How to test your Internet visibility

"Who are the best Microsoft recruiters?" ... Oh, according to Google, it's us!

Microsoft JobsBlog — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:18:32 GMT

One neat thing I enjoy about having a weblog is that I can view the referrers to see how people navigated to my page. Being a self-confessed search engine junky (hey, that’s why they pay me the big bucks!), I take great pleasure in reading others’

"Who are the best Microsoft recruiters?" ... Oh, according to Google, it's us!

Microsoft JobsBlog — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:47:17 GMT

re: How to test your Internet visibility

HeatherLeigh — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:08:59 GMT

Delphine,

Sorry but I don't think that I am the right person to answer those questions.

re: How to test your Internet visibility

Delphine — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:29:32 GMT

Hello Heather,

Writing from Mauritius Island, a little paradise in the Indian Ocean.

I am working on a web site for realestate advertisings in Mauritius (renting, buying...) + realestate info (news laws, projects...)

Should I think about the Internet visibility before developping the site? If yes, what are the most important advises or error not to do.

Other question : if I buy some keywords on Google, can I be sure that I will be on the first two pages and will it help for my visibility later on.

Could you tell me more about "text mining"?

Thanks a lot

Testing your Internet Visibility

Heather's — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:52:00 GMT

re: How to test your Internet visibility

Heather — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:20:00 GMT

Hey John-we do use Eliyon in recruiting. It's probably not one of my top sources as I find better info just googling folks myself (more current info at least). But I totally agree with you that internet visibility is just one part and that a personal social network is also important. It's how I've gotten most of my past positions.

re: How to test your Internet visibility

John Kane — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:32:00 GMT

Hopefully, someone will find the text ming link useful, as I also agree with you in regards to "marketing yourself is an art, not a science". However, at least one company has made it a bit more scientific...

Checkout "Eliyon Technologies wins first U.S. patent" at http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_ID=63800 - "Eliyon Technologies provides web-based source of information on people and companies. ... Eliyon's customers include companies such as AOL Time Warner, Oracle, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Microsoft, Staples, among others".

I have my own network of friends and ex-work colleagues, who have provided both job leads for me while I transition from working fulltime on a book project (with a bit of consulting too) to working full time as an employee. I'm also active in the public newsgroups and get not only email replies to me directly, but in one case an actual consulting gig. So, there are many ways of networking and making yourself more visible both on the internet and through your own network of friends!

re: How to test your Internet visibility

Heather — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:48:00 GMT

Yeah, I'm not really technical so text mining is a bit beyond me, but hopefully some others here can utilize this info, John.

With regards to Balaji's previous comments, I'd have to say that marketing yourself is an art, not a science. It's not a perfect system, so indeed, the better qualified candidate may not have that much information on the web. I think it's incumbent upon the individual to market his/herself rather than on the recruiter to somehow "know" about these folks that are not visible (we are trying, but for obvious reasons, we have to concentrate the most time on those that are most visible).

There's really no valid reason why a well qualified person couldn't make themselves visible. Join industry groups, get a resume blog or start a regular blog. There are tons of things someone can do to be found.

My comments aren't intended to describe some kind of fair and scientific scenario where recruiters can enter the blog world to identify all top talent. We have to use all the tools available to us and the internet is just one of them (it's a major one, but there are others). On the flip side of that, candidates can utilize tools to be found and that is the spirit of my post...to explain how to do this better.

If someone comes up with one tool that will effectively identify top talent, quickly, easily and in a cost effective manner, I think I am out of a job anyway.

re: How to test your Internet visibility

John Kane — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:04:00 GMT

Heather,
To get back to the inital feedback response... I write a blog on SQLJunkies that isspecific to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Full-Text Search (FTS) as well as to Text Mining and I've gotten top rankings on Google with "Text Mining" and SQL keywords. Checkout this Google query results:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22text+mining%22+sql

So, I agree with Balaji.
Regards,
John
PS: Look for more news on Text Mining and SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) after it's beta2 version is released very soon!

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