What if you took your super-sleuth skills as a Sourcer or Recruiter and put them to use in different ways other than just finding talent? Justen Baxter … Read more
Using Emojis to Find Hidden Talent
Emoji, known for their colorful forms are used in text messages to represent everyday things such as animals, feelings and activities. I like to think of … Read more
Sourcing on Twitter – A Success Story
For me, Twitter is rarely a black hole. Seriously. Because, while I don’t do a ton of sourcing these days, I do make sure to follow my clients and their … Read more
It Takes Just Five Minutes a Day
It is difficult to stand out from your competition as a recruiter or sourcer. We are continually being asked to be creative, be strategic, and connect … Read more
Story From #SourceCon: How a Tweet Has Connected a Sourcer and One of His Role-Models in Real Life
We’ve been back from SourceCon Europe for some time now, and I have to say what an event! A lot of people are opting for a digital pass when thinking about … Read more
The Age of the Social Media Influencers
Days after I published my book, Full Stack Recruiter, I started getting messages and emails from random people asking the same thing: “Can I get a free … Read more
Job Posting in a Social Media World
In today’s world, you cannot rely on one website to post a job advertisement. If you want to reach candidates, if you genuinely want to increase your … Read more
Another Tool for Finding Information on Potential Candidates on Social Media
For today’s recruiter, there can’t be enough talk about extensions and other ways to find potential candidates’ information. I mean how many tools are … Read more
#Sourcing on #Twitter Using a Simple #Hashtag #Search
I have heard from various sourcing and recruiting professionals that they think that sourcing via Twitter, can be a waste of time. Quite the contrary it … Read more
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 … Read more
Auto Posting Jobs To Twitter May Soon Be a Thing of the Past
I bet some of the earliest tweets on record peddle job opportunities. Hashtags and an API turned the volume up to 11. Then automated services blew up. … Read more
Drive Sourcing Through The Power Of Periscope
What goes through your mind when interviewing for a job? One question that I hear time and time again is, how do I know if I will fit in? What is the … Read more
How to Learn Programming – A Programmer’s Track Preview, Witchcraft Sourcing with Twitter and Ruby
I will be presenting at Sourcecon in Austin about sourcing using Bash, Ruby, Python, and R. Here is how I look on a happy day. Feel free to say hi if you … Read more
Finding Female Engineers on LinkedIn
Shout out to Jim Stroud for sparking this bit of creativity. The conversation was about finding women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & … Read more
18 Extremely Intelligent Women Sourcers Share Their Favorite Search Strings
Boolean logic will always captivate me. The art of manipulating a search string to retrieve results will never get old. Our use of Boolean commands has … Read more
The Stroudification of Artificial Intelligence – Engagement
It’s been long overdue, and also, long-in-the-works: no one has quite complemented, mimicked, or successfully copied the Jim Stroud recipe for candidate … Read more
How to Find Talent Using Twitter Search by @Sioffy (Infographic via @andyheadworth)
Unfortunately, although Twitter is now the second most popular social network to search for candidates after LinkedIn, many recruiters and sourcers still … Read more
A Recruiter’s Guide to Sourcing Twitter by @FindSouth
To recruit on Twitter the most important skills are learning how to find other users to track (stalk!), contact, and engage. As a new user, learning to do … Read more
Free Tool Friday: The Leaf Chrome Addon Gives Data About Twitter Users
Note: This is a part of the Free Tool Friday series with Dean DaCosta. Each Friday during July and August, Dean will provide a short description of one of … Read more
23 Twitter Accounts Sourcers and Recruiters Should Follow #FF #FollowFriday
In case you missed it, the SourceCon Fall agenda was posted yesterday. We’ve invited some of the top sourcing minds in the country to pack the agenda … Read more