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
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 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Slap Some Lipstick on It!
Let me start by saying that for most of us in the recruiting industry we do care about finding the right person for the right role. We don’t want to find a … Read more
Your Most Important Thing
Rarely does anyone feel that they are advancing up the ranks of their current company too quickly. If you do feel this way, please let the community know … Read more
5 Bad Habits Sourcers & Recruiters Should Stop in 2017
Bad habits are unavoidable, quick to form, and slowly creep into our lives without warning. Whether you’re drinking too much coffee in the morning, biting … Read more
Invest In Your Best Sourcers
Managing a team of any size, you have a finite amount of time. You keep investing your time and energy to get the new person up and running, or another … Read more
Sourcing from Home Isn’t as Lonely as You Thought
Any extrovert who has just accepted a talent acquisition role that operates remotely will be met with this question: “You’re so social, won’t you … Read more
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 … Read more
Are You Sharing Your Best Advice?
I was fresh out of college and had just started my first recruiting job at a staffing company. There was so much to learn, and the other more tenured … Read more
How I Learned What I Know About Candidate Sourcing
Editor’s note: There are new readers discovering SourceCon all of the time. With that in mind, we run popular posts from past years on occasion to … Read more
The Sourcing Body
I am not #SourceCon. We all are. As someone who has been in sourcing for nearly a decade now, I’ve watched the function ebb and flow through … Read more
Sourcing Education: Philosophy First, Then Training
In 2010 I had the opportunity to put a sourcing workshop together for a group of local recruiters. As I began to formulate a sort of “wire frame” for my … Read more
2 Top Lessons Sourcers Can Learn From The World Of Mixed Martial Arts
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War For as long as I can … Read more
Continual Education Is Important, But Sharing What You Learn Is Crucial
Someone once told me that for every day you are at a conference, it takes one week for each day that you are there for the excitement to wear off. I was at … Read more
Acres of Recruiting Diamonds
Several years ago I read a book called Acres of Diamonds, a short book by Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister. The book, which is essentially was a speech … Read more