Cleaning messy data using Google Refine

Wow, quite a promising, extremely useful tool, especially if you have loads of inconsistent & messy data. I haven't really tested it out but based on its video, I'd think lots of data researchers would find this really, really helpful.

Watch.




Interesting, right? :)

Finding Leads in Southeast Asia

TheNewLead Way

Look for Passive Job Seekers, fast & easy

Passive job seekers in general

Recruiting passive job seekers can be quite a challenge but essentially yields the most rewarding result for they usually encompass employees who are fulfilled & would be considered highly successful in their careers. These so-called candidates don’t even post their CVs online, has a record for excellence & career-longevity, are highly-motivated by doing a great job as oppose to earning incentives and would be considered the best talents to hire.

Active seeker comparison

Compared to active job seekers, they are hard to reach and harder to negotiate with. They might be open to new opportunities but unless the “other" pasture is greener & your business is generating high-growth opportunities, one would have to devote more time and effort in wooing a passive job seeker. So why hire them?

Why go for passive job seekers

If you are keen in looking for someone to fill in a highly demanding, highly specialized position and you’re willing to wait, select & catch the best candidate for the job, a passive job seeker is your best bet. In the long run, they’d definitely be worth it.

Initial Challenge

But finding them would be hard. It would be rare to see their updated CVs posted in jobsites and they might be too busy to frequent and actively join online communities. Probably one of the best way to contact them is by referral which isn’t easy to come by. Another is by using an online B2B contact database, like www.thenewlead.com

What is www.thenewlead.com?

TheNewLead is an online contact database of hard-to-reach decision makers, who conveniently & eminently are your passive job seekers. Our extensive database carries over 150,000 complete contact records of varying professional levels; C-level, VP-level, Managerial & Directorial Level. These contacts can be found in different parts of South East Asia and in other countries such as India, Brunei & Hong Kong.

By complete contact database, we mean complete contact information that includes the following:

1. Full name of contact

2. Job title

3. Business email

4. Direct phone no.

5. Main phone no.

6. Full name of current company

7. Business address

We also offer tools that allow you to plan & manage your weekly & monthly sales and marketing-related campaign. In this case, your recruit-that-damn-passive-job-seeker campaign.

Benefits

Thenewlead offers a compellingly low-cost solution that allows you to seek & reach passive job seekers who mostly, turn out to be the decision makers. Our directory allows you to target and contact these individuals in the quickies, easiest way possible. No more blind requests to social networking sites, no more extensive researches to be done, no more scouring for personal references. All you have to do is register at our website, search & view your selected candidates and contact and woo them immediately. That fast, that easy.

We also offer a customized data request which allows you to access highly specialized list of decision makers, that are not available within the database, but is a must have for you. You just provide the list of target accounts or the criterion for building the required target account list and we’ll take care of the rest.

For more information, head over to our website at www.thenewlead.com. You can also call our Singapore sales hotline at 62229970

Yammer - useful or not?

Ever heard about it? No, it's not a speech delivery, it's the way some professionals are interacting nowadays. Yammer is a facebook-ish tool that lets you connect with anyone within your company. You simply post status updates on your profile which automatically shows in your company feed. Assuming that you all have the same business email address, the same email domain,  just invite other employees to join in and voila, anyone from your company whether overseas or not, can create and join in on your conversation. If you want to address a particular message to a person, use @username or you can just simply say "to:person". You can also reply directly to their messages by simply typing in the reply field box. Think facebook and you'll easily understand the process.

You could also send files, images, links, create polls & events and even make an organization chart. 
Its really a radical way of communicating not only with in-house peers but also with your client, contractors, fans & followers of your brand/company. You just set up a community for people outside your network (company), invite them and you can instantly communicate with them by reading and answering their feeds.

You don't have to worry though about confidential posts being directed to a client or a contractor. Only those within your company can see your udpates. Client, contractors and other outsiders are meant for a community, an altogether different group from your own company.

Check this out:


Pretty interesting huh?

I haven't completely immersed myself in this tool but the idea is quite compelling & revolutionary, especially if you're a part of large company that wants to stay as tight and as open as possible. I'm not sure if they'll be able to steal some of the thunder from Facebook but this seems quite an amazing tool to communicate with anyone.

Unless of course, you count out emails.