While your enthusiastic recruiting and sourcing peers investigate Pinterest for sourcing, or believe that Facebook is the place to be, because it is large, you can do wonders by using very unique, often unannounced Google-Plus features, for sourcing. Don’t wait for the membership numbers to catch up; it is definitely the place number Two (after LinkedIn) to be for a sourcer.
What makes Google-Plus very special is that its functionality is closely connected with… (surprise!) Google search.
Plus, due to frequent changes, if you stay updated on the functions and algorithms for both Google-Plus and for the Google search, you will already be ahead of most.
To limit this post to just some of the beautiful functionality on Google-Plus, let’s take a look at finding people for circles. (I wrote about some cool circle’ features in an earlier blog post).
Tip #1: Suggestions
Use “related suggestions” to look for people with backgrounds similar to those you have identified. The picture says it all:
Article Continues Below
Tip #2: Search for target companies
Not in the search box but in the search for people to add to circles:
Tip #3 Search for target schools
In the same drop-down menu:
Tip #4: Search for publicly shared circles
Related to your target audience, and locate people as members of those circles.
Excellent advice! Thanks so much for sharing. I am going to test these tips out today!
We can help
to educate your managers on how to get the best out of their people – Good
management practices will increase staff retention & decrease absence
levels.
Good stuff Irina and thanks for including my pic and name 😉
Regarding tip #4 I found this google spreadheet with a database of Google+ Shared Circles goo.gl/PrcGo You can save a copy of this sheet to your personal drive account (under “file” drop down of menu bar).It is also important to use #hashtags in your search similar to twitter search. e.g. #SharedCircles