Diversity and Inclusion is the hot topic of conversation for more and more companies these days. The importance of attracting a diverse candidate pool has become a mainstream conversation. Diversity doesn’t just mean age, gender, disabilities, veteran status anymore. Diversity…
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Tech Sourcing Deep Dive: Sourcing via CodePen
The world wide web is a fantastic place of endless resources that you as a sourcer can use. Github, StackOverflow, Hacker News, AngelList are popular places to find people, and we often read about them in blogs. But what about…
How to Successfully Communicate With Candidates in Other Countries (Examples Included)
Successful communication with candidates seems to be one of the most significant challenges for recruiters. Contrary to what it appears, not only IT recruiters face this issue. This problem concerns Polish market as well as the Western countries. The saying…
Creativity in Sourcing
Sourcing is a difficult task. Often plan A, plan B and not even plan C bring the expected results. That’s why persistence and creativity are sourcers’ most crucial characteristics. It doesn’t mean that creating a sourcing process is a wrong…
Microsoft Reportedly Acquires GitHub
It has been a weekend of gossip and speculation, but it appears Microsoft and GitHub have agreed to an acquisition and the arrangement could be announced as early as Monday, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. GitHub attracts over 27 million software developers with…
Your Local #SourceCon Chapter – a Community Expands to Local Reach
“If you build it, he will come.” Field of Dreams was always a favorite movie of mine, and this quote is referring to the baseball field a farmer built out in the middle of an open prairie was referring to…
If You Want to Save Time Sourcing, Then Read This!
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” What is the number one thing ever recruiter/sourcer wishes they had? What if I told you I could give you that one thing? No, it isn’t a magic ball…
Using Your Profile to Attract Candidates
There has been quite the conversation about company branding in our industry and how this is helping drive candidates into the process. Why Coca-Cola or IBM need a branding team is beyond me, I am pretty sure they are well…
Here We Go Again – LinkedIn Updates Its User Agreement
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Defining DevOps Culture and Using It to Better Source Candidates
Are you a sourcer struggling with filling DevOps positions? If yes, let’s learn a bit about DevOps, and hopefully, by the end of this article, you will have some new creative ideas to tackle this beast. Let’s begin with the…
Recruit From Your Inbox with Google Hire – A Product Review
I was recently at SourceCon learning about new tools, spending time with friends, and eating great food. You know me I love a good meal. One of the nights we were having dinner the conversation turned to applicant tracking systems….
Utilizing Your Preexisting LinkedIn Database
A new req opens, and you need to find people. Where do you go first? You probably hop on LinkedIn Recruiter or Indeed and start a new search. I bet you aren’t searching your first-degree connections on LinkedIn, though. Why…
Connectifier Attempts A Comeback and LinkedIn Updates Its Terms of Service
On March 8th LinkedIn announced that LinkedIn Recruiter users would now have full access to Connectifier at no additional charge. It appears this was also the case before this announcement, but LinkedIn wasn’t pushing the tool as prevalently before this time….
Phone a Friend from LinkedIn Recruiter
Playing with LinkedIn today I stumbled on a helpful link to a feature that does not currently exist. Until they take this down you see for yourself from this link: https://www.linkedin.com/help/recruiter/api/hopscotch/84766 “Need a faster response? Contact candidates by phone. To…