In the digital age, we recruiting professionals have become a little spoiled by all of the tools available to us. We now have fancy extensions and apps … Read more
New to Sourcing? This Article Will Help.
So finally you have decided that you want to make a career in sourcing. Congratulations, you have selected one of the most exciting and rewarding careers. … Read more
Sourcing References
One of the quickest ways to multiply the quantity of candidates for a position is to source references. I see all references as potential candidates, and I … 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
2 Friends, a Few Cocktails, and 10 Years of Sourcing History – Reminiscing the Early Days of SourceCon
I remember SourceCon 2007 like it was yesterday. Yet, here we are, nearly ten years later, taking a look back at when the magic all began. Everyone that … Read more
Sourcelon – The Soul Of Paradise
There was a song written and composed by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970 called “Big Yellow Taxi” that was originally released on her … Read more
Viral Sourcing
I recently had lunch with the owner of Gigg.com, Scott Warner. He uses creative digital media to take businesses’ social media viral. Wow! Do we need … Read more
5 Rules For Contacting Sourced Candidates
It seems, at times, that those of us in the recruiting profession can be slow to catch on to trends or common sense norms. It’s not something that is … Read more
AI Counter Intelligence: Talk Track Angles And Phone Sourcing
Artificial Intelligence has taken control. Every day we wage battle against the machines, the robots, the AI. We struggle to find where we fit in, in a … Read more
Increase Candidate Engagement With MightyText
I have an addiction to be overly curious about finding new gadgets and recruiting tools. One of my recent discoveries is MightyText, which is one of my … Read more
Saying Hello To Artificial Intelligence In Phone Sourcing
What’s your standard way of opening a conversation? You know how when you call a gatekeeper and you want to go all chatty-patty on her so she goes the same … Read more
You Say Phone Sourcer – I Say Phone Screener
If you have what you think are phone sourcers working for you, chances are you don’t. What you probably have are individuals who have come into the … Read more
A Phone Sourcer’s Voice – Getting Comfortable with The Gatekeeper – Part 2 Tone and Cadence
Our voice is the most powerful business tool we possess. I won’t kid you. The internet changed my life. Twenty years ago I reached a milestone in my life. … Read more
A Phone Sourcer’s Voice – Getting Comfortable with The Gatekeeper
In 2006, after a few years as a watchful community member and a group manager, I wrote my first article for ERE. The article was called Names Sourcing: … Read more
Source IT Candidates For $100 Each
A few years ago a tech friend of mine changed his phone number. An inconvenient and, in this day of permanent numbers, a somewhat unusual occurrence. The … Read more
Quick Tips to Effectively Engage Candidates on the Phone by @MaureenSharib
Her attention span has plummeted from 12 seconds (in 2000) to eight today. Your message is competing with countless others in a broad dizzying medium … Read more
How to Find a Person Who Isn’t Listed In the Directory by @MaureenSharib
One of the interesting things about healthcare is that the greater majority of healthcare workers don’t have a digital footprint that allows … Read more
Avoid These Wuss Words When You Leave a Voice Mail by @maureensharib
Leaving Voice Mail messages is always an interesting subject and one I often get asked about. People are surprised when I tell them you have to leave FIVE … Read more
Use the Phone and Ask the Right Questions to Source More Candidates
Nowadays, as technology does a lot of the sourcing (and, to some extent, the recruiting) in a lot of companies, people are no longer on the phones much … Read more
It Takes 2 to Make a Thing Go Right: Email & Phone by @MarkNexus
Right now, I wanna source right now I’m Mark T. and I came to get down My strings are internationally known But I also use a telephone I’ll give everyone a … Read more