“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” What is the number one thing ever recruiter/sourcer wishes they had? What if I told you I could give you that one thing? No, it isn’t a magic ball…
Niche Searches
How Being an Agency Recruiter/Headhunter Makes You a Better Corporate Recruiter
Yeah, yeah, I know, staffing agencies and headhunters can be a pain sometimes. Look, I’m not trying to offend anyone, I made many of those annoying phone calls for about three years before I joined the corporate world. I continue…
Is Your Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Leaving Someone Behind?
For all that Mary Poppins said, ‘that we should begin at the beginning’ (since it is, after all, a perfect place to start), we’re going to start out a little bit later. Let’s assume that you’ve already realized that you…
Getting the Most out of Google’s [site:] Operator
People often complain that site:, by itself, is inaccurate (I’ll talk about that more at the end of the post), but the magic is in the combination of site: with other query operators. That’s why I’ve come up with two…
Perfect Hires Don’t Exist
Most companies are in search of the ‘perfect hire’ for their open roles. It’s understandable because every company requires the ‘best fit’ employees to thrive. Top achievers are the backbone of any business. Therefore, after successfully hiring these stellar candidates,…
Budget Sourcing 101: Building a Talent Pool in Github
Working at a start-up is incredible; as a recruiter/sourcer, it’s one of the most impactful positions at the company. You’re responsible for attracting and hiring great people that will make your company successful. But hiring at a start-up can also…
Defining DevOps Culture and Using It to Better Source Candidates
Are you a sourcer struggling with filling DevOps positions? If yes, let’s learn a bit about DevOps, and hopefully, by the end of this article, you will have some new creative ideas to tackle this beast. Let’s begin with the…
SourceCon Insider: Dean Da Costa Inspiring List of Tools (with a Side of Steve Levy One-Liners)
My first SourceCon, the two people on my list to meet in real life were Aaron Lintz (who helped with a noob question about Kimono), and the Tool Master, Dean Da Costa. This was way before I was writing articles,…
It’s Not About Years of Experience but About Skills
If we start reading job advertisements from various industries, we will see that the employers require experience in most of these ads. We see things like “at least five-plus years’ experience,” “ten-plus years’ experience in a similar role,” etc. In…
Comparing Top Diversity Sourcing Tools
I’ve been interested in diversity sourcing for many years now. I’ve helped build sourcing teams and have created sourcing strategies designed to address diversity challenges at several companies, including Fannie Mae, Starbucks, and Apple. Today, we have substantial evidence that…
Create a List of Attendees From a Mobile App
This is an excellent tutorial to create a list of attendees from a mobile app. If you are learning to code or you are a little bit familiar with programming, then you will enjoy this. What is the mission? Go…
Acronyms and Data Extraction: Adding Tool Functionality With a Kneeling Jab – A #SourceCon Royale Preview
Learn, innovate, create. These three concepts that help me build pipelines, processes, tools, and websites. Often you can take a tool or resource and find hidden or unrealized functionality. This goes back to video games and the days of Street…
Reverse Whois To Find Contact Information
Using reverse whois to find contact information…for research purposes 🙂 One day…I ran out of the free credits from Lusha. I wanted that email. I know it’s a Gmail. I did a quick search online but couldn’t find it. Now…
Sourcing Different Languages in Europe
As you might know, the European Union includes, at the moment, 28 countries and speaks more than 36 different languages. How we understand each other is a mystery for many other regions of the world, as the official languages of…
Sourcing for Domains and Finding Personal Websites
One of the things I like the most about sourcing is stumbling upon peoples personal websites, their own little place on the internet. Most of the time I find these websites because they’re linked somewhere, either on their LinkedIn profile, GitHub…
The Moral Dilemma of Every Sourcer – How Far Are You Willing to Go?
DISCLAIMER: All information in this article serves as examples only; the author of this article wishes to point out topics connected with data privacy and moral dilemma that most sourcers face every day. The opinions expressed here are my own…
Keep On Truckin’ – Sourcing Slang
How many of us use slang words or phrases on a daily basis without realizing it? I wondered what slang sayings relate to industries many of us recruit for on a regular basis. Here are a few and how you…
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Sourcing
In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer by the name of Deep Thought takes millions of years to answer the question of all questions, “What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?” The answer is 42,…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #4 15 Signs You Might Be a Sourcer
1. You hack the Eventbrite site for the local soccer league and cross reference it with your child’s elementary school roster (downloaded from the school’s FTP site) to decide who to invite to your kid’s birthday party. 2. After…
Combining Common Sourcing Tools to Create a Sourcing Solution – Part 12
Sourcers are keen on the advantages of sourcing tools, but many are still learning the power behind combining sourcing tools to achieve optimal success. Like in the card game Yu-Gi-Oh, you can combine tools or cards to create magic. Yu Gi…