Searchologist

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Jim Stroud is a “Searchologist” with an expertise in the full life-cycle placement of Executive and Technical personnel, Recruitment Research and Competitive Intelligence. He has consulted for such companies as Google, Siemens, MCI and a host of start-up companies. He presently serves Microsoft as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and is a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Technical Careers Blog.

Jim Stroud's popular website - JimStroud.com is where Jim Stroud rants about the recruiting industry with articles, interviews, podcasts, videos, comics and more. Of particular interest to Sourcers is Jim Stroud's Sourcing tutorials that he gives freely from his website. Below are a few examples of his classes, sourcing tips, white papers and product reviews.

FREE CLASSES

Headline Recruiting (Or… How to source passive candidates from online news resources!)
Part 1 of 5
Part 2 of 5
Part 3 of 5
Part 4 of 5
Part 5 of 5

Advanced Keyword Strategies for Recruiters
Part 1 of 3
Part 2 of 3
Part 3 of 3

SOURCING TIPS
Sourcing Candidates With A TV Guide
The Forgotten Children of Search
Bigfoot Recruiting: Sourcing what does not exist!
How to source terrorists online with Orkut
You gotta love MSN Spaces…

PRODUCT REVIEWS
SOURCING TIP: And Diigo was its name-O
Eluta is "Job Central" for Canadians
NEW SOURCING TOOL: Searchbots to the rescue!
Rollyo - Searchengine Taste Test #2

WHITE PAPERS
2007 Resume Sourcing Survey is a random sampling of online resume seaches performed on Live, Google and Yahoo for the purpose of discerning which searchengine has catalogued the most resumes.

The History of Sourcing is a timeline of events relevant to the internet sourcing industry.

In addition to material for sourcing, JimStroud.com has extensive educational/entertainment content geared towards Recruiters and Sourcers alike. "The Recruiters Lounge Podcast" features interviews and commentary on the recruiting industry and features co-host Karen Mattonen. "The Recruiters Lounge - Video Edition" is interviews and a light-hearted take on recruiting. As of this writing, "The Recruiting Life" is the only comic strip dedicated solely to the recruiting industry. Examples of these works are cited below.

THE RECRUITERS LOUNGE PODCASTS

Podcast - Konstantin Guericke - Co-Founder and VP Marketing at LinkedIn
Podcast- Ken Verges - Recruiting In India
About this H1-B Visa thing…
Podcast - Jim Durbin - The Future of Contract Recruiting
Podcast - Bill Vick - Happy About Linked In For Recruiting

THE RECRUITERS LOUNGE - VIDEO EDITION

Recruiting in India with AK Menon
VIDEO - The Recruiters Lounge - Oh My Goddess!
VIDEO - Who is behind SourceCon?

THE RECRUITING LIFE COMICSTRIP

THE DAY IN RECRUITING

Jim Stroud also produces The Day In Recruiting which is a one-page guide to popular recruiting blogs. A UK-version is produced by UK Recruiter - Louise Fletcher and can be found here.

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