SMBs have had to settle for simple career sites, want ads, and limited access to job boards for sourcing tools. They could fill positions but missed relationship building with passive candidates, lacked sophisticated job board tools, and had to manually troll the social networks. But now technology and targeted marketing have leveled the playing field.

Read Grabbing Talents Attention to learn how you can take advantage of new concepts in sourcing talent, regardless of your business size.

Tips on how you can use technology to gain big advantages at a low cost are provided in Entrepreneur.coms article Recruiting Employees 2.0.

“Help Wanted” Meets “Buy it Now” from Inc.com has some great examples of using marketing techniques to boost recruiting efforts while establishing a strong employment brand.

And Harvard Business explains how you can Showcase Your Company’s Employee Experience to communicate your companys signature experience and employment value proposition.

The bottom line is that small and midsize companies can now get the same talent recruiting and sourcing advantages that large organizations enjoy. SMBs can recruit faster from a wider network of qualified candidates, build stronger relationships with active and passive jobseekers, and earn a higher return on their sourcing investments.

As an extension of Taleo Business Edition, the new Taleo Smart Sourcing solution gives SMBs email integration with our Outlook Plug-In, the job board advantages of eQuest Prophesy, FreeBug, and Advantage, and our Facebook Platform application called Now Hiring!

Now SMBs can effectively manage their candidate sourcing relationships using a quicker, wider, and more efficient sourcing process with all the technology advantages of much larger organizations with greater resources.