There are times in my life when I hate that I am right about something. Like the time I thought an employee was stealing from my store back in the day and two days later I caught them doing just…
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The Power and Importance of Storytelling in Recruitment
Since the beginning of time, we’ve told stories to share ideas, events, and knowledge. Storytelling is one of the oldest ways to get people together. Back in the days when there was no TV, internet or other perks specific to…
The Batman Sourcing Process – Part 3
Previously on the Batman Process…. What is the Batman Seven Step Process? Work by hand Write Down What You Did Find Patterns Check by Hand Translate to Code (Boolean) Run Test Cases Debug Failed Test Cases Step 1. Work by…
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…
Building the Sourcing Bridge With a Weird yet Glorious Multifaceted Animal
A sourcing stack can be a duck-billed platypus, a liger, a hippocampus (part horse part fish), or have you saying “What the duck was that?” When I started out hunting passive candidates, it was a job board focused market. I…
Maximizing Your Success at College Career Fairs
Building authentic relationships and having a genuine connection with candidates is extremely important to me as a recruiter. With the United States unemployment rate staying at a consecutive all-time low, it makes building relationships even that much more meaningful. Part of those…
Hiretual Ventures Into Candidate Engagement With Version 3.0 Launch
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…
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,…
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…
#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…
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…
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…
The Truth about Innovation in Recruitment
Innovation is one of the most important concerns of each organization and its role in the development and coordination of the market is inalienable. Innovation is also an important part of the recruitment field. Recently, we have heard a lot…
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…
Google Hire Making Moves Again – Launches Candidate Discovery in Beta
weToday, the Google Cloud team released its latest announcement to its game-changing Google Hire product that could potentially compete with cheaper and smaller applicant tracking systems. It is called candidate discovery, and it is impressive for sure. Candidate discovery is an…
A New GitHub Ranking Chrome Extension
I love Chrome extensions. I mean, who doesn’t? Okay, maybe you don’t use Chrome, and you prefer to browse the web through Edge or Safari. Why not? Whatever makes you happier. Nothing to do particularly with Chrome, what I mean…
White Hat vs Black Hat: What Sourcers Can Learn From Hackers – A #SourceCon Royale Review
SourceCon 2018, got straight to the central theme of social engineering in a style fitting to the host city of Las Vegas, Nevada. With Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds playing Jim Schnyder and Brian Mork kicked off the keynote sessions. Or…