The average sourcer or recruiter possesses a large database of contacts, whether past or present. Whether they can effectively utilize it for their own … Read more
Best Sourcing Unblockers: View Paywalled Articles For Free
One of the best sources of information for passive talent and their companies are business news articles. You can learn who does what, what projects their … Read more
Into The Unknown – Researching An Unfamiliar Industry
During my interview for the company where I have now been employed for nine years, I was given a search to find engineers who had experience with analog … Read more
Building A Sourcing Session: A SourceCon Preview
What does it take to build a successful sourcing session? For starters, it requires including the full range of people who take part in the hiring process. … Read more
SourceCon Is Back For The New Year!
“In an interstellar burst, I’m back to save the universe” Welcome to the future, my friends! Your Editor for SourceCon is back and wants … Read more
WTF Is THAT? Staying Curious While Sourcing
I’m a curious person by nature. I’m not generally satisfied with what’s on the back flap of the book – I want to know what’s … Read more
De-Stressing In 2020 For Recruiting Professionals
Can you believe this decade is almost over? 2019 was filled with many blessings and successes for me this past year. As I’m writing this article, … Read more
Sourcing on Dev.to
Part I by Aaron Decker Dev.to is becoming a popular site for programmers who want to read and write technical articles. But is it useful for sourcing? Here … Read more
Things I Can’t Live Without As A Sourcer: Part 2 - Shortcuts
In part one of this series, I shared a few of my personal favorite sourcing extensions. In this article, I will share more things I can’t live … Read more
Talent Mapping for Free
Talent mapping is the identification of a group of individuals that fit a certain job profile. The profiles can also be targeted by industry and location. … Read more
Implementing the Talent Mapping: 3 Tools to Use
Talent mapping is a very important skill within the realm of modern recruitment. It is the process where a company analyzes their current and future talent … Read more
SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge Round One Winners
Whew! That was a tough round wasn’t it? Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge. The competition was fierce and the contestants were … Read more
When The Sourcer Is Also The People Manager
I source for a remote education company. But my responsibility for talented teachers I hire doesn’t stop at the sourcing and on-boarding process. … Read more
Lessons from Winning the Grandmaster Challenge
Here are some important lessons I’ve learned from winning last year’s Grandmaster Challenge (and why you should also try). Just a few months … Read more
The SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge 2020
It’s time for the SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge! This is a global competition and we encourage everyone to participate. This year we’re mixing it up a … Read more
Sourcing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Here is a quick-start sourcing guide for the pharmaceutical industry. We’ll cover some terms and techniques that are good to know when starting out … Read more
Reading Github Profiles When You’re Not An Engineer
Reading Github profiles doesn’t have to be difficult. If you are sourcing technical talent then you have at one point or another, looked at a … Read more
Confession: I Have Way Too Much Fun Crafting Subject Lines
As a sourcers, our day to day functions of searching, scraping, and viewing profiles can get mind-numbing at times. Generating effective subject lines for … Read more
Things I can’t live without as a Sourcer: Part 1 – Extensions
TL;DR: These are (a couple of) the things that I can’t live without as a Sourcer. I have a confession to make… I am a hoarder. Not the kind that … Read more
The Return of the Numrange
About 2 years ago or so, Google killed off their numrange operator. This, of course made us all very sad because it was such a useful operator for … Read more