You may have been the recruiter, the hiring manager, or the candidate in this horrific Oz of terrible recruitment, and we all know how it looks. Resume … Read more
SourceCon Partners with Glenn Gutmacher To Introduce a New Track for Sourcing Pros and Super-Techies
For your colleagues who have worked in the sourcing field for a number of years and been to past SourceCons, or have yet to attend, but looked at the … Read more
Sourcing References
One of the quickest ways to multiply the quantity of candidates for a position is to source references. I see all references as potential candidates, and I … Read more
Talent Sourcing in a New Reality: A Story of Human Kindness
Downsizing, restructuring, workforce reduction, realignment, these are words that pull at all emotions: anger, sadness, disappointment, fear, and feeling … Read more
Questions to Ask When You Are Interviewing a Sourcer
Interviewing sourcers is tricky, we’re all people, people. We made great first dates and knew how to engage in easy conversation. We have a sales outlook, … Read more
Google Announces New Jobs Search, Google For Jobs
Google is weeks away from launching a job search that will give jobseekers unusual control over how to filter the results to best meet their needs. Google … Read more
Building Up a Google X-Ray Search
As sourcers, there’s a lot we can do that often gets overlooked for the fanciest new tool or data scraping technology. Using the Google X-Ray technique … Read more
Github and Stack Overflow Are Great, but There Are More!
If you are reading this, you most likely have heard of the popular websites, Github and Stack Overflow. Many of you have probably even used them to source … Read more
When Is the Best Time to Contact a Candidate?
I recently did a study to see if I had a change in response based on the day or time that I contacted candidates. Should I reach out to candidates between … Read more