This Thursday, September 18th from 1PM-3PM EST, Geoff Peterson, Managing Principal of General Lead (http://www.generallead.com/) and Editor of StaffBytes (http://www.staffbytes.com/) will conduct a fast-paced and detailed webinar for recruiters and sourcers, The War for Talent: 400+ Ways to Source Passive Talent.

Today, there is a “War for Talent” being waged amongst recruiters and sourcers to find and attract the best candidates. In this loaded webinar, you will discover 400+ leads to pursue in addition to easy-to-implement tips, ideas and strategies for uncovering passive candidates.
BONUS!! For Attending the webinar, you get:
FREE copy of The War for Talent: Starter Guide, which details 400+ sites, networks, communities and tools detailed in the webinar; 14-day trial of Broadlook Diver; and PowerPoint deck of 400+ slides to reference at a later date.
In this fast-paced interactive webinar, Geoff will tackle the following:
-Scores of newly emerging places online to find talent, such as Scribd, Koders, Backtype and Squidoo
-Example sites include Facebook, Technorati, Google, LinkedIn, Jigsaw and Twitter
-More examples include Digg, Ning, Indeed and many other sites, networks and communities
-Sourcing tools & tips referenced, including Joopz, Xobni, Broadlook, eGrabber and Google Alerts
-Live examples of dozens of sites including The Blogosphere & Social/Business Networks
-Demonstrations of Name Search Sites, Search Engines, Groups, Listserves and more
-Detailed searches conducted for IT/IS, Finance, Healthcare, Medical, Sales and more
-Live “mashup” examples: How to leverage one site with another (Google, Jigsaw and more)
-Advanced boolean search string examples for finding passive candidates online
-Overview of how to build a passive candidate talent pool on your own beyond the Webinar
-Live interactive Q&A conducted with examples on the spot
*Sign-up for the Webinar today at http://thewarfortalent.eventbrite.com/. Pay for one line and have your whole team join.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
About.com surveyed human resource professionals and recruiters about which of the top 10 job sites they found the best candidates on, survey results here:
http://humanresources.about.com/gi/pages/poll.htm?poll_id=5763275227&linkback=http://humanresources.about.com/b/a/258241.htm
I would have thought monster would have done better