Time
good organisation and smart targeting can save time, but searching across all mediums and scheduling briefing sessions takes time. Commit time to the search.
With years of experience hunting for candidates, I know that for every campaign where the right candidate seems to fall into my lap, there is a campaign where I must use patience, resilience and perseverance in equal measure to find the right candidate
Resources
Industry recognised job boards such as Reed and Jobsite attract candidates to apply to adverts and also upload CV's to a searchable database.
Linkedin premium services offers an amazing database which allows for granular candidate searches (industry, years of experience, complex boolean) . Candidates can identify themselves as 'open to new opportunities' or simply leave a profile, waiting for a Recruiter such as myself to send a personalised mail to entice them.
ContactOut is the market leading service which can identify connect Github accounts and email addresses with Linkedin profiles which offers a further boost to personalisation to approaches.
Career Concept has subscriptions with all these services and also resources from our own database of candidates
Knowledge
Understand the brief and culture of the hiring company and you understand the candidate profile to search for.
use knowledge of cross over technologies and connected sectors to identify candidates who can easily adapt to the given environment
use experience to personalise intro's which will gain a positive response from prospective candidates
years of experience working with candidates at all levels have given me the depth of knowledge to benchmark candidates. This is used to effectively and confidently present a short list of credible candidates
That was way too much text for a website ....... but you did ask!
for those looking for a quick read, how do I get results?
Time + Resources + Knowledge

30+years
Experience in the field
11,000+
Satisfied employers and recruits
~34K
Screened recruits