We quietly ran a contest this week on sourcecon.com to gather a small group of individuals who will be competing against each other online for a … Read more
Find Your Target Audience Where They Gather
Last week, I looked out the window in my home office and noticed a spider had spun a web just outside my window. I found this interesting since it … Read more
Conducting a Quality Search: Let Keywords Be Your Guide
That title is kind of a ‘duh’, isn’t it? But it’s amazing how often developing a good list of keywords, and then putting them to … Read more
HotJobs Joins Monster For $225 Million
HotJobs officially became part of Monster on Tuesday, completing the $225 million purchase announced last February. The acquisition — and arguably its most … Read more
The Yahoo! / Microsoft Search Alliance
Yesterday, Yahoo! Sr. VP Search Products, Shashi Seth, posted a note on Yahoo!’s search blog about the Yahoo!-Microsoft search alliance that’s … Read more
QR Codes and Sourcing – Is It Social?
A cool new technology that has gained popularity over the last year is the QR code. A QR, or “Quick Response”, code is a matrix barcode (or … Read more
Facebook Launches ‘Places’
We wrote an article yesterday on location-based services, and a new one has just been added to the mix: Facebook yesterday announced the launch of its … Read more
Is There Life After Twitter?
(Editor’s note: we originally posted this on The Fordyce Letter but felt it was applicable to recruiting researchers and sourcers as well. Enjoy!) … Read more
Location, Location, Location!
LBS (Location-Based Services) are the new ‘black’ when it comes to shiny new sourcing tools. Everyone (including me!) talks about how we can … Read more
The Good-Fast-Cheap Model – A Job Aide to Better Decision-Making
The Situation You are a researcher or sourcer and you need to convince your boss to make a change. So, you ask yourself . . . How can I convince the … Read more