One of the things I like the most about sourcing is stumbling upon peoples personal websites, their own little place on the internet. Most of the time I find these websites because they’re linked somewhere, either on their LinkedIn profile, GitHub…
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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…
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…
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. Not surprisingly, numerous challenges need to be overcome to be successful in this fast-paced…
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…