While confusion seems to reign among recruiting leaders on how to build effective sourcing strategies, Donna Quintal at Sears Holdings Corporation has been … Read more
LinkedIn: Top 5%, Recommendations, and Endorsements
I was talking last night to a friend of mine that is just finishing up her MBA from Tepper at Carnegie Mellon, and she was asking my opinion on the value … Read more
Does Sourcing Require a Master’s Degree in Library Science? Not Any More!
I’m dating myself but in the early 90’s I found myself in graduate school pursuing a degree in Library and Information Science. At this time, there … Read more
Yep, Sourcing is Alive and Well
Recently Dr. John Sullivan wrote an article for ERE that has created quite a stir in the recruiting world. He talks about a couple of issues, but the one … Read more
Top 10 Candidate Sourcing Best Practices
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2011. Due to the timeless nature of the content, it was the most popular post of 2013. I firmly … Read more
Don’t Forget These 5 Recruiting Skills in the Social Recruiting Fervor
Recruiting, as many of us know it, has undergone a transformation in the last few years. In fact, there are recruiters coming in to the workforce now who … Read more
Sourcing: A Task Best Suited For Home or Office?
In case you missed the thousands of news stories, Yahoo announced to employees in an internal memo last week that they will be discontinue offering … Read more
You’ll Get More Referrals If You Prime the Pump This Way
Here’s a technique I’ve found to be helpful, especially when I’m in search or sourcing mode and I want to stimulate referral activity. The conventional … Read more
An Evolution of Sourcing? Why Sourcing is Only Going To Grow
It’s always tough to know what to react to as part of being an editor. People say all kinds of things on the internet about talent acquisition. My job … Read more
Playing Matchmaker at a Unique Sort of Career Fair
I know it is a little late to play matchmaker. After all, Valentine’s day was last week and I’m not usually keen on the comparison between … Read more