For those of you that don’t know, Daniel Bryan was a “professional” wrestler on WWE. He’s small in stature, got a sweet beard, and the odds were always stacked against him when he wrestled the giant stars like John Cena. Years ago…
Recruiting & Sourcing Types
Sourcing for a Call Center
In the world of high volume sourcing little compares to the needs of a call center. Call centers are a notoriously demanding segment of the customer service industry, resulting in a call center employee have the shelf life of day…
What Do You Do When Nothing Seems To Work?
You know the scenario. Your hiring manager needs a qualified slate of candidates. They escort you to your desk when you arrive at work explaining the pain they are experiencing. Or perhaps, if you work virtually as I do, there…
How to Make Your Experience at #SourceCon Austin Awesome
We are only four days from the big event. Are you ready to get the most of SourceCon? I attended THE first SourceCon in Atlanta. I am not quite certain how I heard about the event. As I recall, since…
Metrics: KPI’s for Sourcers
Sourcing is more than just finding the right candidate for the job. It’s a process – sometimes a very time-consuming one – and processes need to be assessed to make sure they are working efficiently. Here are four sourcing metrics…
High Volume Recruiting – Tools to Expedite & Execute!
The strategy has to be efficient, and the results need to be immediate. That’s the expectation in high volume recruiting. The impression of clients and technical recruiters tends to be that because you are not typically looking for highly technical…
Why Diversity Sourcing is so Hard
Promoting cultural diversity via talent acquisition has been an initiative we’re all writing into our strategic goals. We know organizations that have broadened cultural diversity have the potential to outperform competitors by 35%, creating a huge opportunity for HR to…
Spider-Man Puzzles – Hiring the Right Pieces for Your Own Team
I’ve got four awesome kids! They are ages eight, six, two, and seven months. I know, that’s a lot of kids, and let me tell you, they are a handful. But I absolutely love them. One thing I love about…
A Sourcer’s Goodbye to Healthcare via Sourcing Toolbox
As many of you may have heard, I’m leaving the healthcare industry to join the Sourcing team at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. I know, shocker right? As I exit an industry that has been so great to me, I realized I had…
Partnering with The Unorthodox Hiring Manager
Recently, my family and I bought solar panels. The experience was fantastic as the provider of the service partnered with me throughout the process, followed up, stayed close, and walked me through a variety of steps that we would experience…
Stay the Course in Sourcing
Ship Captains have always fascinated me, the effort to stay on the plan of the map, the targeted line to reach a destination and so forth, or in other words, staying the course. During a storm, a ship captain can…
I’m NOT a Great Sourcer, BUT…
I am not an expert sourcer. That feels good to say, after so many years. I’m a good sourcer, but I’m not going to be building APIs and hacking into the back end of databases this week. This isn’t because…
Are You Ready For SourceCon in September?
It is hard to believe it has been nearly six months since the last SourceCon. And the community continues to thrive. I remember my first SourceCon in 2015, and what I have since learned is that the community is as…
Finding Female Engineers on LinkedIn
Shout out to Jim Stroud for sparking this bit of creativity. The conversation was about finding women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) and we had a room full of people tossing out ideas. (It was during the first…
Don’t Lie To Me – Make Candidates Show Who They Really Are
In almost every interview, we ask, “Why are you looking?” or “Why are you looking to leave XYZ company?” What is the information that we expect to receive from this question? We can find out the story, but is it…
The Table; A SourceCon Story
The upcoming SourceCon in Austin is going to be the tenth anniversary for the team. A team that I can say that I am very proud to be part of and with a leader like Shannon to follow as she…
Combining Common Sourcing Tools to Create a Sourcing Solution – Part 6
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 Email Recruiting: Battle Plan a Digital Era Email Strategy- Part 3
The purpose of this series is to illustrate how to double your email recruiting results. Your battle plan is the foundational strategy for the battle of the inbox on the digital battlefield. To maximize the impact of your email recruiting campaigns,…
Batman’s Seven Steps for Sourcing Success
I grew up reading The Hardy Boy’s, Boxcar Children, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Batman comics, and watching Scooby Doo. On some level, it probably affected me subconsciously and drove me into the recruiting field. Something about solving mysteries, saving the…
Combining Common Sourcing Tools to Create a Sourcing Solution – Part 5
Many tools come and go, but some have become very reliable in our efforts to better source talent. Sourcers are keen on the advantages of sourcing tools, but many are still learning the power behind combining sourcing tools to achieve optimal…