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….
Corporate Sourcing
It’s Expensive to Not Provide Candidates Feedback
The recruiting process is essential for every business as it helps in finding the right talents that are going to help the company grow and be more successful. And as all business owners know, finding these talents is not an…
How to Impress the Hiring Manager
Having a healthy relationship with the hiring maker is very important to your success. Building the trust is very important to start the connection on the best note. When you master the intake meeting and show the manager you’re all…
Recruiters, You Don’t Have Time for Excuses
We all are looking for excuses, some of us just from time to time, and some of us more often than others. Recruitment is full of excuses even if we are not ready to admit it publicly. Many recruiters in…
You Don’t Need Dedicated Sourcing If You Do These Things Well
I don’t think a dedicated sourcing function has to be included in a TA organization. The reasons TA organizations hire dedicated sourcers vary, depending on the size and scope of the organization. Some bring on sourcing teams to help offload…
The War is Over
2018, the year of acquiring the best talent will once again be our primary focus. As always, talent acquisition will be on the hot seat everywhere. Locate, identify, qualify, engage and secure the top performers from the competition and do…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #1 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…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #2 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,” “jobs near me,” “teaching jobs”…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #3 Google Quietly Launches ‘Badass’ Hiring Tool For Employers
It looks like Google isn’t taking Facebook’s move into the employment space lying down. The company is quietly introducing a new product called Google Hire. Someone I know who has seen the product, but wishes to remain anonymous, thinks pretty highly of the…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #4 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. After…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #5 Can You Pass Sourcing Games?
Every true sourcer enjoys a good challenge. At times, our profession can undoubtedly become monotonous. Not every search bewilders our mind and sharpens our sourcing techniques. Crafting personalized emails to candidates was the prevailing trend in 2016. However, this approach was…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #6 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…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #7 Sourcing Tools Every Sourcer Needs In 2017
One of my favorite parts of each year is evaluating tools. My other favorite part is using them. These were some of my top tools last year, and all are either free or have free versions. Here they are in…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #8 How To Find Almost Any GitHub User’s Email Address 2.0
By now, unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years you have seen or used the Github hack to find user’s email address. If you have been living under a rock for the past few…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #9 LinkedIn Strikes Back, and Truthfully Do You Blame Them?
If you got sucker punched in the stomach what would you do? Well, LinkedIn has been hit pretty hard lately. The press has been relentless. LinkedIn Recruiter seats have been dropping like flies. Ever since Microsoft purchased LinkedIn, they are trying…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #10 Talent Sourcing In the Digital Era: The Tools of Our Trade
This article is the second installment of a four-part follow-up to Talent Sourcing in the Digital Era: Talent Sourcing is So Much More Than Boolean. In the original article, I proposed a contemporary model for Talent Sourcing. The second pillar focuses…
The Top 17 Articles of 2017: #11 How I Won The 2017 Spring SourceCon Hackathon
Warning! This article contains answers and insanely impressive sourcing tricks to the fifth installment of Sourcing Games. Viewer discretion advised. Pitched as “a late-night sourcing event… guaranteed to be a major highlight of the conference… part sourcing lab, part game…
I Can’t Keep Calm, I Got The Job! Interviewing for a Sourcing Job
Take a glimpse into the hiring manager’s world; the unemployment rate is back down to pre-recession rates of 4.4% and the demand for skilled sourcers is a very real need. Every day we go without hiring a sourcer, puts recruitment…
How to Make Your Experience at #SourceCon Austin Awesome
We are only four days from the big event. Are you ready to get the most of SourceCon? I attended THE first SourceCon in Atlanta. I am not quite certain how I heard about the event. As I recall, since…
I’m NOT a Great Sourcer, BUT…
I am not an expert sourcer. That feels good to say, after so many years. I’m a good sourcer, but I’m not going to be building APIs and hacking into the back end of databases this week. This isn’t because…