Is finding people and information part of your day to day job? Social media has been a revelation for this, giving us access to information like never before. Social searching, however, comes with it's own problems - primarily the volume and variety of results AND the unstructured element of user generated content. 

Search engines like Google and Bing make it easier, but at the same time, give you results that they want you to see - sometimes not necessarily the best results for the searches. More structured and precise searching is required to make the most of the time you spend searching for people or information - especially in a fast paced environment like recruitment.

In a few weeks time, one of the world's best online searching experts - Irina Shamaeva -  comes to London to run her highly regarded workshop - PeopleSourcing - for the first time in the UK. I first met Irina at a TRULondon event a couple of years ago, and can honestly say that she is an absolute expert in using every single possible search trick/tool/method to find people and information. She also has Martin Lee (UK) and Andrea Mitchell (Australia)  working with her on the day to provide a full international flavour to the day.

If part of your job is finding people or information - whether you are a recruiter, researcher or resourcer - then you should be attending this course on Wednesday 24th October in London. Just to be clear, I am not being paid to promote this course, I am recommending you attend it because it is damn good. 

The PeopleSourcing Course comes with it's own certification and covers:

• covers all the material that everyone searching for professionals on the Internet needs
• assures that the attendees practice and master the skills they learn
• teaches the principals and ideas of people sourcing along with the rules and templates
• is a proof of true hands-on people sourcing skills
• provides referrals for new opportunities to attendees

For those of you that want more detail on the day you can see it all here (Level1), but just to give you an idea of the level of detail you will learn on the day, here is the content covered in the first session of the day:

Session 2 and 3 covers social networks and people sourcing tools respectively. Of course there is a cost to the day - you didn't think it was free did you? At £386.50, the day is a bargain. You can guaruntee that the very next day after the course, YOU WILL be finding people you never knew existed before!! Get yourself booked in here before it fills up!

As a fan of this blog  - Irina has kindly given me a discount code for my readers. So if you use SIRONADISC   when you get to the checkout, you will get a £50 discount on the day. Bargain!

It isn't often searching guru's like Irina come over from the US, so take advantage and spend the day with Irina and her team later this month, and really become a people sourcing expert.

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