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
Setting up a Global Agile Sourcing Team – Part 1
Introducing the Sourcing Function and Splitting Functions In this series of articles, I will come back to the presentation I delivered at SourceCon in … Read more
I’m a Tech Sourcer Learning to Code
You don’t need to know how to code to be an outstanding sourcer. Not knowing how to code won’t stop you from being able to dig into dev communities to find … Read more
The Lazification of Recruiting
When LinkedIn was founded at the end of 2002, it revolutionized the staffing industry. Touted as a professional social site, it very soon became the go-to … Read more
No One Goes to School to Be a Recruiter, Right?
Have you been a part of this conversation before? “So, when did you become a recruiter?” “Well, I started in a (…normal person role…) when the recruiting … Read more
How to Assess a Sourcer
Recruiters and sourcers are crucial for finding and attracting talented employees. A skilled recruiter/sourcer could fill an open role twice as fast as the … Read more
Would You Invest in Tech Over Talent?
Many managers are trying to fix their sourcing and recruitment primarily with new tools that appear on the market, such as AI and machine learning. Some of … Read more
We Got Sourced – the Do’s and Don’t to Keep Innovators
SourceCon is a conference stocked full of energy, innovation, and an amazing group of friends. Don’t miss it! A major “win” is the people you meet … Read more
A Deep Dive Into Sourcing on Reddit – Part 3
As previously mentioned, Reddit presents a wealth of talent communities, but the user anonymity component creates a challenge. The real question is how do … Read more
The Evolution of the Candidate Funnel: Diamond Recruiting
Recently, experts have been saying that the marketing funnel is dead. When it comes to recruiting, sourcing and talent acquisition, we couldn’t agree more. … Read more
Nobody Goes to School to Be a Recruiter
Ever met anyone who majored in recruiting? Who used to say, “I want to be a recruiter when I grow up.”? How crazy is that, considering when I just searched … Read more
The Importance of Value Add Metrics
Time to fill, cost per hire we are all familiar with the “standard” recruiting metrics but have you ever considered highlighting your value to the … Read more
What Separates the Best Talent Sourcers from the Rest?
This question is often asked on many different recruiting groups on Facebook. How do I become better at talent sourcing? Of course, it’s good to highlight … Read more
5:30 AM at #SourceCon
It’s 5:30 AM on Monday on the first day of whatever time zone this SourceCon might be located and I’m walking the halls of the event. The venue looks so … Read more
A Different Reason for Appreciating #SourceCon
Not many people have attended more SourceCons than I have. I had the honor of presenting at the very first one in 2007 and many since. And the further … Read more
The Wonderful World Of Chrome Extensions – Volume 15
SourceCon is pleased to partner with the Dean Da Costa, the human encyclopedia for all things “tool-related,” to produce a series of e-books into the … Read more
SeekOut Sourcing Assistant Looks to Differentiate Its Chrome Extension With Export Functionality, Candidate Recommendations
There’s no shortage of Chrome extensions that help recruiters extract profile data from sources such as LinkedIn. Nymeria, AmazingHiring, WebClipDrop … Read more
A Recruiter’s Worst Enemy
The worst enemy of any recruiter or sourcer is not the candidate, hiring manager or competitor. Not even time is our biggest enemy. The worst enemy of … Read more
How to Explain to Your Friends and Family That You’re a Sourcer
“So, what do you do?” is one of the first questions you will hear in every conversation with your relatives, friends you haven’t seen for a long time or … Read more
We’ve Created a Monster – Bad Recruiting
I read recently in a random article that there were 6,900 open jobs within Talent Acquisition in the United States currently. Wow. For the people that … Read more