Many continuing education companies employ local experts to teach recertification courses. These courses can be found online but frequently behind dynamically generated content which makes it “deep web� content not picked up buy regular search engines. However, the content of those sites can be easily found with just a little bit of digging around.

Take, for example, Tax Accountants. Lorman.com is offering 98 local training events over the next three months in just about every state in the US and province in Canada. If you are looking for someone in Sales & Use Tax in Arizona, look no further than here: http://www.lorman.com/seminars/seminar_faculty.php?pid=186496&tid=&sid=. Each course lists a bio on the faculty presenting the course, and there are hundreds of people listed in these bios. Simply find the topic or city of interest, and look up the faculty.   

Lorman.com teaches other course as well, in areas such as:   Employment & Labor, Workers Compensation, Payroll, Benefits, Constructions, Environmental Services, Water Law, Public Works, Land Development, HV AC, Medical Records, Nursing, Insurance, Banking, Collections, Sales, Manufacturing, and a few others.

If instead you seek Financial Attorneys specializing in Probate Law, check out this event

http://www.nbi-sems.com/seminfo/nbi-moreinfo.asp?session-id=46101 and look at this faculty http://www.nbi-sems.com/seminfo/nbi-EvtBio.asp. Or maybe you are looking for Nurses? http://www.crosscountryeducation.com/cce/conferences/bootcamp/faculty.jsp. Or say you work for a Children’s Hospital and need Coders: http://www.codingconferences.com/pediatric08s.htm or Speech Pathologists like Julianne http://www.audioeducator.com/industry_conference.php?id=1009.

Yeah, it is just that easy.  

Oh and sometimes you find not just the instructors but also participants, particularly when the training company publishes “testimonials� such as the dozens found on this HV AC training company’s page: http://www.americantrainco.com/about_Company.aspx.

 

Cheers,

Shally 

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Late in the end of the 20th century I arrived at the conclusion that sourcing was more than merely a way for me to meet my recruitment goals by finding talent unavailable in mainstream sources, it was to be my chosen career.

When I started at this Sourcing hardly existed as a function, much less a dedicated role. Back them many though it was impossible to build a successful career entirely upon sourcing. I recognized early on I wanted to leave a professional mark in this world by inspiring a generation of sourcers, and raising the overall level of our industry. I am fortunate to have had so many friends and mentors who have lit the trail I follow, and have lent to me strong shoulders on which I stand.

Since the summer last year (when we found out Sammy Jo was on her way, I began soul-searching to decide which of three directions I would take. As I did that I also began having conversations with my close friends, business advisors and mentors and asked them for pros and cons on each of my three choices. My choices were:

1.      Continue growing organically and slowly

2.      Merge with an organization that could provide us the infrastructure we needed to grow

3.      Scale back to a more manageable 'lifestyle' business that made just enough to live on but would not grow

As I had conversations with my advisors it became painfully clear that Option 1 - organic growth - was potentially disastrous because my small company of five employees was already suffering from diminishing bandwidth and serious growing pains which would only increase. Several of my advisers had taken that option in their own businesses and each of them inevitably crashed and burned out.

Option 3 was scary because I had the desire to continue on the trail and shrinking just did not go along with my goals. That left Option 2 but the few I approached wanted to “buy” me and as many of you know I am just not for sale. When I brought up this topic with Don Ramer he never offered to buy me. In fact, he said “Shally, you don’t need me, and I don’t need you, so if we were to join forces it would be perfect!” which lead to a conversation about our core values and business models. We arrived at the conclusion that our two organizations had a chance of affecting a sea change in the industry if we banded together. That kind of change is something in which we are both deeply passionate. After a couple of visits to each others’ HQ and collaborating on a few joint projects it became obvious that a merger on the level of true partnership and collaboration was the obvious choice.

So here we are today – and I would like to use this blog as a way to have a conversation with my friends out there in Cyberspace who may have questions about what, if anything, this means to them. Please also read our official Press Release: http://jobmachine.net/merger along with John Zappe's scoop on ERE's InsideRecruiting here:

http://www.ere.net/inside-recruiting/news/arbita-and-job-machine-merge-182329.asp then come back and let me know your thoughts on all of this.

Cheers,

Shally 

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The SEND button is overused and much of what skirts around your spam blocker and manages to land in your inbox is fluff. Some mail you’ll definitely want to keep, even a bit of “resume spam” can be useful in the future, but other mail is total junk you want to delete unread. However, what about all those messages which require your action? Like good resumes among the bad spam, solid business opportunities could also be lost to inbox bloat.

Like me you may use Outlook but most advanced email programs today offer you solutions to help with inbox bloat. I have been using Outlook for the last ten years and have developed quite the expertise on filtering email using the Organize function and the Rules Wizards. Most email providers, like mine, employ robust, top of the line enterprise grade spam filters, which capture a vast majority of the real trash. What I need is a system that helps me organize and prioritize the pieces that are not clearly trash so I can quickly pick out the real opportunities from the marginal.

