If there’s one person I suggest getting to know and adding to your network it would be Jim Stroud. Jim has been in the Recruiting/HR space for awhile now and is one of those completely crazy out-of-the-box thinkers (for lack of a better word) that loves to push the envelope. These kind of folks crank my tractor (as we say in the South).
A little more about Jim
Over the past decade Jim has built an expertise in lead generation strategies, social media recruiting, video production, podcasting, online research, competitive intelligence, community management and training. He has consulted for such companies as Microsoft, Google, MCI, Siemens and a host of startup companies. Recently, Jim Stroud joined Bernard Hodes Group as a Director of Sourcing and Social Strategy.
His approach to incorporating technology into the the mix of Branding, Recruiting and Sourcing (as well as the Job Search) is mind boggling. Can you tell I’m a true fan?
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Jim in about a 30 minute Google+ LIVE hangout with a few a my friends and discuss some up and coming technology and ways to get out of a rut and start figuring out creative ways to in add social into our branding, business and job search initiatives. We also had a chance to discuss his newly released book “Resume Forensics” which dives a little deeper into a few of the things we discussed. Take a look >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSI7IxCkUvE
In His Book
Resume Forensics is a quick and easy guide for Recruiters and Sourcers to finding free resumes and passive candidates on the web. I love that it is heavy on visuals and light on text, and he describes it to be written and designed for the short attention span of recruiters, sourcers and the companies that employ them. They say we all have an attention span of a gnat, these days.
Here’s a few things Jim covers in the book:
- What you should do prior to sourcing resumes online.
- Why you should use more than one search engine
- How to find free resumes on Google, Yahoo and Bing
- Secret search commands that are exclusive to Google
- How to find resumes your competition has overlooked
- How to use Google resources to find passive candidates
And much more! So whether you are a novice, an expert or something in between, this book is filled with tips, tricks and strategies that you can immediately use to fill your open positions and make headway above your competition.
Here’s a discount code specifically for our Discovering Social community: 47P28ZGS on Amazon.
As I mentioned in the beginning of this post, make sure to connect with Jim. You’ll really learn a ton, and have fun along the way.
www.youtube.com/jimstroud
www.linkedin.com/in/jimstroud/
www.twitter.com/jimstroud
gplus.to/jimstroud