Yeah, yeah, I know, staffing agencies and headhunters can be a pain sometimes. Look, I’m not trying to offend anyone, I made many of those annoying phone calls for about three years before I joined the corporate world. I continue…
Social Sourcing & Recruiting
The Wonderful World Of Chrome Extensions – Volume 15
SourceCon is pleased to partner with the Dean Da Costa, the human encyclopedia for all things “tool-related,” to produce a series of e-books into the wonderful world of Chrome extensions. Each volume will feature eight Chrome extensions that Da Costa recommends…
Favorite Sourcing Platforms and Search Engines for Sourcers and Recruiters
Last year Kasia Borowicz organized a competition for knowledge sharing on the Poland Sourcing Community group on Facebook (which I mentioned in my previous post). One of the questions was “What are your favorite tools which make your work easier?”…
What I Learned While Working as a Full Desk Recruiter
I have no shame in admitting that running a full recruitment desk is tough. I would say that it is one of the most demanding jobs as it requires you to have so many varied skills to be successful. Full…
New Tool Alert – Build and Nurture Talent Pipelines With TopPick
Creating pipelines is a necessity for today’s staffing professional. The ability to have a set list of potential candidates for reoccurring roles is a must. That said there are very few tools that do an excellent job of allowing you…
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…
Recruit Acquires Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion
Glassdoor’s plans for an IPO have long been one of talent acquisition’s worst-kept secrets; 2018 was perhaps finally going to be the year, and the company has even been thought to be interviewing banks. Instead, it was “another staffing company…
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…
Is Your Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Leaving Someone Behind?
For all that Mary Poppins said, ‘that we should begin at the beginning’ (since it is, after all, a perfect place to start), we’re going to start out a little bit later. Let’s assume that you’ve already realized that you…
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…
Crafting Engaging Emails to Candidates
Over the past year or so I have been observing the engagement space of recruitment. Having looked up engagement in a dictionary, I saw it was affiliated with words like relationship, something together and honest. Words that I very much would…
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…
The Challenge of Recruiting for Sales Reps
I firmly believe that recruiting is something that is in your blood. You cannot be a halfhearted recruiter and be successful in the role. If you are passionate about recruitment and love to help others, you will be successful in…
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…
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…
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…