For that, I use Folders, Colors, Views and the Junk Mail feature in Outlook. These features are available by selecting Tools in your Outlook, and from that menu choose Organize. Here are some efficient ways to deal with professional, non-commercial, inbound mail, whether it is resume spam, solicited leads or unsolicited “announcements:”

FOLDERS

I use the folder tab to select from specific senders to go in designated folders. Messages from friends and family go in the Private folder, messages from newsletters I subscribe to go in their respective folders for each newsletter. I do the same with emails from LinkedIn and other online networks. I even create folders for each campaign and automatically move all incoming reply’s to that particular campaign folder.

COLORS

I filter messages from specific senders by coloring them in groups like gray for pseudo-junk, red for internal messages from my co-workers and anything marked Urgent, blue from my close friends, yellow for news, green for external business and so on. You get the picture! It is much easier to distinguish the messages this way and take appropriate action.

VIEWS

I set aside a period in the mid-morning just before lunch, with a cup of coffee, to go through my email and start with selecting my views. I select the view by 'Conversation Topic' or “Thread.” This lists messages with common subjects all together, and this way can take action on or delete entire threads at once without having to comb through the whole mess. Next, I go to the view by 'Sender' and again can review all the messages from one person and either take action, move to a folder for later or delete them. Finally I choose the 'Sent To' view which sorts all of what's left in a list which lets me view if they were sent to my work or private account, or if I was just copied on a message to someone else, or if it’s a message to a list or group. This is a great view because I can see whom the message was sent to – and it is not always sent directly to me. If I am not the only one in the TO: box then it is quite likely that the message is of less priority, unless of course it is from a client, co-worker, or someone I know well. For example, messages to a list are addressed to the list and sorted that way unless they were private messages sent directly and only to me. I then take action on all the ones where my primary address is the only one in the TO: box, then I look at my other email accounts, then I sort through the ones where I was copied, and finally I glance through the ones that are from services like lists, groups, LinkedIn, Plaxo and so on. This works best if you have or can set up aliases like jobs@yourcompany.com. It also works great with multiple email accounts.

There are three other organizational aids to help you control inbox clutter: the Junk Mail processing feature, flags, and the built-in Rules Wizard.

JUNK

To access the Junk Mail settings simply hold down the right mouse button while you hover over an email message. You will see a menu where one of the choices is the “Junk Email” organizer. Select this and you can enter Junk Email Options where the systems lets you manage junk messages and “adult content” that makes it through your spam filters. I choose to move them - they go in a Junk Email folder so I can keep them on record in case A) it gets out of hand and I want to take action or B) it turns out later they were erroneously marked as spam and it is a real email. You can also right click on a message and mark the sender as a Junk. This way you build your junk sender list on the fly. You can always edit this list yourself and download updates from Microsoft.

When you right click on a message in your inbox one of the Junk Email choices immediately accessible is “Add sender to Blocked Senders List.” What this does is move that email address to a list of addresses that you are Outlook will block. In the future, any messages from that sender will be treated as junk and either deleted, or moved to the Junk folder depending on what you choose under Junk Email Options.

FLAGS

Some time ago, I took a course in time management where I learned that to be effective handling items on my desk I should only pick them up once and either A) delegate, B) take action or C) create a task. With Outlook Flags, I can do the same thing in my inbox. I can sort by flag status; assign flags with one of six colors. By right clicking on the flag icon on my message in the inbox view, I can quickly assign a color, create a task reminder, or delete the flag. You can create your own arbitrary “category” for each color. For example, mine are:

1. Red: Urgent Action pending on my part, item requires my attention and has a tight deadline
2. Orange: Action required on my part, and there’s a loose due date but it is neither firm nor impending
3. Yellow: Item requiting further discussion with someone else before I can take any action
4. Blue: Item where I am awaiting response or feedback from someone else and the item needs my follow up before it can be completed
5. Purple: anything that is “for the record” or FYI like info to read or look at but such that it doesn't require any action on my part
6. Green: item that has received an automated response via my Rules Wizard

In addition to colored flags for messages, I can also add a reminder to the flag. This reminder can have no due date, or it can pop up a notification at a date and time I choose. Once the alert comes up, or at any time once I take action on the item I can mark it completed, clear the flag, or even change the due date. Some default tasks are built into the flag interface. The ones I find myself using frequently are: call, follow up, FYI, reply and review, but I can also type in my own reminder text like “Call Bob to see if he’s still interested” and so on. Finally, you can sort your inbox by color of flag, or use views to see only specific flags and even sort them by due date. 

