Listening to the old library, the song One Tribe came on, and after being at #SourceConATL last night, it made me smile.
One tribe, one time, one planet, one race
Its all one blood, don’t care about your face
The color of your eye
Or the tone of your skin
Don’t care where you are
Don’t care where you been
‘Cause where we gonna go
Is where we wanna be
The place where the little language is unity
And the continent is called Pangea
And the main ideas are connected like a sphere
I know that they were talking about much bigger issues than Talent Acquisition, but really it still fits. The group that was at the meetup last night was made up of all different races, genders, ages, religions, and backgrounds. We were all there with a common goal: To learn and share. Some of us had many years of experience, some of us were fairly new.
We had an interchange of ideas. We talked about real problems and how to solve them. We talked about new ideas, recirculated old ideas and everyone left learning something new.
There’s one tribe y’all
One tribe y’all
One tribe y’all
One tribe y’all
We are one people
Let’s catch amnesia, forget about all that evil
Forget about all that evil, that evil that they feed ya
Let’s catch amnesia, forget about all that evil
That evil that they feed ya
Remember that we’re one people
We are one people
The feeling of a tribe was strong. It was the first meeting for the group here in Atlanta, and I went home last night with the biggest smile on my face. I can’t wait for the next one and if you have a meetup in your area, find it, go to it, and don’t be afraid to participate. If you don’t have one, email your SourceCon editor to find out how you can start one.
One love, one blood, one people
One heart, one beat, we equal
Connected like the internet
United that’s how we do
Lets break walls, so we see through
Let love and peace lead you
We could overcome the complication cause we need to
Help each other, make these changes
Brother, sister, rearrange this
The way I’m thinking that we can change this bad condition
Wait, use you mind and not your greed
Let’s connect and then proceed
This is something I believe
We are one, we’re all just people
Forget about the negatives and start focusing on the positives. Share your knowledge and don’t be afraid to talk to those around you. Do you know what #ILookLikeanEngineer is? What search engines besides Google do you use? If you were recruiting for a Seed Quality Manager, where would you look? Do you know how to leave a voicemail without calling someone? These are just a few of the topics that we covered last night. And that was just one meetup.
Come out to Austin this Fall or where SourceCon is this Spring or next Fall. Make time to connect with the tribe.
