One of the best sources of information for passive talent and their companies are business news articles. You can learn who does what, what projects their … Read more
Into The Unknown – Researching An Unfamiliar Industry
During my interview for the company where I have now been employed for nine years, I was given a search to find engineers who had experience with analog … Read more
SourceCon Is Back For The New Year!
“In an interstellar burst, I’m back to save the universe” Welcome to the future, my friends! Your Editor for SourceCon is back and wants … Read more
WTF Is THAT? Staying Curious While Sourcing
I’m a curious person by nature. I’m not generally satisfied with what’s on the back flap of the book – I want to know what’s … Read more
Sourcing on Dev.to
Part I by Aaron Decker Dev.to is becoming a popular site for programmers who want to read and write technical articles. But is it useful for sourcing? Here … Read more
Things I Can’t Live Without As A Sourcer: Part 2 - Shortcuts
In part one of this series, I shared a few of my personal favorite sourcing extensions. In this article, I will share more things I can’t live … Read more
Talent Mapping for Free
Talent mapping is the identification of a group of individuals that fit a certain job profile. The profiles can also be targeted by industry and location. … Read more
Implementing the Talent Mapping: 3 Tools to Use
Talent mapping is a very important skill within the realm of modern recruitment. It is the process where a company analyzes their current and future talent … Read more
When The Sourcer Is Also The People Manager
I source for a remote education company. But my responsibility for talented teachers I hire doesn’t stop at the sourcing and on-boarding process. … Read more
Lessons from Winning the Grandmaster Challenge
Here are some important lessons I’ve learned from winning last year’s Grandmaster Challenge (and why you should also try). Just a few months … Read more
The SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge 2020
It’s time for the SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge! This is a global competition and we encourage everyone to participate. This year we’re mixing it up a … Read more
Sourcing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Here is a quick-start sourcing guide for the pharmaceutical industry. We’ll cover some terms and techniques that are good to know when starting out … Read more
Reading Github Profiles When You’re Not An Engineer
Reading Github profiles doesn’t have to be difficult. If you are sourcing technical talent then you have at one point or another, looked at a … Read more
Confession: I Have Way Too Much Fun Crafting Subject Lines
As a sourcers, our day to day functions of searching, scraping, and viewing profiles can get mind-numbing at times. Generating effective subject lines for … Read more
Things I can’t live without as a Sourcer: Part 1 – Extensions
TL;DR: These are (a couple of) the things that I can’t live without as a Sourcer. I have a confession to make… I am a hoarder. Not the kind that … Read more
The Return of the Numrange
About 2 years ago or so, Google killed off their numrange operator. This, of course made us all very sad because it was such a useful operator for … Read more
Let’s Talk About the Dev Bootcamp Talent Pool
You don’t need to tell any IT sourcer that we’re in a tight labor market for tech talent. We feel it every day, and it seems that the number of available … Read more
Sourcing with YouTube
Google search: YouTube number of users Result: 1.3 billion users Google search: world population Result: 7.5 billion On YouTube, I searched for software … Read more
Utilize Those Sourcers!
Hiring Manager: “I needed these jobs filled yesterday.” Sourcer: “Right, happy to help” (Facepalm) When your Recruitment model is in constant reactive … Read more
Which of These 6 Thinking Hats Do You Use When Solving Problems?
Recruitment has evolved very fast in the last years, and as recruiters, we are exposed to deal with new situations that require us to provide fast … Read more