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 the word “recruiter” in people on LinkedIn, I had over…
Talent Management
Take a Seat at the Table
Ok, so you’ve finally got a seat at the table, but your seat feels slightly small. Maybe, you’re sitting in for your manager or subbing in for a senior colleague. This could be a fantastic opportunity to impact and influence….
The Sourcing Mentors; There Are More Than You Think
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people. – John C. Maxwell I will honestly say that I read the SourceCon website every weekday. It’s an excellent source of information…
Use a Mentor to Find Your Next Sourcing Job
When looking for a new position as a new sourcer, eventually the point will come when you need some help and some guidance from someone who has been there and done that. You will seek advice on how to interview,…
8 Signs You Are Burning Out
It doesn’t matter if you are working as a freelancer, for a small startup or big corporation. Most people live hectic lifestyles, enduring high levels of stress, working overtime, meeting tight deadlines, and so on. Well, no matter how sturdy…
How to Interview a Sourcer
If you have ever run a sourcing team or been asked to build one you know that sourcing for your own team can be the most daunting of all of the purple squirrel hunts you have been on. So as…
6 Ways to Grow Your Intern Talent Pipeline
University recruiting is becoming more competitive than ever. Companies are on the hunt for top-tier talent that can integrate into their organization and ultimately onboard full-time after graduation. While Indeed reported that employers are increasing their open intern positions in…
How Personas Change Sourcing Outcomes
It’s really intimidating to walk into a room full of people you don’t know. We’ve all had that moment of panic, scanning the room for any semi-familiar face and praying it’ll work. Just one person. I personally hate that feeling….
5 Common Sourcing Mistakes in 2018
Here in 2018, things move fast. We reach people quickly. It’s the age of instant gratification: you get a ‘like’ of your tweet or a reply to your sourcing email, and it’s an instant win. Scientists tell us our bodies…
Turning Your Intake Meeting Into a Winning Service Level Agreement – Sample Included
The past few articles I have written have focused on relationships, trust, empowering, etc. I think we spend a lot of time sharing techniques, process, etc.; as these topics are essential to building professional relationships. Having a solid S.L.A (Service…
The Interview That Never Should Have Happened
Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke’s chair. The only wrong answer is, ‘Who’s Bernanke?’ -Austan Goolsbee Recently I was sourced and solicited by a recruiter that works for…
Examining the Interview Process to Improve Candidate Experience and Employer Brand
I came across an old SHRM article yesterday titled, “Why Hiring Is Taking So Long—and What HR Can Do About It?”, As I made my way through the article, I almost cried tears of validation. As the SHRM article points out,…
How to Effectively Share Your Knowledge
Knowledge sharing is a cornerstone of human civilization. A concept as old as time, passing knowledge from generation to generation allows for stories to be remembered, lessons to be learned, and innovation to be pursued by understanding the successes and…
The Amazing Effect of “Thank You” on the Job
Happy employees are more productive than unhappy employees. That’s a no-brainer, and we all know that. Every company tries every day to create an environment to make their employees happy. They advertise it in almost every job advert, what cool…
Promoting Process Over Value and Management Over Leadership – Do You Want A Seat at The Table?
Internal Talent Acquisition (TA) has a problem. We are unconsciously incompetent. Internal TA is, in the scheme of things, a relatively new function. Given this, we have taken metrics from what we know, mainly from the agency recruitment model. This,…
Sourcing Different – The Intake Meeting
In the last article, we discussed on how to source the all mighty referral tree, with this topic we dive into one of the most critical aspects of our jobs, the intake meeting. The intake meeting is a crucial step…
How Are You Assessing Cultural Fit?
A friend of mine was recently interviewing for a sales role at a hot tech company, and, in one of the interviews, a person who would be his peer looked him up and down, in his blazer, slacks and button…
Time Management – Work-Life Balance
Time. We don’t ever have enough of it, so be critical with each second of every day as we don’t get any do-overs! Now that we have our schedules down, ability to quickly read through the resume, identify and maintain…
Hit a Wall? Secrets for Getting Unstuck
If I had a nickel for every time a recruiter told me they had “searched everywhere” for candidates and “nothing worked,” I’d have a lot of nickels. And if I had an additional nickel for every time the very same…
How Are You Today? The Lost Art of Politeness
Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31 I feel that when you are born into this world and given life, your parents sign a social contract to say that they will raise you to…