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. Not surprisingly, numerous challenges need to be overcome to be successful in this fast-paced…
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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…
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 was there will have a story to tell, and I was lucky…
The Top 16 Articles of 2016: #8 – The 3 Simple Rules For Following Up With Candidates
Editors Note: For the last 16 days of December, SourceCon will be resharing our most popular articles from the year. Following up can be tricky business – you want to make sure that you’re doing absolutely everything you can to…
How To Draft Candidates Like A NFL Scout
Remember the Super Bowl? That was two months ago, but it was more memorable than some. It had a couple of intriguing stories: 1) the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl and, 2) the comeback story of Payton Manning and…
How to X-Ray Eventbrite to Find Information About People Who Attended Past Events @Aliciapriselac
Many professional development conferences, networking & alumni events, and classes are ticketed through Eventbrite, which makes it a great place to source for candidates. Eventbrite conveniently lists attendees for past events; however, the site’s search box does not let you…
In Case You Missed It: Local Geography Matters in Sourcing and Recruiting
Editor’s note: In this post (previously published on ERE), learn why talent acquisition professionals should source based on transportation routes, not just radius.
3 Old-School Sourcing and Recruiting Techniques to Revisit @bethmctheo
I wrote an article for our internal company newsletter upon returning from SourceCon 2013 in Denver, Colorado. It was my third time attending the conference, and the point where I began to see a theme emerge: Those tried-and-true techniques that…
What’s so wrong with recruiting on Facebook? by @WinningImpress
Did you know that recently Facebook had 1 billion users log in on the one day? That’s a staggering 1/3rd of all Internet users and 2/3rds of their own users all in the one place at the one time. So…
A Short rebuttal to the article- How Should Sourcers Use Facebook In A Post-Graph World?
On a recent Monday 1 billion people used Facebook. 1 BILLION…. Facebook is a VERY viable tool for sourcing. As sourcing /recruiting professionals we should know how to handcraft our Facebook searches and what tools (like FB UID Scraper Pro)…
How Should Sourcers Use Facebook in a Post-Graph World? by @RandyBailey
Last week I wrote a post about Radaris and Pipl. When I finished, I realized that using these tools became more important and necessary after Facebook removed the functionality I liked the best from Graph Search. Yet, Facebook can still be…
How to add Facebook or LinkedIn connections’ birthdays to your recruiting CRM
Note: This post represents my personal views and not necessarily those of my employer. Someone recently forwarded me a question posted about a month ago on a LinkedIn sourcing group asking if you could efficiently transfer your connections’ birthdays (on…
SourceCon Sneak Peek: Jubal Ince on How to Increase Efficiency
This September, SourceCon will kick your sourcing into high gear. Our Fundamentals Track will explore the core fundamentals, strengthen your know-how, and arm you with new skills and strategies for increased sourcing effectiveness. Watch this video to see what Jubal Ince…
My 2 Favorite Sites for Finding Contact Details by @RandyBailey
One of the biggest problems we have as talent acquisition professionals is getting contact information. At times, we may even feel this desperate… Every sourcer has their “go to” sites and tried and true techniques to complete certain tasks. Every…
The Sales That is Involved in Sourcing by @WillRecruits
We are more than half way through the year and it’s been a banner year for recruiting in the US. After years of an uncertain economy, companies are opening requisitions faster than recruiters can fill them. It seems everywhere I…
Video: Sourcing Secrets Revealed by @Kamoswin
Now is an awesome time to be a sourcer! There are literally hundreds of sourcing and recruiting tools available to make our lives easier. There are free apps and paid apps, bookmarklets and browser extensions, hacks and API’s…even good old…
Sherlock Holmes Sourcing by @Mike1178
How do you find something that can’t be seen? It’s a classic question we face every day as sourcers. As the great detective himself once said, “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people…
Don’t Forget to Practice Shooting With the Weaker Hand by @MaureenSharib
My gunslinger husband is teaching my soon-to-be/fast-approaching gunslinger status brother to shoot. On a recent practice someone in the group asked why they needed to practice “weak hand” shooting. Because it can save your life, Bob repeated to my brother…
6 Productivity Boosting (FREE) Email Tools for Sourcers and Recruiters by @sioffy
Email. No matter how many people try and tell us it’s dead, the fact of the matter is email is still a necessary part of our day-to-day lives as recruiters, and will probably continue to be for a number of…
10 New Sourcing and Internet Productivity Tool Demos by @DeanDaCosta
Sourcing tools are constantly evolving. If you include all of the web tools that weren’t actually created for sourcers and recruiters, the options are limitless and it’s difficult to stay up to date. That’s why we’re always thankful to have Dean DaCosta….