Vanessa Raath on hunting the best talent

"I often say LinkedIn is responsible for dumbing down our whole industry. Because it's too easy."

Vanessa Raath ???????? is the Founder of The Talent Hunter (Pty) Ltd and an ex-Scuba Diving Instructor. Based in South Africa, Vanessa teaches people within the talent industry how to hunt down and engage the best talent.

Vanessa shared with Mike tips and tricks for sourcing candidates and discussed the importance of personalised outreach.

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Vanessa’s is a huge advocate for personalisation, and part of that comes down to ensuring that you’re messaging the right people. She also shares strategies for finding the right people – including a GitHub hack.

You’ve got to make sure you’re messaging the right person, and if you want to see your response rates increase you have to start working on your personalisation.

Vanessa acknowledges however, that for a 360 recruiter that personalisation and sourcing for the best talent can be particularly challenging. With this in mind, she has designed her courses to help you find the best candidates quickly.

I firmly believe you need dedicated sourcers on your team

If you’re new to sourcing, or want to start looking outside of LinkedIn Vanessa shares that the easiest first step is to do some research on X-Ray Search and how to write a boolean search string.

You can sign up to Vanessa’s Online Academy?here.