RULES WIZARD

Spam will never completely cease but with the Rules Wizard, you have quite a bit of control. You may know some of the more common features like the Out of Office Assistant, which is actually a preset rule, but there are a vast amount of activities you can manage with the Rules Wizard, limited only by your imagination. Here are a few ideas on things the Rules can do, taken from my own settings:

You can use Rules Wizard to:

• Create alerts that show up on your desktop
• Create tasks and “to do’s” or reminders for specific messages, senders, subjects, emails with certain keywords
• Craft automatic replies (auto responders)
• Distinguish internal from external mail
• Expire or move mail after a certain number of days
• Filter all the items from a mailing list, group or source like Linked, Plaxo, newsletters, etc.
• Filter junk mail that makes it into your mailbox
• Flag items for future activities
• Forward specific senders or topics to your mobile phone or to an assistant
• Handle messages forwarded from another user's mailbox
• Mark specific emails as read
• Search for phrases in messages
• Sort messages by mail account
• Turn emails into tasks, contacts or calendar items

Windows Library offers a great “primer” on using the Rules Wizard here: http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/191/17/toc.html

Cheers,

Shally 

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When you do a search and see someone's employer in their profile, you can now click on some of those companies and see a summary page of competitive intelligence! 

Over  160,000 profiles of companies will show this feature and any user can see them. The company profile contains a succinct overview of a company's industry data in combination with LinkedIn data, and it pulls information from Capital IQ. 

What do you see here?

•  A list of all that company's employees to which you are connected
• A list of  RECENT HIRES  from that company! (also from your network)
• A list of people  RECENTLY PROMOTED  at that company! (also from your network)
• A list of companies were people CAME FROM  before they were hired to this company!
• A list of companies people GO TO  when they leave this company!
• A list of companies that this company's employees are 'most connected' to!
• What locations do most of the company's employees live in!
• The company's most  common job titles
• From what  universities the company  hires the  most 
• The average  tenure for people at that company (how long they last)
• And a distribution of  AGE and  GENDER at that company!

And soon you will also be able to add, to your company page, the following:

• A list of targeted jobs, recruitment videos, and other promotional material for recruitment efforts
• Information about your company's products and services
• Company images

Cheers,

Shally 

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HINT: How did Randy add all those groups? He right-clicked on each of the icons under the Additional Information section of a profile and selected 'Open in new tab' or 'Open in new window' then simply accepted the invitation to each of those groups :)

Cheers,

Shally 

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For attending the webinar, you get:

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Cheers,

Shally 

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Check out this blog post on John Sumser's Roadshow website about this years conference season. In it he discusses Kennedy, Onrec, Sourcecon, ERE, HR Tech and Direct Employers. I presented at all of those and have to tell you I'm tired, but its been a fantastic year for conferences. I've got way more than I gave. I don't plan to travel this much next year because I'm a new daddy, so this was a great experience.

But mostly I've learned that the benefit I get from attending conferences comes from (read more...)

• Part 24 hours
• Past Week
• Past Month
• Past 2 Months
• Past 3 Months
• Past 6 Months
• Past Year

For example, search for: Kennedy Orlando Conference and select the 'Past 24 hours' mode like this.

But the fun doesn't stop there.

If you take a look at that URL - (hint: copy and paste into WordPad or notepad) you will find a qdr command close to the end in the SQL sequence like this:

&as_qdr=d

The ampersand (&) means its an 'appended command' per say, then the 'as_' part means this is an 'Advanced Search' feature, the 'q' means query and the 'dr' means 'Date Return.' Finally, the = precedes the time frame you want to search.

In this case 'd' equals one day, which is of course 24 hours. You will notice that in the search results page you now see a dropdown with the original time frame choices.

What you can do from here though is instead of using that drop down to modify your time frame search, you can instead add stuff to the right of the d. For example, edit the URL to say &as_qdr=d3 instead, and you now have a search for the past three days which is not actually a drop down choice.

Play around with this and you will notice you can make it just about any amount of days you want.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

And you will only read this here, I think? If you select Past Week or Past Month from the drop down you will notice the 'dr' changes from a '=d' modifier (for days) to a '=w' modifier for weeks or an '=m' modifier (for months).

This means you can search for the past two weeks of crawled data by entering =w2 instead, which is again not a choice on the drop down, and of course the same applies to months like =m4.

You know me, I have to take this all the way to the end... so you can theoretically still do this for 'years' by using =y2 for two years though that starts to return quite a few results and I'm not sure of the practicality.

WARNING: Just because you are limiting your search to a specific period of time doesn't mean those pages will be fresh. Many dynamically generated web pages appear to be as fresh as hot bread coming out of the oven but its only because they have a JavaScript that changes the date and time on the page, or it could also be an old blog post with recent comments for example.

Cheers,

Shally

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