It happens in an instant. You get an email from your boss asking you to join a pipeline meeting. You come with your laptop and a cup of coffee expecting to … Read more
23 Industry & Candidate Insights Every Tech Recruiter NEEDS to Know
In January 2016, Stack Overflow (one of the biggest online platforms where tech professionals can ask and answer questions of each other regarding all … Read more
Meet SourceCon Spring Speaker Jason Roberts
Editor’s note: the Meet the Speakers series is designed to introduce the SourceCon audience to the speakers who will be presenting at SourceCon Atlanta in … Read more
4 Key Metrics Most Sourcers Don’t Track (But Should)
Conventional wisdom: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. And, more than just a business world cliché, there’s plenty of evidence that measured … Read more
Using Analytics to Win the War for Talent
What do the Oakland A’s, New England Patriots and New Castle United share? They’ve each applied Moneyball techniques to their respective sports. In the … Read more
What’s More Important: The Journey Or The Destination?
My dad always told me to enjoy the journey. Of course, this was always when we were on a long road trip through the middle of nowhere to somewhere that … Read more
The 80/20 Rule Of Sourcing Talent
With the extraordinary rise of web 2.0 and social media, a vast amount of talent pipelines were incidentally created. The source of your company’s hires … Read more
In A Push For More Robust Reporting, Google Analytics Adds Social Insights
How do you track how your jobs and content gets shared across different social platforms? What if you could do it all from your Google Analytics dashboard? … Read more
Five Reasons To Think Differently About Sources Of Hire
Every single time I write about sources of hire, a little red siren goes off in my head with a robotic voice saying, “WARNING: Actual results may … Read more
Cost-Per-Hire Is Now a New HR Standard
For the first time in the history of the profession, human resource practitioners now have a uniform way to measure and compare one of the oldest … Read more
A Sourcing Checkup From the Neck Up: Assessing Your Sourcing Team
Lately I’ve been getting lots of questions around assessing a sourcing team. Most leaders see this as quite a difficult task, yet its absence can … Read more
Sourcing Salary Survey: Results
The topic of sourcing compensation is a hotly contested one. It always has been, and I suspect that it always will be. There are some who feel that … Read more
The Best of SourceCon 2011, #2 — 10 Common Mistakes of Sourcing
Editor’s note: this article derived from Jennifer Hasche’s RIS presentation was the 2nd most popular article on SourceCon in 2011. It … Read more
Looking at Sourcing Through the Lens of Moneyball
In the middle of Moneyball, the movie, I thought to myself, the challenge that Brad Pitt’s character (Billy Beane) was facing reminded me of what we … Read more
Mid-Size Companies Choosing Tech Over Talent
“Technology — rather than hiring — is on the minds of most executives of mid-market companies.” So says Mid-Market Perspectives: … Read more
10 Common Mistakes of Sourcing
During her presentation on sourcing strategies that produce results this Monday at the Recruiting Innovation Summit, which took place at Facebook in Palo … Read more
High Volume Sourcing Trends: Creating a Pool, Not Sinking
Think you have a stressful sourcing job? What if you had two weeks to fill 20 positions, and then were asked to repeat that demand over and over again? … Read more
Sourcing and CRMs — An Interview with Carl Kutsmode
Carl Kutsmode, one of the speakers for the upcoming SourceCon conference, has quietly influenced the sourcing profession since the mid ‘90s, when he … Read more
Webinar: Optimizing Recruiting and Sourcing Effectiveness
Optimizing Recruiting and Sourcing Effectiveness Thursday, June 30: 2:00 PM ET Effective Sourcing augments recruiting through ingenuity by leveraging … Read more
The Sourcing Bull’s-Eye – Are You Using Your Resources or Wasting Money?
Whether or not you want to admit it, we all use some paid resources for our recruiting efforts. This could include any of the following products: job … Read more