The year 2018 has come and gone, and it’s been an interesting year here at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. We’ve shifted gears, changed the status quo, and become much more dynamic in recruiting and sourcing. We’ve gone from the “what is…
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The Job Market For Sourcers
Many companies are looking to build out internal sourcing teams strategically aligned within the organization due to the value sourcers bring to an organization. We will dive further into this in the next article “The Sourcing Impact on the Business,”…
Metasearch Engines: Efficient Searching in a Centralized Location
Metasearch engines or aggregators are great tools used to search other search engines’ data with results from the internet. Metasearch engines have many advantages over singe-search engines, as they can retrieve more results with the same amount of exertion. Yippy…
Moving From an Individual Sourcer to a Sourcing Leader
A few months ago, I achieved a goal I’ve been working towards my entire professional life since I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University back in 2007. I was given the opportunity to serve in a leadership role in the human…
The Art vs Science of Sourcing and AI
In my previous SourceCon article, I wrote on parts of the recruiting process needed a “human touch” and which were fully automatable (or able to be handled by an admin of some type). Let’s delve a little deeper into each…
Lusha vs. Nymeria
Lusha and Nymeria are two favorite sourcing tools that aid us in finding and locating candidates and their contact information on the web. They both excel in establishing contact information for hard to find candidates, with Lusha focusing on candidates…
Elevating the Sourcing Game (Zangief Style) With the Scraper Warehouse
I was digging around Reddit the other day looking (okay I was building a CSE to extract profiles), and I came across this nerdy article about video games. There’s been some trolling on how many fighting games (like Street Fighter,…
How Can a Sourcer Disrupt Talent Acquisition?
Disruption can either make or break a process, a company, or even an entire industry. It can be little or small. However, the impact can be felt wide and far. Depending on what the disruption is and what the cause…
Everything I Learned About Sourcing, I Learned From the Movie Boiler Room
One of the very first movies I loved as a young adolescent was the movie Boiler Room. This movie tells the tale of a 1990s stock trader loosely based on Jordan Belfort featuring a young Vin Diesel and the lead…
Recruit Like a Project Manager
A day in the life of a recruiter. Where to begin is difficult sometimes. Emails, voicemails, new requisitions, discovery meetings with the managers, scheduling interviews, getting feedback from managers, following up with candidates, creating job offers and extending offer letters,…
Why I’m Not Replying to You
Last week I was thinking about Steve Levy. Now I know what you are thinking: “We all think about Steve from time to time, nothing special Sjamilla!” I know, but this time it was something that had Steve said in…
Dedicated Sourcer Seeking New, Lovable Search Engine
I know this isn’t Match.com, but I’ve had it with my current relationship. Google just isn’t as loveable as it used to be, and I need some new, fresh search results. I need a search engine that listens and gives…
#SourceCon Presents – The Wonderful World Of Chrome Extensions – Volume 19
There has been a high demand for sourcing tools and extensions. Many sourcing tools come and go, yet the market is undoubtedly hot for an extension that enables us to better communicate with candidates. SourceCon is pleased to partner with the Dean Da…
Hello, I Am a Sourcer and I Am Worth It
The world of cyclical hiring is a rollercoaster of emotions, pain, and confusion only akin to buying a house in the United States. Oh, and marriage; however I have no experience in that arena. I do have experience in looking…
New Techniques on How to Source Candidates on WordPress
Did you know that 30% of the top 10 million websites are powered by WordPress? This information comes from recent data collected by W3Techs. WordPress is a free and open-source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. Because WordPress…
The Candidates Are in Control: The New Age of Infinite Recruitment Marketing
SourceCon Atlanta delivered great insights into the changing nature of our industry. If you missed it, you should know that one of the underlying themes was “recruitment marketing is coming.” We are living in a time of unprecedented job advertising….
You Don’t Need to Code to Source With A.I.
Are you intimidated by all this talk of digital transformation and artificial intelligence implementation? Do you feel like you don’t have the tech-savvy or coding knowledge to get started? In the world of recruiting, we’re often faced with too many…
You Are Destroying Recruiting
This is the sense I get when reading so many articles or LinkedIn posts. Recruiters, especially new ones, are evil. They are lower than car salespeople, worse than the political campaign calls and just a wee bit better than the…
We Got Sourced – the Do’s and Don’t to Keep Innovators
SourceCon is a conference stocked full of energy, innovation, and an amazing group of friends. Don’t miss it! A major “win” is the people you meet and talk with and spark new friendships with people like Erin Mathew. We’ve talked about…
Are You Really Listening?
When we sit in face-to-face conversations with others, whether it’s a friend, your child, your spouse, or teammate; how frequently are you thinking about nothing else other than the words that are coming out of the individual’s mouth? Probably not too often. You…