Editor’s Note: This week, SourceCon.com will be sharing a few of our favorite past posts. We’ll continue to do this through New Year’s Eve and will return … Read more
Editor’s Pick: The Sourcing Plan – Selling the Hiring Manager on Smart Sourcing Tactics
Editor’s Note: This week, SourceCon.com will be sharing a few of our favorite past posts. We’ll continue to do this through New Year’s Eve and will return … Read more
Podcast – Meet the Speakers for #SourceCon NYC: Chris Hadnagy
G.I. Joe says, “Knowing is half the battle.” Understanding this, we are very excited to have Chris Hadnagy, a cybersecurity professional and … Read more
The Champion Challenge: December 2010 Update
Editor’s note: In November the sourcers from Champion Recruiting Associates issued The Champion Challenge, a complete overhaul of their candidate … Read more
Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting, Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 in this series, I explored many of the intrinsic limitations and hidden costs of traditional candidate pipelining – sourcing, … Read more
Happy Holidays from #SourceCon
My boss is a great guy – he has given us a few days off around Christmas to celebrate with our families. But before we go, we wanted to wish each and … Read more
Podcast – Meet the Speakers for #SourceCon NYC: Katharine Robinson
We are pleased to welcome Katharine Robinson, a.k.a. “The Sourceress,” to the speaker lineup for SourceCon NYC! Robinson has really come onto … Read more
Twitter Bio Search Through Search Engines: A Comparison
For a long time now, I have been finding new ways to search on Twitter. In fact, I also tried contacting Twitter to find one reason why they do not have a … Read more
Is LinkedIn Becoming a 21st Century Job Board?
LinkedIn introduced a resume building tool a while ago that, even though it’s slick, simple to use, and creates attractive resumes, would be … Read more
Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I explored and challenged the practice of traditional candidate pipelining. Some people may have interpreted my last post on the … Read more
Podcast – Meet the Speakers for #SourceCon NYC: Shally Steckerl
Over the next several weeks leading up to SourceCon NYC (which is only about eight weeks away!) we will be bringing you quick-hit interviews with the folks … Read more
Phone Sourcing Basics
How many of us remember the days before Google, LinkedIn, and other social media sites… When sourcing was a primary function of recruiters, who … Read more
Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting, Part 1
Last year I wrote about how I learned to use Boolean search to leverage information systems to quickly source candidates, and I challenged the concept and … Read more
Would an IPO Make Sense for CareerBuilder?
Should CareerBuilder go public? A New York investment banking firm thinks so and suggests that its market value could be as high as $2 billion. In … Read more
#SourceCon NYC Speaker Roster Finalized
We are pleased and excited to announce that we have finalized the speaker roster for SourceCon NYC with the addition of HootSuite CEO, Ryan Holmes, to the … Read more
Boolean Search Does Not = Internet Search
If you read certain sourcing and recruiting blogs and discussion groups, you might get the impression that Boolean search pretty much equals Internet … Read more
SourceCon.com Has A New Look!
Happy Monday, SourceCon readers – yesterday afternoon, we quietly did an overhaul to the website and we proudly present to you the new SourceCon.com! … Read more
The Names Sourcer in 2011 & Beyond
Effectively Create and Grow a Recruiting Firm’s Web Brand Presence via the Efficient Use of the Growing List of Communication Tools When I assess … Read more
Sourcers Should Look East
With unemployment rates hovering at record highs of between 8% and 11% in North America and major European countries, coupled with sluggish economic … Read more
Why Robots Shouldn’t Replace People In Sourcing
I read an article from AdAge yesterday titled Why Robots Shouldn’t Replace People For Social Media Monitoring, by Darrell Jursa. The article is … Read more