Active sourcing: successfully attracting talent via LinkedIn, XING & Co.

Successfully implementing social media recruiting

This training is held in German.
This basic seminar is the perfect introduction to active sourcing for any HR department that has little or no experience in direct approach. The shift from an employer market to an applicant market is forcing many companies to become more active in their search for suitable employees. Placing job advertisements is no longer enough. Recruitment agencies and headhunters make this their business. But why don't you, as an employer, use digital active sourcing solutions yourself? In this training , you will learn how to successfully approach applicants. You will also get an overview of active sourcing solutions from XING, LinkedIn and other platforms.

Contents

Active Sourcing - Getting started

  • What is behind active sourcing?
  • Why is active sourcing so important for companies?
  • Active sourcing as part of the overall recruiting process?
  • How can you save yourself the headhunter in the future?

Sustainable recruiting

  • What resources and skills does a modern HR department need?
  • The role of recruiters: How is their work changing and what skills do they need?
  • How many resources do you need for active sourcing?

Digital solutions for the search for candidates

  • Overview of the leading active sourcing tools XING and LinkedIn.
  • The XING Talent Manager - What can the tool really do?
  • The LinkedIn Recruiter - What opportunities can be exploited?
  • Get to know other platforms such as Get-in-IT and CV data.

Experience active sourcing/group exercises

  • Development of sourcing personas as requirement profiles.
  • Live: Experience XING or LinkedIn research.
  • Live: Insights into the active sourcing licenses at XING and LinkedIn.
  • Boolean operators - understanding and using them.
  • The perfect approach to candidates - write to them and convince them!

AI in Active Sourcing/Impulse

  • AI in active sourcing - use of ChatGPT.
  • Understanding AI solutions from XING and LinkedIn.

Learning environment

Once you have registered, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services relating to this training course in your online learning environment.

Your benefit

  • You know what active sourcing is all about.
  • You will learn which requirements are necessary for the development of active sourcing.
  • You understand which channels you can use for different target groups.
  • You will learn what is important in a professional candidate approach.
  • You will receive tips and tricks on how to use the leading active sourcing tools - XING and LinkedIn.
  • You will learn methods with which you can use the passive job market for yourself and your candidate approach.
  • You will get LIVE insights into many tools and benefit from best-practice examples.

This is a training training course. For experienced active sourcers, we recommend the training "E-Recruiting Advanced - from Active Sourcing to Performance Recruiting"

Methods

trainer, many group exercises, best-practice examples, work aids, discussion, exchange of experience

Recommended for

HR managers, recruiters, HR manager who want to acquire basic knowledge of active sourcing and/or have had too little time for active sourcing so far.

Open Badges - Show what you can do digitally too.

Open Badges are recognized, digital certificates of participation. These verifiable credentials are the current standard for integration in career networks such as LinkedIn.

With them, you digitally demonstrate the competences you possess. After successful completion, you will receive an Open Badge from us.

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Attendees comments

"You are guided very well through the registration process, the price-performance ratio was right and the quality of the training was very good."

Tino Hanf
JOBMEDICA GmbH

"I can recommend the training because of the good support before and during the seminar, the transparency and the very good tips that you won't find anywhere else."

Astrid Haag
EDF Renewables Deutschland GmbH

"I have experienced extremely competent training here."

Karin Tänzer
Saalesparkasse

"Great speaker - once again you could take a lot with you; very practical (no theoretical lectures); group exercises (also promotes the exchange with the other HR managers)"

Svenja Bär
SWP Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co. KG

"My expectations were fully met. Informative content, good structure and fantastic lecturer."

Ole Bartens
Deutsche Eisenbahn Service AG

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Active Sourcing: What, Why, Where & How?

For recruitment agencies and headhunters, active sourcing is part of their day-to-day business. However, more and more HR departments are deciding to take this task into their own hands rather than outsourcing it to external agencies. Instead of waiting for applications after placing a job advertisement, Talent Acquisition Managers actively approach suitable talents to [...]

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Active Sourcing: What, Why, Where & How?

For recruitment agencies and headhunters, active sourcing is part of their day-to-day business. However, more and more HR departments are deciding to take this task into their own hands rather than outsourcing it to external agencies. Instead of waiting for applications after placing a job advertisement, Talent Acquisition Managers actively approach suitable talents to [...]

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