Hiretual is a sourcing tool known to be a recruiter or sourcers “best friend.” Founding member Ninh Tran and co-founder Steven Jiang created it with us in mind. They will proudly tell you that “Hiretual was built by recruiters for recruiters.” Hiretual…
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Polish Facebook Groups for Recruiters to Join
Recruiting is not only sourcing and talking to candidates. It’s also knowledge sharing, helping others, participating in conferences and self-development. If you’d like to know the most important Facebook HR-related groups in Poland, here’s my subjective choice. Poland Sourcing…
New WebClipDrop Feature Lets Users Find, Export Email Addresses of LinkedIn Group Members
With all the sourcing tools out there, it’s easy to forget about WebClipDrop, the solution that launched a couple of years ago by Jobs2Web founder, Doug Berg. However, if this Chrome extension isn’t in your arsenal, maybe it should be. Launched…
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,…
The Strategy Behind Job Requisitions and Sourcing Candidates
In my previous blog, we discussed determining who needs to be involved in the hiring process and assuring they are aligned with the companies hiring goals. What next? The job requisitions. There is no perfect job description; no one size…
A #SourceCon Budapest Preview – I Asked 40 Developers How They Feel About the Messages They receive
SPOILER ALERT, it ain’t pretty. The good the bad and the ugly When Shannon Pritchett asked me to be a SourceCon Budapest speaker I knew directly that I wanted to speak about something I’m passionate about: creative and personal outreaches. In my role…
Four Strategies for Sourcing Top Talent
LinkedIn provides an excellent pool of candidates, but many recruiters are missing out on a separate group of qualified candidates because their process is lacking creativity. In other cases, the tech stack that recruitment teams are using to uncover top…
The Conspiracy Theory on Recruiting Tools
Finding the perfect candidate is completely exhausting. People who don’t recruit don’t understand the steps it takes a recruiter to find a perfect candidate and turn them into a perfect hire. It’s mind numbing, Not only does the recruiter have…
Finding a Job as a Newer Sourcer
I recently found myself in a very similar situation to many candidates I have worked with in the past, finding a new job. As recruiters and sourcers, we can quickly become accustomed to the rollercoaster ride of the employment market….
Cultivating Positive Relationships in Recruiting
Emotions are all around us in the office; after all, we are human right? I think we as professionals tend to take on the world and forget that as much as we are expected to connect with strangers through varies…
#SourceCon Presents – The Wonderful World Of Chrome Extensions – Volume 14
It’s evident that most recruiters and sourcers have a love affair with sourcing tools. Why wouldn’t we enjoy a shortcut or a little assistance in finding information faster? There has been a high demand for sourcing tools and extensions. Many…
Is Facebook’s Breach a Lens to Reexamine LinkedIn?
With daily revelations about Facebook, and our data (and I use that term loosely), and the nuances of constitutes privacy on the aforementioned social network, do we ever stop and think about our relationship with LinkedIn. I’m not talking about…
How Telling a Great Story Makes Such a Huge Impact
Maybe you work for a company that has an impressive brand name recognition, and the whole world wants to work there. Perhaps you work for a company in your city that has most people you cold call pick up the…
Sourcers, Recruiters, and Hybrids
Over the years been to many conferences, meetups, and happy hours to count on the people who I have called my tribe. The people that I have touched and have touched me both emotionally and educationally are astonishing to me…
This Should Be Your Sourcing Mantra: The Third Time’s a Charm
Here’s a new sourcing takeaway that every recruiter, sourcer, and talent management pro needs to keep in mind: The Third Time’s a Charm. That’s one of the findings that jumped out at me from a new study from Lever, the recruiting software…
SourceCon Launches Its First Ever Technology Advisory Committee
Technology has always been a massive component of our profession. Sourcers and recruiters are incredibly passionate about technology. Technology has become one of the most talked about topics at our conferences on our website. It undoubtedly drives our profession as…
10 Must Have Google Sheets Add-ons For Sourcers and Recruiters
SourceCon is proud to present the ten must have Google Sheet Add-ons for sourcers and recruiters. YAMM This powerful add-on allows you to create a personalized, mass email campaigns without accessing candidates’ spam folder. Track open/reply rate, do follow-ups based…
How The Top Polish Sourcers Search For Candidates Outside of LinkedIn
The truth is that if sourcing is one of your tasks at work, you need to be creative. When it comes to searching developers, LinkedIn is very often not enough. What’s interesting, I see more and more developers asking what…
The Amazing Effect of “Thank You” on the Job
Happy employees are more productive than unhappy employees. That’s a no-brainer, and we all know that. Every company tries every day to create an environment to make their employees happy. They advertise it in almost every job advert, what cool…
Thinking like a Navy Seal Sourcer
Does the idea of making cold calls give you a pit in the bottom of your stomach give you the chills? Do you worry about how people will react if you email them at work? How do you motivate yourself…