySpace

• Post MySpace Classified job ads
• View job-related apps by recent or overall popularity; can find other
apps by keyword
• Create your own MySpace page free (prompted to do this when you
create your account)
• Friend Updates: your friends can be updated when you join a group,
post or reply in a forum, add a video, install an app, get tagged in a
photo, create new friend categories, become friends with a band,
filmmaker, comedian or brand, etc.
• Blogging is possible, but the blog groups are too scattered to be
worthwhile.


Twitter

• Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service to send
text-based posts, up to 140 characters long (“tweets”) to the Twitter
website, mobile devices, etc., via short message service [SMS],
instant messaging (IM), or a third-party app. You can find candidates,
useful tools, resource sites, etc. See blogpost by Jason Buss for
Twitter benefits

• Create a free account at Twitter. Include a laundry list of appropriate
keywords in your profile that people would search on.

• In the quot;What are you doing?quot; box, use links to URLs if it‟s not short.
Use TinyURL.com or an equivalent tool. By default, that is a public
tweet anyone could potentially find.

• In the right-hand column of Twitter‟s homepage, you can see your
numbers.


Twitter

• Click Find People atop Twitter homepage, you can type a skill term
or job title (not just names), and maybe narrow by location, e.g.,
quot;software engineerquot; quot;new yorkquot; or J2ME Boston, but it's best to use
Twitter's Advanced Search to target your criteria. In the results, you
can click the Follow button beside any person to follow that user if
not protected status.

• Another way to find relevant people on Twitter is Twitter Tracking.
You can type keywords of interest (e.g., a unique business or
technology term/phrase) and whenever someone types that in an
update (across the entire Twitter network, not just who you're
following), you will get a message.

• TwitHire is a free job posting site for Twitter.


Twitter

Great examples of how to search Twitter from posts about Summize (now
Twitter advanced search) by Shally Steckerl and Jim Stroud that go
beyond simple keyword/phrase searches:
• geographic search: you can combine keywords with a person's cited
location - e.g. (note use of boolean) near:Boston sql
• type a conference name to find people talking about that conference
(who are likely attendees or panelists)
• type the phrase “I work for” followed by the name of a company (e.g.,
this has some posts from Microsoft employees).
• Among the comments to Jim's post was a great tip from recruiter
Michael Specht: “Most tech conferences [and] on Twitter folks have
begun using hashtags [# plus keyword] to indicate the discussion going
on at the conference. So search for #ConferenceTag and you get all of
the [conference] gossip.” (e.g., #pubcamp).
Here‟s a great source of popular hashtags.


Twitter

• You can tweet from your mobile phone, IM device or a third-party
application. You can receive an RSS feed of tweets to any RSS
reader (which includes Microsoft Outlook 2007) – see instructions.

• You can limit the number of Tweets you receive, also.

• This annotated list of ten Twitter tools includes several related to
enhanced search as well as productivity. Many other categorized
Twitter resources here.

• The Downloads page, linked at the bottom of the Twitter homepage,
has links to these kinds of tools to use Twitter outside the website, as
well as the Twitter Fan Wiki.

• Comprehensive lists of Twitter commands here and here


Jigsaw
Use the Advanced Search:
Business card search system that • Title: Tax Manager
provides: • Company Name: Deloitte
• Name • Level: Director and Manager
• Full Title
• Business email Now try:
• Direct number (most cases) • Department: Sales
• Business address • Metro Area: Miami
• Points-based, self-correcting • Industry: Electronics
system
• Get free JigSaw PLAY account
Try the company search, too (all
+ 100 extra points via Shally:
downloadable, free results)
www.jigsaw.com/partners/jobma
chine/
• Or pay $1 per contact
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Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/
• insubject:resume
– Displays news group messages with posted
resumes
• Group: CCNA
– Displays news group messages from a specific
group
• author:@us.ibm.com
– Displays news group messages from one particular
author at that specific company


Yahoo Groups

• Find a group by topic - http://groups.yahoo.com
• Like both a Usenet and Mailing list in the sense that everyone receives
updated postings if they choose
• View Database, Members, and Files
• Potential access to either members‟ index and/or database, in addition
to revealing docs, spreadsheets
• Members‟ websites – if lucky, you may find links to member‟s blog or
homepage and review further for background and contact info
• Often identifies Member‟s IM, when you see them „online‟ IM, you can
ping them and solicit. For difficult positions, can be valuable.
• Subscribe to receive emails and “lurk”


Mailing Lists

• You can search by interest keywords to find lists
specializing in your candidates industries at:
– http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
– http://www.freelists.org/
• Example: type compiler and find posts from the Haiku
Development list, go to top level of archive and you see
original list where to subscribe.
• Searching for the words “mailing list archive” along with
some skill specific terms may reveal mailing list archives
online.
• Try: +to: +from: +date: +subject:


Plaxo Pulse

http://pulse.plaxo.com

• Auto-synchronizes changes in other people‟s contact
info with your address book (Outlook, etc.)
• Maximum of 10,000 contacts can be synched (see limits)
• Aggregates all your online presences into one location
• Plaxo emails your contacts with updates
• Place your badge on a blog, website, etc.
– see http://jobmachine.net/blog/shally


SocNet Aggregators

• Pipl.com
– Real-time search of deep web (databases like JigSaw, Zoominfo)
– Includes social networks, blogs, and websites
– Plus white pages listings, hoovers, LexisNexis,
• Spock.com
– LinkedIn, Yahoo, Plaxo, MySpace and the blogs
• Wink.com
– LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Zoominfo
• Ziki.com
– aggregates your online presence
– see www.ziki.com/en/people/shally
• Spokeo.com
– The “mirror image” of Ziki.com it lets you aggregate all your friends sites
into one location so you can stay up to date with all their “goings on.”


Blog Searching

What and who will I find on blogs?

• Part online diary, part industry commentary, and a lot of
ego makes for revealing content.
• Though often more subjective than factual, still very
useful for recruiting research (sourcing) purposes
• Bloggers are representative of all job levels, industries,
geographies and backgrounds
• From a professional perspective, they comment on what
they do, what others are doing, name those people,
as well as tools, products, trends, etc.


Blog Searching

Target major search engines to blog search:

• Google: add (inurl:~blog OR intitle:~blog) to your
string as a rough way to limit results to blog pages,
or use Google Blogsearch for something more
targeted
• Live.com (formerly MSN): type hasfeed:
immediately in front of your first keyword
• Add the site: command to your string to target a
domain known for hosting many blogs (e.g.,
site:myspace.com)


Blog Searching

Use niche search tools that just search blogs:
• Technorati.com
• IceRocket.com
• Blogsearch.google.com
• Industry-specific blog search is also growing (e.g.,
Blawgsearch.com across Legal blogs)
• MyBlogLog – Yahoo service that lets you share messages
with your network and see what they‟re discussing


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