Sourcing

It’s back again and we aim to make this time bigger and better. It’s all about recruiting tools and leveraging easy to use, efficient techniques to help you uncover key hidden talent. You can’t always do it alone. Raw skill won’t always solve your challenge. Learn more here

Learn How to Relax » Does sourcing seem hard to you sometimes? I’d like to share five sourcing hints that, I hope, will make it easier, more relaxed and more… Read more

Candidates Via Facebook » Facebook recruiting for individuals who are looking for employment on a professional level is nothing new. There are many individuals who are on Facebook as well… Read more

How to Recruit Passive Candidates » We’re now working on a major survey with LinkedIn on determining the percent of its 70mm+ network that is active, passive, or somewhere in… Read more

“Out of the Box” thinking will help you Source Candidates » Ask yourself if the candidates you want to respond to your job opening might now be working for a… Read more

The social web offers a huge opportunity for companies to find referrals and uncover talent. According to comScore, 61% of all Internet users have at least one profile on a social network; and DEI Worldwide reports 60% of people are likely to use social media to pass along information.

General semantic search engines have a really hard task: making sense of very broad and very large sets of data. Many of the general semantic engines are subject for research papers and conference talks; few general semantic engines are of practical use to sourcers for now.

Some people call sourcing an art simply because they are not able to break down their own sourcing process into a series of repeatable steps, including the analytical thought processes applied. The goal is not to remove thought from the process – in fact…read it all here:

First – ADD the phrase “&cr=countryXX” to the end of any Google search URL. Second – Use a two letter country code to replace “XX” (must be capital letters) then hit Enter. – Searching for international talent? @SourceHenge breaks it down fo you here.

‘—BEGIN SOURCING GEEK CODE BLOCK — Sourcing Geeks in their own Language. It’s unique and it makes sense. What else do you need to hear? Searchologist Jim Stroud takes us on a ride here. Hold on, it’s a fst slick and Geeky road…—END SOURCING GEEK CODE BLOCK —

If it’s free, it’s for me. And free this is. Sourcing budgets have been slashed but most hiring managers really don’t care about that. What they do care about is that you can provide them with some top quality talent in a fast and efficient manner. Over the next few posts I’ll be sharing some free and low cost ways to enhance your game when sourcing. Up first, Free-For-Recruiters

Thanks for asking a great question! There are many different techniques to use here, but no one size fits all solution. I took a few moments

Here’s a quick little ditty on finding domain names for emails when you may be having problems finding the extensions. Obviously you are going to run through

I was speaking the other day to a friend of mine who happens to be a sourcer. We got into a conversation about searching on Google

Normally I only post videos that are a few minutes in length. This clip is about 53 minutes in length but it’s an outstanding recruiting panel video headed up by… Read more