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…
Contract Labor Searches
The Wonderful World of Search Engines
Search engines are a sourcers best friend, but how do you know when to use what search engine and what type of search to perform? A search will pull up almost anything you ask it to do as long as…
Finding Emails Sans Chrome Extensions
Sometimes when it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Sourcers have an unusual pattern with Chrome extensions and sourcing tools. We discover. We promote. We fangirl. Then when it disappears, we panic. You have to admit; we’ve all…
18 Extremely Intelligent Women Sourcers Share Their Favorite Search Strings
Boolean logic will always captivate me. The art of manipulating a search string to retrieve results will never get old. Our use of Boolean commands has certainly changed over the years. We may not be spending hours each day refining our…
How I Won The 2017 Spring SourceCon Hackathon
Warning! This article contains answers and insanely impressive sourcing tricks to the fifth installment of Sourcing Games. Viewer discretion advised. Pitched as “a late-night sourcing event… guaranteed to be a major highlight of the conference… part sourcing lab,…
Resources and Tips to Source Military and Veteran Candidates
Editor’s note: This post is part of our Source the Web series here on SourceCon. It features articles on how to mine particular online data resources from experts like Dean DaCosta. God Bless the USA, by Lee Greenwood, has long been the…
Marketing And Sourcing: A Marketing Mix Approach To Sourcing
When Seven Step RPO sourcing manager Sal Loukos starts on a new requisition, she doesn’t fire up her web browser and go to a search engine, LinkedIn, Twitter or a job board. She also doesn’t pick up her phone and…
Should Your Job Title Really Be “Phisher”?
If you are one of those recruiters that uses a keyword search resume bot in conjunction with a mass email to every result that gets returned, you are NOT a recruiter, you are not a sourcer, you are not a…
Sourcing Military Talent
One of the best places, often overlooked, when looking for candidates is the military. Often times, a client or hiring manager will have specific needs for a skill set that can be found in a military environment. Sourcing within the…
Should You Outsource Your Sourcing? 5 Tips for Success
Even though we are in an economic down cycle and unemployment in the U.S. is hovering around 10%, recruiters are still struggling to find people with the skills and experience their hiring managers are looking for. Partly this is driven…
Podcast – Meet the Speakers for #SourceCon NYC: Julia Stone
Julia Stone has been around SourceCon since its humble beginnings, and we are pleased to have her on the speaker stage for SourceCon NYC sharing how she does everything that she does. As a self-employed individual, Stone is a busy…
The Champion Challenge: A #SourceCon Case Study
Editor’s note: You may recall at the last SourceCon conference in Washington, D.C., a group of people performed a funny skit during Earl Mann’s presentation. These individuals were brand-new sourcers from Champion Recruiting Associates, and over the coming months, they…
Sourcing For Contractors
Regular Contributor post from Kristen Fife I’ve been a recruiter in the Seattle tech market for close to seven years now. I’ve worked for one of the top temporary staffing agencies, as a contractor on numerous teams at Microsoft as…
Outsourcing – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
You may or may not have attempted to outsource work in the past. You may or may not have experienced success with it if you did. The fact is, there are thousands of outsourcing companies ready to take work off…
Get Super Specialized: Sourcing For a Start-Up
I am establishing a new high tech consulting company called eLumenotion, LLC. The focus will be on SharePoint Training and Consulting. So with times like they are right now, how can one make it happen with a high tech start…