Forum sites can be an excellent place to find candidates that may not be “out there” on the normal job boards. Especially with niche populations, it is … Read more
Greg Hawkes is a Strategic Talent Sourcer, Speaker, Author, and Founder of the HRSourcingToolbox. He has worked as both a Technical Recruiter and Sourcing Analyst for healthcare, engineering, biotechnology, manufacturing and many other industries. He has been in the recruitment field for over 10 years, and got into heavy sourcing and headhunting back in 2012. He is an ongoing contributor to SourceCon – with topics ranging from Site Searches and CSEs, to Deep Dives andURL Sourcing. While preparing to speak at SourceCon 2017, he built the HRSourcingToolbox with a large inventory of Free Recruitment and Sourcing Tools. He has recently joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as a Strategic Sourcer and loving every minute of it! He is a huge fan of emerging technologies and Boolean Syntax and always willing to share a technique or hack to find the elusive purple squirrel.
Closing out 2018 With Lessons Learned on the Job
The year 2018 has come and gone, and it’s been an interesting year here at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. We’ve shifted gears, changed the status quo, and … Read more
Elevating the Sourcing Game (Zangief Style) With the Scraper Warehouse
I was digging around Reddit the other day looking (okay I was building a CSE to extract profiles), and I came across this nerdy article about video games. … Read more
We Got Sourced – the Do’s and Don’t to Keep Innovators
SourceCon is a conference stocked full of energy, innovation, and an amazing group of friends. Don’t miss it! A major “win” is the people you meet … Read more
Dropping the Bomb on Us Like Jim Stroud
The thing about Jim Stroud is that he’s da bomb. Like as in mind explosion. He has done it multiple times with his presentations. The way he … Read more
Web Scraping Videos to Watch Before #SourceCon Atlanta
Bret Feig and I have been talking since around May 2018. Since that time, we’ve both had new babies, posted multiple videos on YouTube about tools … Read more
6 Impossible Sourcing Tasks Before Breakfast
In 2015, I was brought into a room with about ten of my peers, and we were all told we couldn’t do something. Our jobs were being eliminated, and we … Read more
DIY Sourcing, Like Those Cheesy, Make Your Own Slime Videos, but Way Nerdier
My second grader went through a phase where she was all about watching “Do it Yourself” videos on how to make markers, crayons, and most … Read more
Last Minute Sourcing Thoughts Before Operation: Baby Drop!
It’s close to 1:00 am, my kid and pregnant wife are asleep, and I’m thinking about sourcing. Something I’ve learned about myself is that … Read more
DIY FREE Sourcing Automation Tools
WebClipDrop is a pretty cool tool by my free trial expired. SeekOut is an excellent tool, but my free trial expired. SocialList has brilliant search agents … Read more
Building the Sourcing Bridge With a Weird yet Glorious Multifaceted Animal
A sourcing stack can be a duck-billed platypus, a liger, a hippocampus (part horse part fish), or have you saying “What the duck was that?” When I started … Read more
The #SourceCon Hackathon Final Four: Sourcing Tool Decks Included!
Like the four houses of Hogwarts, we sat ready to battle for the title of Top Seeker. This wasn’t a basketball tourney; this was an intricate battle … Read more
Beth’s Story – A #SourceCon Tribe Update
One conversation, one conference, one chance. I last wrote those words when I blogged about my friend Beth’s ups and downs after falling victim to a … Read more
SourceCon Insider: Dean Da Costa Inspiring List of Tools (with a Side of Steve Levy One-Liners)
My first SourceCon, the two people on my list to meet in real life were Aaron Lintz (who helped with a noob question about Kimono), and the Tool Master, … Read more
Acronyms and Data Extraction: Adding Tool Functionality With a Kneeling Jab – A #SourceCon Royale Preview
Learn, innovate, create. These three concepts that help me build pipelines, processes, tools, and websites. Often you can take a tool or resource and find … Read more
The Sourcing Guild
Stranger Things is a Netflix Phenomenon, a dark, otherworldly adventure centered around a group of middle school kids who play Dungeons and Dragons. This … Read more
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Sourcing
In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer by the name of Deep Thought takes millions of years to answer the question of all questions, … Read more
Beth’s Story: One Conversation, One Conference, One Chance
When our healthcare roles changed suddenly in the midst of a layoff, well we were worried. I always had the impression the two sourcers on a full cycle … Read more
#SourceCon is Here! Becoming a Human Personification of Sourcing
For those of you that don’t know, Daniel Bryan was a “professional” wrestler on WWE. He’s small in stature, got a sweet beard, and the odds were always … Read more
A Sourcer’s Goodbye to Healthcare via Sourcing Toolbox
As many of you may have heard, I’m leaving the healthcare industry to join the Sourcing team at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. I know, shocker right? As … Read more