Maureen Sharib
on Nov. 24, 2010
What are many of us telephone sourcers doing this Thanksgiving week and next?
We’re sourcing of course!
The holidays are EXCELLENT times to gather the information our customers are keen to garner.
The person you leave in charge at your front desk is likely to NOT be the one who normally answers the phone and rest assured, she’s much more likely to give away the keys to your kingdom than your regular receptionist.
Maureen Sharib
on Nov. 12, 2010
I’m always hearing recruiters say they want to be more helpful to candidates.
I wonder. I wrote the following with the idea that it might help some express some of their challenges through a third-party voice.
I’m a phone sourcer. That means I am paid to find people who hold specific titles or who are doing specific job functions inside (usually) specific companies.
I’ve been doing this a long time.
There are a few things that spell disaster for you as a job seeker.
Maureen Sharib
on Oct. 6, 2010
On Tuesday, September 28 at the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Shally Steckerl gave an interesting presentation at SourceCon, one that covered competitive intelligence.
As an example of how competitive intelligence can be gathered over the telephone, let me tell you a simple story of a job I started upon my return from the conference.
On Thursday morning, I began sourcing sales reps for a paper manufacturing company in Canada. About two hours into my efforts I was talking to a receptionist in a company that was a supplier of industrial paper products to the Canadian marketplace.
There were a few names on LinkedIn at the company, but there were no sales reps listed. There was someone listed as “sales” but no other identifying information was contained on the person’s profile.
Maureen Sharib
on Sep. 10, 2010
Is there nothing new under the sun?
Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese general. His Art of War is the oldest military treatise in the world.
He thought spies were an essential part of war — and where is Sourcecon being held in 2010?
At the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. (on September 28 and 29).
When I saw that, it made me want to go back to Sun Tzu and see if there is anything he can tell us about intelligence gathering today.
Maureen Sharib
on Jan. 22, 2010
Last week someone forwarded me an email for a company that was looking for a phone sourcer. I contacted the solicitor and offered to put it out to the network of 1600 members in the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing group and I received a grateful reply that included:
I’m really looking for a seasoned pro with 2+ years who needs minimal mentoring but can take project direction on a continuous basis – multiple times a day…for a full-time manufacturing and a part-time DoD position. Pay depends on experience – of course.
I asked what the pay was for an “old, salty sourcer” and it sounded reasonable.
I laughed ‘cause I’m an old sourcer but salty? Yeah, I s’pose that, too.
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