Welcome to SourceCon:
Happy Monday, SourceCon readers – yesterday afternoon, we quietly did an overhaul to the website and we proudly present to you the new SourceCon.com!
Let me walk you through some of the new and improved features on the site:
Articles tagged 'contests'
SourceCon.com Has A New Look!
by 
Amybeth Hale
on Dec. 6, 2010
Amybeth Hale
on Dec. 6, 2010
The #SourceCon Contest Winner is…
by Amybeth Hale
on Sep. 3, 2010
Amybeth Hale
on Sep. 3, 2010
…Irina Shamaeva - Executive Recruiter, Expert Sourcer, and Partner at Brain Gain Recruiting, an executive search firm that specializes in placing senior level software development, IT, and strategy consulting candidates nationwide. Irina is no stranger to the SourceCon challenges – last year she won one of the preliminary challenges leading up to the Grandmaster Challenge. You can find her at any of her community sites which include the Boolean Strings Group and Network as well as the Twitter for Sourcing and Recruiting Group. You can also connect with Irina via her Boolean Strings blog, LinkedIn, or via Twitter at @braingain.
We asked Irina to share with us how she solved the contest puzzle:
The #SourceCon Contest: Round 2, Baby!
by Amybeth Hale
on Aug. 31, 2010
Amybeth Hale
on Aug. 31, 2010
We showed you how Round 1 went down last week. On September 1st at noon Eastern, we’ll begin Round 2.
Eight people made themselves eligible to win a complimentary pass to SourceCon Fall 2010 by solving the QR code puzzle last week:
Erica Steffenson, Principal Recruiter at ev3- Charles Bretz, Sr. Sourcing Specialist at CDW Corporation
- Alaina Rivas, Sourcing Specialist at Administaff
- Irina Shamaeva, Partner at Brain Gain Recruiting
- Andrea Mitchell, Talent Strategist at Peerlo
- Andrea Holtman, Sourcer at Systems Evolution, Inc
- Megan Moore, Recruiting & Sourcing Specialist at Administaff
- Srinivas Gundelli, Sourcing and Talent Acquisition EMEA (freelancer)
Several others I heard got close but didn’t complete the puzzle all the way. Details were crucial in Round 1 of the contest, as is true with our jobs as sourcers!
While only these eight will be competing for the complimentary pass, everyone else is invited to participate in the contest. It is open to anyone who wants to ‘play’ so put on your thinking cap and see if you can solve the puzzle. You’re welcome to cheer each other on and help each other out (including the contestants) but part of the fun of the contest will be seeing who can make sense of the clues. Are you good enough to make it all the way through?
Good luck to the eight contestants above, and keep your eyes peeled at noon on Wednesday!
QR Codes and Sourcing – Is It Social?
by Amybeth Hale
on Aug. 24, 2010
Amybeth Hale
on Aug. 24, 2010
A cool new technology that has gained popularity over the last year is the QR code. A QR, or “Quick Response”, code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with camera, and smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data. Some ways you can read QR codes include:
- Downloading a QR reader app to your mobile phone
- Some free apps for the iPhone
- QR Reader for iPhone
- QR Scanner
- UpCode
- Semacode (the one I use)
- Some free apps for Android
- Some free apps for Blackberry
- Some free apps for the iPhone
- Taking a photo of a QR code with your mobile, or printing it out, and using your webcam to read the code with a desktop code reader (like bcWebCam or QReader)
Obviously, the mobile option for reading QR codes is the easiest, hence its appeal to mobile marketing. Lots of companies are starting to use these QR codes to promote their brands, share specials, and basically just heighten awareness of their products and services. But can this be leveraged for recruiting, and more importantly for us, to bolster sourcing efforts?
New Job Board FoneGigs Targets Mobile Professionals
by Amybeth Hale
on Jul. 30, 2010
Amybeth Hale
on Jul. 30, 2010
Another new job board… ‘Not again!’ I’m sure you’re thinking. But this one might be worth checking out…
Just two weeks ago, a new company called FoneGigs was quietly launched by Eric Melchor. FoneGigs is described as “an online social community and job board that focuses on the Mobile Marketing Industry.” FoneGigs reaches active job seekers via SMS, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and FoneGigs.com. There are other job boards that currently engage job seekers through these media, but one of the differences with FoneGigs lays with the man who started the company.
Eric’s not what you’d consider a ‘traditional’ job board founder; he comes from an online marketing background, having worked with agencies in New York and having also worked in Bucharest on a client initiative over the last year. Melchor started off by blogging about mobile marketing and sharing his directories of various mobile service companies, including mobile search engines, in-game ad companies, and mobile analytics. His plan through the blog and the directories was to build a solid base of interest before launching the job site, which was an end goal of his from the beginning.
