A new cv/resume search engine

Here is a beta website called CVfox that could help you find not only online bios on linkedin, but online resumes too.

CVfox was created by Donatello Tomasso. I believe he recently launched this beta a month ago for the public & professional recruiters.

CVfox does three types of searches - body search, title search, and x-ray search. It first defaults to doing an x-ray search first for bios/resumes. So you can or may even refine your search by then clicking body or title by hitting the refinement tabs after you’ve run your initial search.

Try it out and see if you like it.

Pick up something new in sourcing

A friend, Searchologist, trainer, blogger, and all-around nice guy Jim Stroud has something free to give away to all fellow HR staffing professionals. Check it out and pick up something new to help you find passive talent out there on the web!

Per his words…

With my new book – Resume Forensics, you will learn:

* How to search Google for free resumes
* How to search Yahoo for free resumes
* How to search Live for free resumes
* How to find additional keywords for your resume searches
* How to create search strings that work on Google, Yahoo and Live
* How to take a job description and create multiple search strings from it. (As an example, I take one job description and create 56 pages of search strings from it.)
* How to automate your resume searches so you can (literally) source resumes while you sleep.

If you would like to get a free copy of it, go to this link below for details: http://tinyurl.com/5qwguj

(It will redirect to you my blog where you will find more instructions.)

Hanging out in San Diego at ERE!

Hello Everyone! I’m traveling again! Yesterday I met up with the Great Glenn Gutmacher, Russ Moon, Tim O’Connor, and Shally Steckerl. We have a pre-conference sourcing session we will be presenting to the crowd at this ERE Expo here in beautiful San Diego.

This is my first ERE event and I am pumped up, super excited to hang out, network and meet lots of new HR/recruiting professionals. Hope to see you there!

Just a Quick Note!

Hello Everyone! Just a quick note that my linkedin inmail box has almost 400 messages (invites, messages, etc) - I’m still trying to play catch up!!! Also, I still am about 2 weeks behind within my own personal yahoo email account!!!! Oh my gosh! PLEASE, if you have an important message I haven’t gotten to yet (which I know most I haven’t touched or seen) or need to reach me more immediately please email me to my work email at danh@netapp.com - I will respond within 24 hours or call me. Look at my visualcv resume for my personal cell# (a few posts ago)
Ok, on to sourcing tool today I’m looking at: Searchme is a website that allows you to visually see and preview webpages on a particular search or in categories. You can type in a person’s name for example and see maybe their webpage, to comments on sites they made, to other pages where they are maybe quoted or found. While its still trying to index the billions of pages on the internet, I find this tool visually interesting. (A quick note that this website is currently still in beta and will require you to register and ask for an invite)

Sunday night and still trying to go through all my emails. Let’s MeetUp instead!

Hello All!

It is Sunday evening and I’ve been trying to play catch-up on my yahoo personal email account this weekend. I never realized how traveling, work, events, to just things happening in life can let all the emails build up pretty quickly when you don’t check it and clean through them instantly. I have tons of email I’m still trying to sort through, mainly a lot of spam…so if any of my readers can suggest a great spam filtering tool I would appreciate it.

Ok, so I created this blog to share about sourcing and not about spam. So here is the website that may help some bay area recruiters find passive talent within associations and groups. Meetup is another popular website to utilize and find passive talent through common interests. Try typing in a particular skill set and see what local meetup group you might connect and network with. I personally love hitting up groups to associations that yield me the best passive talent or point me in the right direction.

Been out of Town

Hello all! I wanted to let everyone know I’ve been out of town and noticed I have a lot of linkedin invites pending. Please be patient and I will respond to each email and message soon.

Speaking of heading out of town…I will be at the HR Recruiting Roadshow in Las Vegas this Wednesday! Hope to see some of you there!

A New Way to Look at Resumes

The web just keeps getting better and more interactive with us in technology. Here is a site I think is an extremely cool idea that can really take off for both professionals and companies looking to hire the right talent.Visualcv may replace the traditional way we all view resumes. With Visualcv you can create an online career portfolio/bio that can be really engaging with the recruiters or sourcers at companies screening for your talent and experience. Sometimes our resumes on paper don’t accurately reflect enough of us and who we are. With Visualcv you can create that online presence that may show a little more personality and passion of who you are and what you’ve accomplished or will. I think this is a great idea created by the founders Phillip Merrick and Clint Heiden.

I had the great fortune & opportunity to chat briefly a few times with Phillip Merrick this Friday before the launch on Monday. Phillip was the Chairman & CEO of Webmethods. He communicated to me that he saw a need and envisioned a site that really interacts and shows your resume off to prospective companies, utilizing the web versus a standard traditional resume which most/all recruiters view on a daily basis.

I could see this Visualcv being a particularly useful site to companies and recruiters alike because it could save time for really screening and seeing personality/accomplishments of an individual. From the high level management positions down to a customer service representative this site could save interview time and more. I believe this site can greatly help individuals, as well as companies, make the right cultural to hiring talent decisions.

Here is a quick look at my resume.

A tool I use to find people, zip codes, area codes and more

Here is a tool I love to use to help me find people, zip codes, area codes and more.

www.melissadata.com

Click on the LookUps.

This website quickly allows me to access lots of different information. In particular, I use this tool to sometimes help me find people, zip codes and area codes; along with some of it other amazing features. Go to the lookup tab to find all these features I’ve mentioned.

This is a free people search; free people finder to zip code or zip codes lookup (besides zipmath; which I also like sometimes). Just type in the name of a place for example under the zip/city/phone link and see the zip and area code(s).

Happy Friday and Wishing Everyone a Great Weekend!

Gun Hay Fat Choy! to all my Chinese friends/families I know!

-Dan

LinkedIn and Emails

Hello Everyone! I am inundated with so many emails and linkedin requests from being featured on SixDegreesFromDave

Please be patient as I go through my emails.  I truly am appreciative of all the good will comments and support, not to mention attention (wow!) I’ve been receiving!

LinkedIn and Emails seem to be a daily part of most, if not all recruiters/sourcers lives. Reading and responding is also important in our relationships. I just want to acknowledge everyone that has been emailing me. I do have a lot of personal emails I still need to answer and ask for just a little patience as I’m going through my personal email account!

All The Best!

-Dan

I’m featured on SixDegreesFromDave

Hello Readers!

I am featured on Dave Mendoza award winning Overall HR Blog of the Year - sixdegreesfromdave

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