The world wide web is a fantastic place of endless resources that you as a sourcer can use. Github, StackOverflow, Hacker News, AngelList are popular places to find people, and we often read about them in blogs. But what about…
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The Interview That Never Should Have Happened
Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke’s chair. The only wrong answer is, ‘Who’s Bernanke?’ -Austan Goolsbee Recently I was sourced and solicited by a recruiter that works for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sourcing Tools 101: Back to the Strategy
The landscape of sourcing and recruiting tools is crowded, and growing every day. It’s tough to keep up with new changes, and even tougher to decide what tool will actually work best for you. Everyone works differently, too, so there’s…
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…
Here’s the Real Reason Entelo Just Got $20 Million
Entelo just raised $20 million. Party time! I spoke to CEO Jon Bischke when it launched publicly in 2012 and was impressed by him and the company’s mission. As its website said back then, “Learn when talent is on the move…
Chrome Tool Crisis! Don’t Worry Sourcers, We Have Jedi Mind Tricks
LinkedIn and its user agreements, yes they make some recruiters and sourcers uneasy, but I always tell my cohorts, there is always another way to the information. LinkedIn has been on top of the professional social networking sites, but monetizing…
SourceCon Partners with Glenn Gutmacher To Introduce a New Track for Sourcing Pros and Super-Techies
For your colleagues who have worked in the sourcing field for a number of years and been to past SourceCons, or have yet to attend, but looked at the agenda, and said to themselves, “been there, done that,” you can…
Github and Stack Overflow Are Great, but There Are More!
If you are reading this, you most likely have heard of the popular websites, Github and Stack Overflow. Many of you have probably even used them to source and recruit candidates. But I have some exciting news to share; there…
GlossaryTech Expands Its Catalog for Tech Recruiters
GlossaryTech is an excellent resource for understanding and knowing tech terms. There was a great article previously posted on SourceCon by yours truly. GlossaryTech is the first online; live tech dictionary established for recruiters and sourcers. It’s kind of like Wiki…
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…
The JAVA Girl; Paying it Forward, a Recruiting Story
I often talk about paying it forward, and frankly, I believe that it may be the only thing that will keep, what is the human race, moving forward. I must say that egos perpetually seem to get in the way…
Source Like a Mad Scientist: Targeting Innovators Through Free Patent Sites
Patents can be a fantastic identifier of niche talent, particularly if you are looking for innovators or inventors. Transformational talent lives here, and pulling candidates who work on an original idea that turned into a patent can bring your candidate…
Circle of Sourcing: Top Websites To Locate Directories
At SourceCon Fall in 2016, Lori Schifman shared with our roundtable this URL to find nurses: http://www.rncentral.com/nursing-library/careplans/100_really_useful_web_sites_for_nurses/ That was a “wow” moment for the entire table! I asked how she found it and she informed me she typically looks for…
Sourcing Tips – The Science Behind The Syntax of Publication Websites
As I mentioned at SourceCon Spring, publication websites can be a tremendous resource in producing supplementary information and scientific skill sets to the forefront. Many scientists have “skeleton” LinkedIn profiles that do not include the full representation of who they are, what…