Video outreach has a 3X higher reply rate compared to regular email. However, sending a video to every prospect or candidate takes a lot of time. The … Read more
Video Outreach: How To Get Prospects And Candidates To Reply [Part 1]
Over the past year, how many video messages did you receive? Compare this to the number of emails you received from people trying to sell you a service, … Read more
3 Ways to Refresh Your Email Outreach Strategy
Are overused phrases dominating your outreach? Data from 735,000 recruiting outreach campaigns show that 15% of prospects respond to a recruiter’s initial … Read more
In Search Of…
What Does Search Mean? Search encompasses the steps that you take to find a piece of desired information. According to a good friend of mine named Webster, … 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
Confession: I Have Way Too Much Fun Crafting Subject Lines
As a sourcers, our day to day functions of searching, scraping, and viewing profiles can get mind-numbing at times. Generating effective subject lines for … Read more
The Top 10 Email Finding Tools
Finding emails is one of the most important things we can do as sourcers. If you can’t contact them, what good is their resume? Seventy-five percent of … Read more
How to Increase Your Response Rate
You know the feeling when a candidate stubbornly stays silent? When no one replies, how do you overcome this obstacle? In a couple of past projects, I … Read more
Providing Candidates With Feedback
Have you ever found yourself in the situation that you had to wait weeks after your phone screen went dark and you did not know if you got the job or not? … Read more
Building a Consumer Persona for Sourcing
In my last SourceCon article, I talked about how to deliver an emotionally intelligent message. This article will discuss how you can pick which emotional … Read more
Use the Classic 1-2-3 Outreach Approach to Increase Your Candidate Response Rate
One of the common themes I have seen recruiting leaders such as Stacy Zapar and Shally Steckerl champion is the 1-2-3 outreach approach to increase your … Read more
How to Locate the Person Behind an Email Address
When you are searching for candidates via search engines, sometimes you will find lists of attendees that are not connected with the names. You know that … Read more
How to Deliver Emotionally Intelligent Messages
This article will dissect the impact of evoking emotions with our messages, and how to use our EQ (Emotional Quotient) to do this successfully. “We … Read more
How to Find Anyone’s Email Address & Phone Number in Under 30 Seconds
Disclaimer: At the moment, using a scraping tool or an extension on LinkedIn is not permitted, and it is a risk for your account: LinkedIn monitors some … Read more
How I Increased My Email Response Rate
Finding candidates is the first and most important aspect of a sourcers job, followed closely by contacting candidates. According to Software Advice’s … Read more
Why I’m Not Replying to You
Last week I was thinking about Steve Levy. Now I know what you are thinking: “We all think about Steve from time to time, nothing special Sjamilla!” I … Read more
To Text Candidates or Not to Text Candidates?
Al technology keeps progressing and with its progression comes more HRIS and ATS platforms. But one platform that is interesting, and is showing up often … Read more
How to Successfully Communicate With Candidates in Other Countries (Examples Included)
Successful communication with candidates seems to be one of the most significant challenges for recruiters. Contrary to what it appears, not only IT … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more