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
Time Management – Candidate Conversations
Now that we have our schedule planned for the day, we have reviewed resumes and have calls scheduled with potential candidates we step into Time Management … 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
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
Spider-Man Puzzles – Hiring the Right Pieces for Your Own Team
I’ve got four awesome kids! They are ages eight, six, two, and seven months. I know, that’s a lot of kids, and let me tell you, they are a handful. But I … Read more
Refining Your Sourcing Approach
Have you ever found that search, where you feel like you, have tried everything but then need to recalibrate half-way through? Have you found yourself … Read more
Sourcing References: Mining Your Database
In my last article, titled Sourcing References, I outlined my go-to approach for using references as a source for finding candidates. In this article, I … 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
Sourcing References
One of the quickest ways to multiply the quantity of candidates for a position is to source references. I see all references as potential candidates, and I … 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
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
Sourcelon – The Soul Of Paradise
There was a song written and composed by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970 called “Big Yellow Taxi” that was originally released on her … Read more
Viral Sourcing
I recently had lunch with the owner of Gigg.com, Scott Warner. He uses creative digital media to take businesses’ social media viral. Wow! Do we need … 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
AI Counter Intelligence: Talk Track Angles And Phone Sourcing
Artificial Intelligence has taken control. Every day we wage battle against the machines, the robots, the AI. We struggle to find where we fit in, in a … Read more
Increase Candidate Engagement With MightyText
I have an addiction to be overly curious about finding new gadgets and recruiting tools. One of my recent discoveries is MightyText, which is one of my … Read more
Saying Hello To Artificial Intelligence In Phone Sourcing
What’s your standard way of opening a conversation? You know how when you call a gatekeeper and you want to go all chatty-patty on her so she goes the same … Read more
You Say Phone Sourcer – I Say Phone Screener
If you have what you think are phone sourcers working for you, chances are you don’t. What you probably have are individuals who have come into the … Read more
A Phone Sourcer’s Voice – Getting Comfortable with The Gatekeeper – Part 2 Tone and Cadence
Our voice is the most powerful business tool we possess. I won’t kid you. The internet changed my life. Twenty years ago I reached a milestone in my life. … Read more