Purple Squirrels and Paranoia: the first SourceCon challenge of 2008 and how I won it.



What a trip, I won the SourceCon challenge. The reasons I did are a mix of luck, timing, help from friends, inspiration, well placed breaks, spying on what the other contestants were doing, some slight misdirection, and some skill. I think with the right mix of those components anyone of the other people participating could've won. The differences between us all were slight.



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If you are interested in a clue that could help you skip a step in the first challenge, then here you go.

First Challenge Clue

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Harry was chatting with 5 people online 15 min ago who are luck enough to get an additional 24hour head start on the rest of the competition. They are only 1/3 the way there but have the night to get a little further ahead. If you can find out who the 5 are, then they might be kind enough to give you all the clues

Harry told me he will be back same time same channel tomorrow

Good luck!

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I know many of you on Recruitingblogs last year were the most active participations in the SourceCon sourcing challenges (Particularly those OS2i Sourcers). I can not count the number of personal messages I have been receiving since SourceCon2007 in Atlanta last September asking when is the next batch of challenges coming out?



Since all you RecruitingBlog members are so special, I am here to let you know that the first challenge will go live on Monday the 10th of March at 12:00pm… Continue