Searching high and low for candidates, but still turning up empty-handed? You could be missing out on talent in plain sight – candidates who are already in your funnel.
If you think you’ve exhausted all your options and outlets for sourcing qualified candidates, try these techniques for discovering and re-discovering potential hires for your role.
If you ever found yourself wanting to toss your laptop across the room because your candidate search results turned up zilch, you can thank this guy.
George Boole was a 19th century English mathematician whose greatest gift to recruiters was Boolean algebra. Used correctly, it's a way to hack conjunctions and punctuation marks into powerful sourcing tools. Used incorrectly, it's a surefire, frustrating way to filter in irrelevant talent.
Tired of ineffective web searches? Wonder what 'and', 'or', 'and not', asterisks, parentheses, and quotation marks have to do with sourcing qualified candidates?
