There are surprising similarities between sourcing and the game of football. You might be thinking, “How can sourcing for a candidate be like playing football?” Football is a game of inches, and a football player must avoid being stopped to…
Steve Mostyn
Steven Mostyn
How To Build A High-Performance Sourcing Department – Part 6 Technology Evaluation
Sourcing is one of the most technologically advanced disciplines within the recruitment and HR space. It is essential that a sourcing department does on-going technology evaluations to keep pace with new innovations in the industry. Nikki Kemp, a recruitment marketing…
How To Build A High-Performance Sourcing Department – Part 5 Leading by Example
Sourcing requires a skill set that includes expertise in a variety of areas; such as cold calling, SEO, branding, social media and technology. Although sourcing requires this varied skill set, all too often, sourcing functions are led by recruitment or human…
How to Build a High-Performance Sourcing Department – Part 4 Rewarding Performance
Nothing motivates high-performance more than rewarding success. In order for a sourcer to feel truly validated, some type of reward is needed. The renown psychologist David McClelland states, in his Achievement Motivation Theory, that people are more likely to be…
How to Build a High-Performance Sourcing Department – Part 3 Training
As sourcing is always evolving, the training and development of a sourcer are essential for achieving and maintaining a high-performance level. It is crucial for sourcing managers, talent acquisition leaders, and HR executives to provide on-going sourcing training to ensure…
How to Build a High Performance Sourcing Department – Part 2 Analytics
To truly build a high-performance sourcing department, analytics must be employed to determine how a sourcing team is performing and how to make improvements. According to analytics guru Bruce Schwan, the Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition Deployment and Analytics at…
How to Build a High-Performance Sourcing Department – Part 1 Hire High-Performance Sourcers
In my over 16+ years of experience in sourcing, I have built successful sourcing models in corporate, RPO, and agency organizations. These successful sourcing models have spanned multiple industries, such as financial services, technology, consulting, and health care. During this…
On a Scale of 1-10 How Likely Are You To Text a Nurse?
One of the biggest challenges recruiters and sourcers face in recruiting registered nurses is that nurses are very hard to get a hold of. Most nurses do not work at a desk and lack access to a personal email account…
Return on Time (ROT) – The Difference between Average Recruiters and Advanced Experts
A very important but largely overlooked stat in sourcing is return on time (ROT). Many areas in recruiting/sourcing are judged by time, such as time to fill. Return on time is the average hours a recruiter or sourcer takes to get…
Get More RN Candidates Without Spending A Dime
Over the years there have been countless waves of hot candidate markets in various sectors. Some of these waves have included the dot com boom of the late 90’s and the financial services boom of the mid 2000’s. None of…