What Does Search Mean? Search encompasses the steps that you take to find a piece of desired information. According to a good friend of mine named Webster, … Read more
How I Discovered Sourcing
When I first discovered what “sourcing” really was, I had been tasked to work on Mobile/OO Software Engineering positions for a large Big Box … Read more
Confession: I Have Way Too Much Fun Crafting Subject Lines
As a sourcers, our day to day functions of searching, scraping, and viewing profiles can get mind-numbing at times. Generating effective subject lines for … Read more
The Top 10 Email Finding Tools
Finding emails is one of the most important things we can do as sourcers. If you can’t contact them, what good is their resume? Seventy-five percent of … Read more
How to Increase Your Response Rate
You know the feeling when a candidate stubbornly stays silent? When no one replies, how do you overcome this obstacle? In a couple of past projects, I … Read more
Providing Candidates With Feedback
Have you ever found yourself in the situation that you had to wait weeks after your phone screen went dark and you did not know if you got the job or not? … Read more
Make Your Automated Recruiting Messages Better
Last month I went on an epic vacation (yay me!) and I got to do one of my favorite things (don’t laugh): write my out-of-office message. I know people … Read more
Building a Consumer Persona for Sourcing
In my last SourceCon article, I talked about how to deliver an emotionally intelligent message. This article will discuss how you can pick which emotional … Read more
Use the Classic 1-2-3 Outreach Approach to Increase Your Candidate Response Rate
One of the common themes I have seen recruiting leaders such as Stacy Zapar and Shally Steckerl champion is the 1-2-3 outreach approach to increase your … Read more
How to Locate the Person Behind an Email Address
When you are searching for candidates via search engines, sometimes you will find lists of attendees that are not connected with the names. You know that … Read more