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 … Read more
Rapportive Down? Try Accompany for Gmail
Rapportive has been a sourcing best friend for many recruiters and sourcers alike. For those of you who don’t use it, Rapportive is a Gmail plugin that … Read more
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 … Read more
Rules for Contacting a Candidate
Give it a Google, and you’ll find article after article on the rules for conducting yourself in an interview – as a candidate. But a good impression … Read more
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 … Read more
The Email Recruiting: Battle Plan a Digital Era Email Strategy- Part 3
The purpose of this series is to illustrate how to double your email recruiting results. Your battle plan is the foundational strategy for the battle of … Read more
The Email Recruiting Battle Plan: How Does Your Target Audience Think? – Part 2
Our goal of this series of articles is to illustrate how to double your email recruiting results. The first installment of the email recruiting campaign … Read more
The Email Recruiting Battle Plan: A Digital Era Email Strategy – Part 1
Put on your marketing hat. Think like a marketer that happens to work in talent acquisition. This new model takes inbound recruiting to the next level. … Read more
Combining Common Sourcing Tools to Create a Sourcing Solution – Part 4
Many tools come and go, but some have become very reliable in our efforts to better source talent. Sourcers are keen on the advantages of sourcing tools, … Read more
Check Yourself – Common Sourcing and Candidate Outreach Mistakes
Today we are not going to repeat the well-known rules of Boolean search or to teach you to use these commands. We are hoping that you understand Boolean … Read more
How to Find Candidate Contact Information – Back to Basics
In the digital age, we recruiting professionals have become a little spoiled by all of the tools available to us. We now have fancy extensions and apps … Read more
New to Sourcing? This Article Will Help.
So finally you have decided that you want to make a career in sourcing. Congratulations, you have selected one of the most exciting and rewarding careers. … Read more
The Email Recruiting Campaign: The Inbox is the Battlefield in the Digital War for Talent
Three seconds. Count them out. One thousand one! One thousand two! One thousand three! I have Three seconds to entice you to read my email. Have I … Read more
Why Candidates Are Ignoring Your Emails
As a recruiter or a sourcer, do you ever wonder about methods to get qualified candidates to respond to your messages? In today’s competitive candidate … Read more
When Is the Best Time to Contact a Candidate?
I recently did a study to see if I had a change in response based on the day or time that I contacted candidates. Should I reach out to candidates between … Read more
A Step by Step Guide on How to Personalize an Email
I’ve been getting spammed by a vendor who starts every email “Hi Deepak” and continues to tell me why I should meet with them. But my name isn’t Deepak. … Read more
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 … Read more
LinkedIn Continues Its Upgrades – Introduces a Smarter Way to Message
LinkedIn continues to implement changes to its website. Today, the professional networking juggernaut announced an overhaul to its evolving messaging … Read more
2 Friends, a Few Cocktails, and 10 Years of Sourcing History – Reminiscing the Early Days of SourceCon
I remember SourceCon 2007 like it was yesterday. Yet, here we are, nearly ten years later, taking a look back at when the magic all began. Everyone that … Read more
5 Rules For Contacting Sourced Candidates
It seems, at times, that those of us in the recruiting profession can be slow to catch on to trends or common sense norms. It’s not something that is … Read more