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.