As a Recruiter and a human being, I do not have the ability to know the future of work. As amazing as that would be on a resume’, I can at least influence … Read more
Have You Sourced For Any Mortgage Underwriters Lately?
Many of us have gone through this straight forward or sometimes a frustrating routine in terms of applying for a mortgage at a bank or through a mortgage … Read more
Why Every Sourcer Should Hire for Doctors at Some Point in Their Career
I had been out of work for five months. I noticed that, while on phone interviews, I would repeat something on almost every call. While walking the … Read more
Competitive Intelligence – Aaron Lintz Style
When I submitted my last article to SourceCon, I was unaware it would relate so closely to Aaron Lintz’s then-upcoming SourceCon Digital 2.0 … Read more
Create Your Own Competitive News Feeder For Free!
You’ve likely seen RSS feeds on various websites (usually signaled by their orange and white wave icon), meaning that you can subscribe (almost … Read more
Learning to Source And Sourcing to Learn
When we get new roles as sourcers and recruiters, it can be very tempting to jump straight into building a quick search and pull some candidates back … Read more
Scraping Slack And Enriching The Candidate Data
Close your eyes. Imagine. Amsterdam. City of Sourcers. The canals, nice bars & night life. Summer heat. We’re on a mission seeking Drupal experts … Read more
Huge List of Google CSEs = Simple Data Cleaning
You’re likely familiar with frequent SourceCon contributor Dean Da Costa‘s list of Google Custom Search Engines, CSE Utopia, containing almost … Read more
How I Discovered Sourcing
When I first discovered what “sourcing” really was, I had been tasked to work on Mobile/OO Software Engineering positions for a large Big Box … Read more
Convert LIR Profiles To LinkedIn Public URLs Fast And By Batch
Hello everyone! It’s been a long time since I wrote a tech article around sourcing. I found something recently that I thought you might like. … Read more
New And Free Boolean Builder (if you don’t have LIR)
Here’s the thing…if you don’t have LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) you really cannot run regular Boolean queries on LinkedIn. Not even with a paid … Read more
Upskilling Old-School Techniques
“It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be … Read more
Couchsurfing: A Secret Sourcing Channel To Spot Foreign Language Speakers
You’ve got to search where your candidates hang out… this evergreen sourcing advice cannot be truer if you need to find foreign language speaker … Read more
Sourcing Crypto UI Designers On Dribbble
I was recently inspired by my wife, who did a UI redesign (dices, app icon and loading page) for an iPhone game. As a result, sales rose 50% and the app … Read more
LinkedIn Recruiter Spreadsheet Hack
Where is the love for LinkedIn Recruiter? As a “cool” and “modern” sourcer, I am supposed to hate corporate products. Not just … Read more
Best Sourcing Unblockers: View Paywalled Articles For Free
One of the best sources of information for passive talent and their companies are business news articles. You can learn who does what, what projects their … Read more
SourceCon Is Back For The New Year!
“In an interstellar burst, I’m back to save the universe” Welcome to the future, my friends! Your Editor for SourceCon is back and wants … Read more
Things I Can’t Live Without As A Sourcer: Part 2 - Shortcuts
In part one of this series, I shared a few of my personal favorite sourcing extensions. In this article, I will share more things I can’t live … Read more
Talent Mapping for Free
Talent mapping is the identification of a group of individuals that fit a certain job profile. The profiles can also be targeted by industry and location. … Read more
Reading Github Profiles When You’re Not An Engineer
Reading Github profiles doesn’t have to be difficult. If you are sourcing technical talent then you have at one point or another, looked at a … Read more