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.

A new site I discovered recently called Backtype, is very similar to the fast-growing and popular microblogging site, Twitter. Backtype is like Twitter in that you can “find, follow and share comments across the web.”

Recruiters and Sourcers will instantly see the benefit of using Backtype to not only identify active and passive talent, but the site also represents a goldmine of solid leads to pursue, such as other networks, communities and places to discover talent to fill open positions. In the example below, you can see that Backtype offers advanced searching across their network of comments:

I found a few hundred comments tracked by Backtype that had the key phrase “my resume.” These are a few potential leads to check into:

You can also search across people as well. I ran a quick search for “John” and hundreds of “John’s” pulled up with searchable profiles, where you can view all of there comments. Great way to determine if this person may or may not be a potential fit for any open positions (i.e. mentions key words and skills, talks about his/her company, talks about what they do, etc.). In another example of people on Backtype, I used the key word “java”. The search pulled up a few hundred people using Java in the online ID. Here were my results:

Finally, Backtype is a place where your comments can “find a home to be discovered by others” For example, a recruiter can leave comments on blogs, news sites, journals and other places online, and leave his/her signature along with comments and links to their company (helping to brand the company) and open positions (helping to attract more potential candidates).