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Sourcing on Twitter – A Success Story
For me, Twitter is rarely a black hole. Seriously. Because, while I don’t do a ton of sourcing these days, I do make sure to follow my clients and their leaders. When there’s a conference, I follow...
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My first #SourceCon IRL Experience
Its 3 AM Monday, I’m sitting in the Westin hotel lobby (because the bar kicked us out an hour before) fueling my body with a random assortment of jalapeno cashews, cocoa powdered covered granola and...
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What’s the Plan, Stan?
My mom once said to me as a young adult to make sure to make and take a list when you go grocery shopping, and 20 years later, this process still resonates with me. It’s efficient, quick and keeps me...
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5 Non-Trivial Places to Look for IT Specialists
How often are we as recruiters limiting ourselves just with LinkedIn, overlooking other resources? In this article, I want to push the borders of sourcing and show non-trivial platforms where to look...
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Why Solving Candidate’s Superior Needs Will Increase Your Success
As recruiters, we help candidates change jobs, improve their current situation, and in the end put them in a place where they will work more motivated, earn more money and get a better career...
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#SourceCon Presents – The Wonderful World Of Chrome Extensions – Volume 27
Many sourcing tools come and go, yet the market is undoubtedly hot for any extension that enables us to better communicate with candidates. SourceCon is pleased to partner with the Dean Da Costa, the...
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Which of These 6 Thinking Hats Do You Use When Solving Problems?
Recruitment has evolved very fast in the last years, and as recruiters, we are exposed to deal with new situations that require us to provide fast solutions for candidates and hiring managers. When a...
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Utilize Those Sourcers!
Hiring Manager: “I needed these jobs filled yesterday.” Sourcer: “Right, happy to help” (Facepalm) When your Recruitment model is in constant reactive mode, how do you implore your Sourcing team to...
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Sourcing with YouTube
Google search: YouTube number of users Result: 1.3 billion users Google search: world population Result: 7.5 billion On YouTube, I searched for software engineer. The first result was A Day in the Life...
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Let’s Talk About the Dev Bootcamp Talent Pool
You don’t need to tell any IT sourcer that we’re in a tight labor market for tech talent. We feel it every day, and it seems that the number of available mid- to senior-level developers is being...
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Using TweetBeaver to Extract Data from Twitter
In the past I‘ve tried sourcing candidates from Twitter by manually looking at who followed targeted accounts. This was often tedious, not an effective use of my time, and it mostly involved a lot of...
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The Return of the Numrange
About 2 years ago or so, Google killed off their numrange operator. This, of course made us all very sad because it was such a useful operator for sourcing. You could run searches and place a lower...
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Things I can’t live without as a Sourcer: Part 1 – Extensions
TL;DR: These are (a couple of) the things that I can’t live without as a Sourcer. I have a confession to make… I am a hoarder. Not the kind that collects physical things, but I am the kind of hoarder...
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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 candidate outreach has been a heavily...
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Reading Github Profiles When You’re Not An Engineer
Reading Github profiles doesn’t have to be difficult. If you are sourcing technical talent then you have at one point or another, looked at a candidate’s Github profile and said to yourself: “Ok, now...
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Sourcing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Here is a quick-start sourcing guide for the pharmaceutical industry. We’ll cover some terms and techniques that are good to know when starting out in world of pharma. 1. INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE Before you...
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The SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge 2020
It’s time for the SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge! This is a global competition and we encourage everyone to participate. This year we’re mixing it up a bit. We’ll have 2 rounds, and the winner will...
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Lessons from Winning the Grandmaster Challenge
Here are some important lessons I’ve learned from winning last year’s Grandmaster Challenge (and why you should also try). Just a few months ago I was in a hotel room in Paris, after a hectic day of...
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When The Sourcer Is Also The People Manager
I source for a remote education company. But my responsibility for talented teachers I hire doesn’t stop at the sourcing and on-boarding process. After the teacher completes their basic “new...
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SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge Round One Winners
Whew! That was a tough round wasn’t it? Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge. The competition was fierce and the contestants were battling through! There were over 400 people who...
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