Seventeen connected chapters

Seventeen chapters. One connected recruiting practice.

The contents move from search logic and public-source research to outreach, candidate experience, interviews, hiring partnership, analytics, and continued development.

Part 1 / 7 chapters

Part I - Sourcing

Search fundamentals, modern research methods, sourcing tools, social networks, contact discovery, and OSINT.

Find and research
  1. 01

    History of recruitment

    • Top skills for sourcers and recruiters
    • An important skill of the 21st century
  2. 02

    Sourcing fundamentals

    • Sourcer, recruiter, or headhunter?
    • Boolean search
    • Advanced search operators
    • File-type search
    • Common search techniques
  3. 03

    Google and search engines

    • Resume search
    • Google search strings
    • Custom search engines
    • Bing and other search engines
  4. 04

    Sourcing tools

    • Browsers and plugins
    • Recruiting applications
    • Turning everyday tools into sourcing tools
  5. 05

    Social media and networks

    • LinkedIn search and X-ray search
    • Facebook, X, and Meetup
    • GitHub, GitLab, and technical communities
    • International and diversity sourcing
  6. 06

    Other websites and research techniques

    • Candidate email research
    • Image research
    • Working with less obvious public sources
  7. 07

    OSINT techniques and tools

    • What OSINT is
    • Responsible public-source research
    • Google Dorks and advanced operators

Part 2 / 10 chapters

Part II - Recruitment

Candidate engagement, branding, interviews, stakeholder partnership, recruitment analytics, and long-term professional growth.

Engage, decide, and improve
  1. 08

    Your secret source of candidates

    • Building and maintaining overlooked talent channels
  2. 09

    LinkedIn

    • Profile fundamentals
    • Growing a useful network
    • Invitations and messages
    • Recognizing fake profiles
  3. 10

    Branding

    • Personal and employer branding
    • Employee value proposition
    • Brand ambassadors
    • Employee advocacy and engagement
  4. 11

    Job descriptions and storytelling

    • Writing effective job advertisements
    • Story structure
    • Text and color in recruitment communication
    • Emotion and different content formats
  5. 12

    Candidate experience

    • Candidate journey
    • Engagement and nurturing
    • Building useful talent networks
  6. 13

    Candidates

    • Knowing the target audience
    • Passive candidates
    • Influence, feedback, and ghosting
    • Avoiding false ideas of the perfect hire
  7. 14

    Recruitment

    • Interview methods
    • Hiring-manager partnership
    • Intake meetings
    • Referrals and internal hiring
    • Talent mapping, cold outreach, and agile recruitment
  8. 15

    Recruitment analytics

    • Recruiting reports
    • Quality of hire
    • Cost of a bad hire
    • Assessing sourcing performance
  9. 16

    Recruiters

    • Learning through conferences and mentors
    • Information overload
    • Sharing knowledge
    • Building a sourcing support network
  10. 17

    Epilogue

    • Continuing to learn, test, and improve

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