Tanja Hasan-Farm
on Oct. 28, 2011
We (Tanja and Arati) recently attended the SourceCon conference in Santa Clara, CA. Having written previously about the collaborative styles we have when working together, to fill Nike’s job openings, we definitely wanted to experience this event as a team as well. When we approached our manager about attending the conference who was supportive and said go for it!
Here are our experiences from attending SourceCon as a team.
Amybeth Hale
on Oct. 17, 2011
Jillian Snavley has built a phenomenal sourcing function at PNC Financial Services. And she has the data to prove it, as she very effectively demonstrated during her keynote presentation at SourceCon on Friday morning. This is something that sourcing leaders, practitioners, and corporate executives alike need in order to justify the very existence of a sourcing function within a company. Conference attendees were treated to a stream of useful knowledge to bring back to their individual companies to help build a case for both developing a new sourcing function as well as investing into existing ones, based on the successes shared by Snavley during her presentation.
Snavley appropriately divided her presentation, titled “Revving Up Your Sourcing Function,” into four “laps”: Building, Developing, Strategy, and Refining. Each “lap” of building PNC’s sourcing function (which was non-existent at the beginning of the process) presented challenges which were overcome by providing business cases, data and metrics, and examples of success from other areas that have led to a highly successful and very unique group of sourcers, who have earned the designation of “in-house agency” partners for various business units.
Amybeth Hale
on Oct. 13, 2011
For those of you who were unable to make it to our 2011 fall SourceCon conference, we have ya’ covered today. We are livestreaming the conference throughout the 2-day event so that those at home can get a small taste of what’s going on here live. Click on the “SourceCon 2011 Is Streaming Live Right Now… ” link above to view the livestream..
Of course, a lot of the experience of the conference is the networking that goes on in between sessions and after-hours (*cough cough AFTER DARK**) but we definitely want to share what we can with the community! We hope you’ll be able to tune in during the next couple of days to learn from some of the industry movers and shakers!
Carmen Hudson
on Oct. 4, 2011
Should SourceCon become the site of a British murder mystery, never fear. We have our own Hercule Poirot or Inspector Morse to solve the case. Irina Shamaeva, Partner and Chief Sourcer of Brain Gain Recruiting, is as persistent as a detective. We’ll get more evidence of Irina’s expertise during the paid resource panel discussion at the SourceCon conference on October 14.
Jim Schnyder
on Oct. 3, 2011
I began my pursuit of solving the second SourceCon Challenge when I saw this Facebook posting on the SourceCon page on September 7:
As I had started late (the contest began on September 1), I missed out on some of the preliminary clues, including a mouse-over title for the countdown clock on the SourceCon page that said “CiteULike.org,” which was where I would have found clues leading to the Diigo group ( “similar source” and “sourcecon2011_challenge2”). Thankfully, though, no one had discovered these clues, and I sent an email to the SourceCon editor to ask if it was too late to join in. I guess I was under the impression that if you had not participated in the first SourceCon Challenge on building Google Custom Searches that you were not able to get in the hunt. I was delighted to learn that it was not too late. I clicked on the link from the Facebook posting which led to a Diigo.com site where you were invited to join a group. Little did I know that this would begin a 12-day journey (evenings and weekends) of hunting and gathering information to solve this quest!
Amybeth Hale
on Sep. 27, 2011
On Thursday, October 13 sometime after 8pm, we’re going to party into the night like the sourcing nerds we are at Yahoo’s URLs Cafe!
The SourceCon After Dark is back and in full effect. Once an ‘unofficial’ part of the conference, it’s now become something that attendees look forward to just as much as the rest of the conference.
So just what is “SourceCon After Dark?”
Carmen Hudson
on Sep. 22, 2011
Carl Kutsmode, one of the speakers for the upcoming SourceCon conference, has quietly influenced the sourcing profession since the mid ‘90s, when he founded the Tiburon Group, an RPO firm with a reputation for developing creative sourcing strategies. Since then, Carl has continued to consult with Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries. Carl contributes to the sourcing and recruiting community as a volunteer board member of the Staffing Management Association of Greater Chicago and a non-profit organization that helps skilled immigrants find opportunities, Upwardly Global. Oh, and he writes a blog, and is working on a book for jobseekers. Where does he find the time?
Amybeth Hale
on Sep. 19, 2011
As promised, here is a video compilation from my trip to Disrupt last week in San Francisco. There were many more really interesting companies that were exhibiting at Disrupt that I simply didn’t have time to get to, but these were amongst some of the coolest. I hope you enjoy the following video.
Please check out some of the companies featured in this video. A few of them are going to be joining us in Silicon Valley in just a few short weeks for our SourceCon conference which will be taking place October 12-14!
Amybeth Hale
on Sep. 14, 2011
While at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference this week, I ran into one of our presenters for next month’s SourceCon conference happening in Santa Clara, CA. Greg Lindahl, CTO of blekko, was roaming the expo floor when I spotted him and he was kind enough to sit down and chat with me for a few moments about what blekko is and what he’s planning to share at SourceCon next month. Check out the video below.
Be sure to register for SourceCon an join us October 12-14 in Silicon Valley to learn more from Greg and the rest of the speakers. We hope to see you next month!
Amybeth Hale
on Sep. 1, 2011
It’s here. You’ve waited for it, and it’s finally here.
I’m talking about football season! What, did you think I meant something else?
Just kidding. The 2nd SourceCon Challenge of 2011 commences today — right here, right now. And like the last one, you couldn’t predict what this Challenge would be like.
So get ready — this Challenge is going to stretch you to your limits.
Welcome to SourceCon: