A big hurdle in the tech recruiting and sourcing world is keeping up with technology, the buzzwords, and staying up to date with the jargon. There are a lot of online glossaries and websites to source technical information. Most of…
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Are You Ready? Here Is Everything You Need To Know To Win The #SourceCon GrandMaster Challenge
It seems like yesterday when Randy Bailey beat the machine to win the 2017 SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge. Though he will keep this title for a few more months, it’s time to begin round one of our 2018 Grandmaster Challenge. The Challenge…
Sourcing in A Panic! But Why?
The latest in the LinkedIn User Agreement/Terms of Service and its anti-add-on saga has people sharing a list of add-ons that LinkedIn is supposedly monitoring. The reason I’m using apparently is that no definitive proof has been offered confirming such…
Batman’s Seven Steps for Sourcing Success
I grew up reading The Hardy Boy’s, Boxcar Children, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Batman comics, and watching Scooby Doo. On some level, it probably affected me subconsciously and drove me into the recruiting field. Something about solving mysteries, saving the…
Judge Rules in Favor of hiQ – LinkedIn Can’t Block Startup from Scraping Public Profile Data
A federal judge issued a huge setback for LinkedIn on Monday, ruling that LinkedIn can’t block the startup hiQ Labs from accessing public profile data. Many news outlets were calling this a test for the social media conglomerate in how much control…
The Wonderful World Of Chrome Extensions – Volume 7
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 month, we will release a new volume featuring eight Chrome…
Non-Sourcing Tools to Help Sourcers Who Code Excel
Data hygiene is not sexy, but it is necessary whether you are getting data from manually typed, scraped, or coded sources. Microsoft Excel’s looks have not changed in the last decade. I still consider myself a novice because no one…
How to Learn Programming for Sourcers, Part 2: Excel VBA’s Outlook Folders Emails Lifter
Several sourcers and recruiters contacted me after my last post in this series in frustration about having tried some of what I showed to grab email addresses off web pages and then got stuck at various points. Since many got…
I’m Not Paranoid, I’m Just A Sourcer
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LinkedIn Now Lets You Search Your Connections’ Connections
There is big news out of LinkedIn today, as the company has officially announced that users will soon be able to search “connections of” a particular user. This new feature appears to be accessible only for your first-degree connections on…
The Wonderful World Of Chrome Extensions – Volume 6
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 month, we will release a new volume featuring eight Chrome…
Your Jobs On Indeed Aren’t Showing Up On Google
A former Indeed executive reached out to me last week regarding Google’s recent dive into Indeed’s waters and the launching of Google for Jobs. He requested anonymity, but his message went like this: Hey Joel, Read this article yesterday and was…
Stop the Madness!
Okay Okay, I get it. LinkedIn changed its agreement, and everyone is in full on panic mode. Heck, some people are even saying no more using tools or extensions at all. Well first off slow down, take a breath and…
Competitive Intelligence from An Unusual Source
As corporate еѕрiоnаgе becomes a tаbоо tеrm, the ѕuggеѕtiоn оf competitive intelligence, competitor intelligence, аnd business intelligence is beginning tо find strong ассерtаnсе thrоughоut thе bаttlеfiеldѕ оf thе bоаrdrооmѕ, induѕtriаl complexes, аnd ѕосiаl networking еvеntѕ. Competitive intеlligеnсе is thе ѕуѕtеmаtiс…
It’s Happening – Google Launches its Jobs Search Engine
After nearly a year of speculation, a search engine optimizer in Australia capturing screenshots in the wild, and an official announcement from the CEO, Google for Jobs officially launches today. Now, when you visit Google and type in “marketing jobs,”…
Chrome Tool Crisis! Don’t Worry Sourcers, We Have Jedi Mind Tricks
LinkedIn and its user agreements, yes they make some recruiters and sourcers uneasy, but I always tell my cohorts, there is always another way to the information. LinkedIn has been on top of the professional social networking sites, but monetizing…
15 Signs You Might Be a Sourcer
1. You hack the Eventbrite site for the local soccer league and cross reference it with your child’s elementary school roster (downloaded from the school’s FTP site) to decide who to invite to your kid’s birthday party. 2….
Sourcing on Google Suites – Docs, Drive, Sheets and More
Google Docs, Sheets and other tools that Google offers their users are very popular, free and millions use them every day. They are much more than a web-based variant on traditional desktop-based office suites, like Microsoft Office. Google Apps users…
SourceCon Partners with Glenn Gutmacher To Introduce a New Track for Sourcing Pros and Super-Techies
For your colleagues who have worked in the sourcing field for a number of years and been to past SourceCons, or have yet to attend, but looked at the agenda, and said to themselves, “been there, done that,” you can…
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 certainly changed over the years. We may not be spending hours each day refining our…