The Art of Cold Calling

Cold calling is one of the most effective tools job hunters have at their disposal. But it’s effective only if it’s done correctly and if you have plan how to do that.

During the trainings, that I am doing for my colleagues. I always try to mention one of the most important things. You need to overcome your fear from cold calling! It’s not a personal it’s just a business and you can take these calls like a game. Yes you will hear lots of “Sorry, but I am not interested”, but still you can change this within few seconds on “OK, so I am listening” It's easier than you think! 

In fact, you are about to call someone to discuss something that could really make a difference to their career!

Whether you’re a junior recruiter or a senior recruiter, you absolutely should add cold calls to your portfolio of job search activities. And not only LinkedIn! :)

How to find candidates on Stack Overflow

If you are IT recruiter you are good or bad, nothing between. If you are good, then what you really do, what you live for, is solving problems how to find the right candidate. If you are bad recruiter, you probably don’t know what Stack Overflow is or you are just starting with IT hiring.

Master GitHub hiring (X-Ray GitHub)

URL: https://github.com

What is Github?

GitHub is a Git repository web-based hosting service which offers all of the functionality of Git as well as adding many of its own features.

GitHub has become such a staple amongst the open-source development community that many developers have begun considering it a replacement for a conventional resume and some employers require applications to provide a link to and have an active contributing GitHub account in order to qualify for a job.  

Sourced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub

Personal Data Protection

Personal Data Protection = Souhlas se správou, zpracováním a uchováním osobních údajů

I was asked to do a test about the biggest personal agencies on the market here at Prague. So what we did (and behind “we” is me and my friend) few tests how the agencies are working.  Because I am traveling, I asked my friend to be a "partner in crime" and help me with the research and this small test.

Agencies in these tests are:

Adecco, Randstad, Advantage Consulting, Hays, Manpower and Grafton.

CzechRecruiter on the Twitter

Hi all, so it’s official! I am also on Twitter. Yeah, I am not that old for Twitter! :)

You can find me here https://twitter.com/czechrecruiter

P.S.: Don’t expect anything clever, you know it’s still Twitter ;)

Be Master of your LinkedIn Profile

A great way to build your network online and fast is to use LinkedIn. In this article I will demonstrate you, how easy you can build the network on LinkedIn fast with the right people.

Quick warning: Create one profile only! Some so called “LinkedIn gurus” will tell, that you need to create two profiles on LinkedIn. Please don’t do that. You will look dumb and one of your profiles will be probably remove from LinkedIn.

Creating profile is easy, just follow the steps on Linkedin and try to create the English version of your profile first. Second language is plus, but English version should be mandatory.

(Part 3) X-Ray LinkedIn, use Google

I hope you enjoyed part 1 and part 2. In this part I will going tell you more about how to X-Ray LinkedIn through Google.

Lots of things is going in my life right now, so I will write more articles soon, but in this moment I will take a break, because I have to do some important stuff.


Why to use x-ray for LinkedIn?

Reason 1: Full Names (always)

Reason 2: Unlimited profiles: You can view more than 100 profiles and absolutely for free. LinkedIn will show you only 100 profiles per 1 search.

Reason 3: View out of network connections

(Part 2) How to: Research Synonyms for Your Boolean Search

Search engines on LinkedIn and somewhere else are not very intelligent and therefore it is often difficult to find what you are looking for.

In part 1 you get more familiar with Boolean search commands, but another tactic or approach can yield dramatic results. One of the tactics is the find the relevant keywords.


So start searching smart with more relevant keywords!

Most search engines (LinkedIn etc.) are not using any semantic search technology. So if you search the keyword .NET, then you just get results with that word in it. But you are not going to get any other results/synonyms like C#, ASP.NET, ASPX etc. With the right synonyms you can find more relevant profiles for your role.

So if you want to get more relevant search results for your search, then you must work with synonyms and find the right ones! Equation is pretty simple here, more synonyms equals more relevant search results!

(Part 1) Linkedin Boolean Search (Don’t pay for ineffective trainings)

There are many people on the Czech market offering LinkedIn trainings, most of them are expensive, full of old tricks and pretty ineffective. So you don’t need to crack the code of LinkedIn; you need to learn the "code". And first thing you need to learn is Boolean search, this will help you a lot.

So save your money, when you can learn these LinkedIn basics for free. But if you still want to pay for the ineffective training, that’s up to you. But rather spend your money on something better and help some people that really need your help http://www.clovekvtisni.cz/.

But everybody has a choice to learn for free or pay for the training. Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.

First lesson, learn the basics

Learn how to search for the right keywords and create the search string.

When you use Boolean search operators on LinkedIn, you are able to search the entire LinkedIn universe, not just your network. The string that you are going to use is going to entire profile, including the summary and headline. The number of results you will get also depending on your level of LinkedIn membership, if you have free account you will see only small number of profiles (only 100)