xing best practices for sourcing

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Xing Best Practices For Sourcing


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About

Founded Hamburg, Germany (2003)

Named openBC/Open Business Club until 17

November 2006

Total 5 million users across DACH (as per

2010)

Social media, professional network and jobportal
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Advanced search using

Check the search tips option for Advanced

search


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Boolean operators for

AND operator is default e.g. key words

"IT Sales brings back the results for both IT

and Sales

OR operator "(Sales OR Vertrieb)"

"Sales OR Vertrieb

NOT Operator "-"helps you to eliminate thekey words from your search e.g "Sales"

eliminates the search results with "Sales"
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Other operators for

Quotes using quotes enables you to searchfor a term/sentence etc. with more than singlewords and brings the exact results.

e.g. "SAP BW" will bring the results with theword "SAP BW" togather and not SAP AND BW

Asterisk- adding asterisk to the end of a word

Helps you to broaden the serach for e.g."Manage*" will retrieve the resultsmanagement, manager etc.


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Advanced search filters for

Advanced search filters helps you to retrieve the best search

results.

Interesting filters "Person has" helps you to find if the person has the skills

which we are looking for e.g. typing "hyperion financial

management" in the person has filter will retrieve the profiles

with the give skill

"Country/region" helps you to filter your results with the

country which you are looking for

"Employment status" helps to find the employment status

of the profile holder, helps to identify the active candidates


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Advanced search filters for


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Candidate profile screening on

Helps to identify the groups and organizations


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Candidate profile screening on

Contacts qualified candidate networks

include more qualified candidates.

Note: not all the profiles will be with contacts

view enabled


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groups

Member search on Groups helps you to find

the hidden candidates.


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Groups

Xing groups also provides job postings which

can be visible to the members.


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Minijobs & status updates

Minijobs helps you to advertise the job ads

not exceeding 100 charecters and can be

visible to the direct contacts

Status updates can also help to advertise the

job ads to your direct contacts


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Companies

Helps to find the candidates by company


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Events

Events helps to identify the hidden candidates


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Candidate management

Xing also provides candidate management for

the recruiter membership It helps to buildup

the candidate database within xing via

bookmarking them and avoids contacting thesame candidate twice.


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