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Teresa Colquitt

Teresa currently works at Rylem Consulting as a Sourcing Manager / Sourcing Beast where she primarily sources for technical and creative roles (developers, designers, project managers, etc.). She is passionate about learning how to hone her sourcing techniques, strategizing with other sourcers on how to best implement and utilize sourcing, and developing talent communities in order to grow the sourcing department at Rylem. She began working in the recruiting industry in 2007 at Parker Technical as a Sourcing Specialist and then left the recruiting world for a few years to work at BDA, a leading merchandising agency. She jumped back into the recruiting business at Rylem this May after a two year break. Teresa graduated from Seattle University with dual degrees in Business Administration with a concentration in Management and Humanities. She attends THE premier group for sourcing in Seattle, Sourcing7, and is always open to talking sourcing with anyone who will listen. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, playing with her pups, and being a leader in her church’s high school youth group.

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Technology & Resources

Continual Education Is Important, But Sharing What You Learn Is Crucial

by on Dec. 13, 2011

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Someone once told me that for every day you are at a conference, it takes one week for each day that you are there for the excitement to wear off. I was at SourceCon for two days; it should be gone by now, but I love what I do and am continually excited about implementing new tools for my team to help make my company more successful, so it seems to be lasting. The content, the people, and the synergy made SourceCon a conference I want to make an annual tradition. I find the challenge that we all face after attending conferences is to gather our thoughts, implement our takeaways, and share with others so that everyone else is successful.

Last week in Seattle, we had a gathering of sourcing professionals for a roundtable discussion of several conferences that took place this fall. On Tuesday night at Expedia’s HQ in Bellevue, there were about fifty people who attended and a waitlist of over twenty people who couldn’t RSVP, as it sold out in five hours. Five panelists presented highlights, takeaways, and tricks of what they learned from the various conferences they attended in the past few months, including LinkedIn Talent Connect in Las Vegas, NV, SourceCon in Santa Clara, CA, and the Recruiting Innovation Summit in Palo Alto, CA. Jeremy Langhans and James Temple spoke on Talent Connect, Candice Zaniewski and I spoke about SourceCon, and Mike Johnson discussed the Recruiting Innovation Summit.

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SourceCon, The Sourcing Function

How I Am Implementing New Skills Learned at the SourceCon Conference

by on Nov. 2, 2011

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Teresa Colquitt SCN

If you had told me five years ago that I would be in a role where I get to geek out by using mathematically based principals to do my job, stalk people online, and then convene with others who love to do the same, I wouldn’t have believed you.

But here I am, loving every day of what I get to do.

A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend SourceCon (thanks to the downloadable document on How to Get Your Boss to Let You Come to SourceCon) where I was able to meet some of the legends in our industry.

I took about twelve pages of notes in Word throughout SourceCon, hoping to learn tons of knowledge to bring back and implement. One of the wisest things that was said was during Michael Notaro’s presentation on Automation. He said that the most important thing you could do after leaving SourceCon is to pick 3-5 things you learned from SourceCon and immediately implement them into your organization.

I think the tendency when we come back from conferences is to be pumped up about what we learned and want to implement it all, but in reality, it is impossible. We can’t implement everything we learn, so it is important to hone in on a few key takeaways, disseminate the information, and put it into practice as soon as possible.

In following this sage advice, a few main themes that resonated with me were: How to Implement Sourcing into Your Organization and Gathering/Organizing/Analyzing Information.

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