I have heard from various sourcing and recruiting professionals that they think that sourcing via Twitter, can be a waste of time. Quite the contrary it … Read more
A New GitHub Ranking Chrome Extension
I love Chrome extensions. I mean, who doesn’t? Okay, maybe you don’t use Chrome, and you prefer to browse the web through Edge or Safari. Why not? Whatever … Read more
Auto Posting Jobs To Twitter May Soon Be a Thing of the Past
I bet some of the earliest tweets on record peddle job opportunities. Hashtags and an API turned the volume up to 11. Then automated services blew up. … Read more
Drive Sourcing Through The Power Of Periscope
What goes through your mind when interviewing for a job? One question that I hear time and time again is, how do I know if I will fit in? What is the … Read more
How to Learn Programming – A Programmer’s Track Preview, Witchcraft Sourcing with Twitter and Ruby
I will be presenting at Sourcecon in Austin about sourcing using Bash, Ruby, Python, and R. Here is how I look on a happy day. Feel free to say hi if you … Read more
Finding Female Engineers on LinkedIn
Shout out to Jim Stroud for sparking this bit of creativity. The conversation was about finding women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & … Read more
18 Extremely Intelligent Women Sourcers Share Their Favorite Search Strings
Boolean logic will always captivate me. The art of manipulating a search string to retrieve results will never get old. Our use of Boolean commands has … Read more
The Stroudification of Artificial Intelligence – Engagement
It’s been long overdue, and also, long-in-the-works: no one has quite complemented, mimicked, or successfully copied the Jim Stroud recipe for candidate … Read more
How to Find Talent Using Twitter Search by @Sioffy (Infographic via @andyheadworth)
Unfortunately, although Twitter is now the second most popular social network to search for candidates after LinkedIn, many recruiters and sourcers still … Read more
A Recruiter’s Guide to Sourcing Twitter by @FindSouth
To recruit on Twitter the most important skills are learning how to find other users to track (stalk!), contact, and engage. As a new user, learning to do … Read more
Free Tool Friday: The Leaf Chrome Addon Gives Data About Twitter Users
Note: This is a part of the Free Tool Friday series with Dean DaCosta. Each Friday during July and August, Dean will provide a short description of one of … Read more
23 Twitter Accounts Sourcers and Recruiters Should Follow #FF #FollowFriday
In case you missed it, the SourceCon Fall agenda was posted yesterday. We’ve invited some of the top sourcing minds in the country to pack the agenda … Read more
eMarketer Reports Twitter User Annual Growth Rate Will Continue to Fall
A recent report from eMarketer predicts that the Twitter user growth rate will continue to fall in coming years. User growth percentage in 2012 was 49% … Read more
9 Tools and Techniques to Find Candidates on Twitter
One of my favorite twitter sourcing tools died a sudden death earlier this spring. TacticsHR, which later became TacticsCloud, was a great tool. After it … Read more
Twitter Announces New Search Filters; TacticsHR Rebrands to Tactics Cloud
Yesterday, Twitter announced the built in search functionality has been upgraded to include new search filters. Users can now conduct a keyword search for … Read more
Twitter Updates Search Features on Android and iOS
Esteban Kozak, Search and Relevance Product Manager for Twitter, announced today that the company has updated their iOS and Android apps to provide new … Read more
No Surprise, LinkedIn Dominates Social Media Sourcing
If you need any more evidence that LinkedIn is the sourcing tool of choice, then look to this morning’s Jobvite survey on social media recruiting, which … Read more
Fall #SourceCon Speakers You Should Follow On Twitter #FF
It’s Friday morning, so I thought I would send out a SourceCon Fall #FollowFriday list for sourcers and recruiters. In early October, you’ll … Read more
Video: How to Use TacticsHR to Find People on Twitter
I was recently exposed to a new tool known as TacticsHR, which takes Twitter search to a new level. The results are more accurate than I have experienced … Read more
What Recruiters Are Tweeting, Retweeting, and Reading
Ever wondered what recruiters are tweeting about, and whose tweets are most being retweeted? A company called Leadtail put together a report for us on just … Read more