Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, Purple Squireel Sessions.

First up Angie Verros- Band Mates Wanted. In this session, Angie talks about attracting top talent and the war for talent. She talks about first impressions, messaging, keeping it real, being unique, and more. TOOLS; Canned responses, and Clinch.

Next up is Tangie Pettis – were in…

Truck driving is a job that can be suitable for people who are calm and who can focus for extended stretches of time. If you’re a recruiter who wants to find capable truck drivers, you need to look for professionals who are licensed and qualified. Hiring high-quality truck drivers is all about paying attention to the details.

Understand Truck Driver Certifications and…

If you work at a recruiting agency, the following Boolean Strings would be useful for generating new business.

1) Find people who have recently started new jobs:

site:linkedin.com…

Whenever we take on a new employee, we all aim to keep them for the long run and provide them with a bright future. We want to give employees the freedom to control how they work and the autonomy they deserve, especially for employees with many years of experience.

However, what happens if this autonomy starts to fade? Or worse yet, was…

There are more than twelve industry-based recruitment methods which differ completely from all ends. The process of recruitment can hold crucial importance in case of each organization and even more when it comes to the type of businesses they carry out. Well, most of the company follows certain hiring process and keeps the best analyzed on the running list. But there are also procedures that are often personalized by today’s industrialists and even established in order to meet the exact set…

You and I constantly hear the comment that our organization human capital assets are no longer engaged. Dale Carnegie Institute in a recent survey states that among the 1,500 employees, only 29% are fully engaged and 26% are disengaged. Almost half (45%) are partially engaged. One of…

One of the biggest trends in recruiting over the past few years has been the use of Facebook to attract and convert talent. This practice even got its own…

Writing your first CV or updating an old one probably feels like a daunting task that will take hours or even days to complete.

There is a massive amount of advice you can find about writing CVs, whether it’s how to make your CV stand out or five different templates that will get you an interview. We’re spoilt for choice online – but this can make it even more…

As recruiters, our ultimate goal is to help companies source the best talent to fill their open positions. While technology has sophisticated the avenues we can take to find and secure these persons for the task, it doesn’t change the fact that at the end of the day, we’re responsible for making those two puzzle pieces fit seamlessly…

Building a great team is not easy.  There are no shortcuts.  Recruiting plans tend to be more fly by the seat of your pants in nature.  I need this, get it for me now.

A great recruiting plan focuses on continuously finding the best talent you can for all of the roles you need to fill.  If you can’t be patient on a given role, you may have to settle.  But overall, the effort needs to be sustained and resilient.  Top talent doesn’t always move easily and doesn’t always move now. …

Back before the oil price crash there were a lot of engineering companies and consultancies that offered engineering services for the standard rate to engineer + 50% overhead cost + 15% profit margin. They didn’t construct or install anything, just focussing on engineering deliverables. These were the source of a lot of good and…

How to become a successful recruiter?

Perhaps this is the most searched question by the HR community on different search engines. The fight to hire the best and full the open positions keeps an HR on his toes for sure. No doubt HR’s face new…

There’s that word again. Whatever you read on your way to professional development, the experience is invoked first. It names our current economy, defines our mutual goal, and heralds the change. In relation to employees, it’s just as crucial as when attached to a customer. The experience calls for customer satisfaction to evolve into customer success, prompting a…

Today’s youth culture believes in the online trend of the job hunt and leaves their resumes with ample amount of hope and expectations. The career-oriented bunch of bright intellectuals takes exceptionally sincere when it comes to a standard and quality long-term career graph. Well, the option of courses is extending…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, Programmers Sessions.

First up Chris Comrie Hot to Build Community to get Candidates. Lots of talk about Social Sites such as; Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest etc. TOOLS; AWS, Linkedin Helper, Dux Soup, Follow Liker, Facebook Auto Finder. Six steps to build communities. 1-Build Customer Avatars, 2-Establish…

The world's demographic is changing rapidly. In fact, studies show that the Millennial generation is expected to outnumber baby boomers as early as next…